Benjamin Wittes illustrates how U.S. detention policy is a tangle of obfuscation rather than a serious set of moral and legal decisions. Far from sharpening focus and defining clear parameters for action, it sends mixed signals, muddies the legal and military waters, and produces perverse incentives. its random operation makes a mockery of the human rights concerns that prompted the limited amount of legal scrutiny that detention has received to date.
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Brookings Institution
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9780815704911
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Benjamin Wittes
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Detention and Denial: the Case for Candour after Guantanamo