The terror presidency: law and judgment inside the Bush administration 9780393335330, 039333533X

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George Walker;Goldsmith
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Table of contents :
The new job --
The Commander in Chief ensnared by law --
Fear and OLC --
When lawyers make terrorism policy --
Torture and the dilemmas of Presidential lawyering --
The terror presidency.

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