The least worst place : Guantanamo's first 100 days /

The least worst place : Guantanamo's first 100 days /

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Author / Creator:	Greenberg, Karen J.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subject:	Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. Prisoners of war -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. Prisoners of war -- United States. Prisoners of war. Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11193124

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ISBN:	9780199707416 0199707413 9780195371888 0195371887 9780199754113 019975411X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's preparations for this group of predominantly unimportant ne'er-do-wells were hastily thrown together, but as Karen Greenberg shows, a number of capable and honorable Marine officers tried to create a humane and just detention center. Greenberg, a leading expert on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story of the first one hundred days of Guantánamo through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies and bypass the Geneva Conventions. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture--patterns of power that would come to dominate the Bush administration's overall strategy.--From publisher description.
Other form:	Print version: Greenberg, Karen J. Least worst place. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195371888 0195371887
Standard no.:	9786611998530

Table of Contents:

World Gone Wrong
The First Team
The Void
Filling the Void
The Bad Guys First
The Petting Zoo
The Caribbean Hilton
The General and the Chaplain
Missing Pieces
A Political Animal
Towels into Turbans
Bowing Out
Postscript : the Banality of Goodness.