Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights (Hardcover)

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Combines a harrowing account of physical and psychological abuse….with a finely honed analysis. -- The Nation

David Rose lays bare the real Guantánamo. He writes beautifully about an appalling subject. -- Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights

Rose offers a substantial body of reporting in his concise book. -- Legal Affairs

The fullest account to date...Rose has filled in many of the blanks left by most journalistic accounts. -- San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description

A vivid and damning account of America's controversial interrogation camp.

Praised as a "tour-de-force deconstruction of Bush's supermax gulag" (San Diego Union Tribune) when first published, Guantánamo makes shocking allegations about the infamous U.S. detention camp in Cuba. Award-winning journalist David Rose argues that the camp not only constitutes a grotesque abuse of human rights but is also ineffective as a tool for combating terrorism.

Through firsthand research in Cuba, government documents, and dozens of interviews with guards, intelligence officials, military lawyers, and former detainees, Rose sheds light on Gitmo's ugly inner workings. He reveals that, contrary to the Bush administration's claims, the prisoners at Guantánamo are not "the hardest of the hard-core" Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men "involved in a plot to kill thousands of ordinary Americans." And he provides solid evidence that the brutal interrogations that supposedly justify the camp's existence have yielded very little useful intelligence. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: New Press (November 10, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565849574
• ISBN-13: 978-1565849570
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,462,477 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars National shame, April 13, 2005

By	TheRebis (CO USA) - See all my reviews

David Rose's book is an excellent overview of what is wrong with Bush's "War on Terror" and the methodology used to extract information from those being held at GitMo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and other prisons around the world. Through the tortured legal reasoning of the Bybee memo and subsequent twisting by John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales at the behest of Bush, we as a nation have come to the "legal black hole" of GitMo.

Mr. Rose's book shows with painful clarity the results of that kind of reasoning which is illegal and immoral on both the strategic and tactical levels. On the international level the moral and legal high ground that the United States has claimed for the previous two centuries has been wiped away due to the non-legal aborgation of treaties, conventions, and accords that the United States has signed on to and ratified by the sole decisions by one man, Bush. On the national level the legal reasoning for torture is in contravention of U.S. statutory law and ratified treaties that have the force of U.S. law. This is one of the main reasons why Bush and his officials have been twisting the both the seperation of powers doctrine in the Constitution and "war powers" acts by Congress to mean that the office of President has virtually "unlimited power" during war.

The result of this decision to use torture in contravention of both national and international law is made abundantly clear by the horrific cases in Mr. Rose's book and by the experts cited to conclude that torture methodology leads to faulty intelligence, which was the raison d'etat by Bush.

The previous reviewer has obviously not even read Mr. Rose's book because Mr. Rose lives in Great Britain.

3.0 out of 5 stars Guantanamo, May 22, 2009

By	Mark Twain - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights (Paperback)

The quality of the book was good. I ordered 2 copies and was only sent one. I e-mailed the sender and they quickly sent a second one however this should not have had to happen.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important book that everyone should read, June 15, 2006

By	D. Whitlock (New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent book. It's well-written, and well researched. It's a slim book but packed with information; slim enough to make you feel you can press it onto ,friends and family and insist they read it. I seriously considered buying several copies of it to give away such is the importance of its message. Highly recommended.