| Detention and Denial |
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Subtitle:
The Case for Candor after Guantanamo
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Book Category:
Political Science > General
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Author:
Benjamin Wittes
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 10:
0815704917
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ISBN 13:
9780815704911
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Price:
USD 22.95
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Publication Year:
2010
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Publisher Info
Brookings Institution Press. InquiryPreventive detention is a touchy subject, an easy target for eager-to-please candidates and indignant media, so public officials remain largely mum on the issue. Wittes calls for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. In Detention and Denial, he illustrates how U.S. detention policy is a tangle of obfuscation rather than a serious set of moral and legal decisions. U.S. government and security forces need clear and consistent application of their detention policies, and Americans must be better informed about them. To that end, Wittes critiques America's current muddled detention policies and sets forth a detention policy based on candor. It would set clear rules and distinguish several types of detention, based on characteristics of the detainees themselves rather than where they were captured. Congress would follow steps to "devise a coherent policy to regulate the U.S. system of detention, a system that the country cannot avoid developing."
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