Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Our detention and interrogation policies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been a disaster. This paper, delivered as a Donahue Lecture at Suffolk University Law School in February 2008, explores the dimensions and source of that disaster. It first offers a clear and intelligible narrative of the construction and implementation of executive detention and interrogation policy and then analyzes the roles played by the different branches of government and the American people in order to understand how we have ended up in our current situation.

Keywords

Detention, interrogation policy, Guantanamo, executive detention, Congress, Judicial Branch, enemy combatants, torture

Publication Title

Suffolk University Law Review

Publication Citation

42 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 1 (2008)

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