Thursday, July 13, 2006

Reflections on War, Detention and Rights

Reflections on War, Detention and Rights - New York Times

GUANTÁNAMO AND THE ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
By Joseph Margulies
322 pages. Simon & Schuster. $25.

OATH BETRAYED
Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
By Steven H. Miles, M.D.
220 pages. Random House. $23.95.

In “Oath Betrayed” Dr. Steven H. Miles, an expert on medical ethics, collects evidence that “armed forces physicians, nurses and medics had been passive and active partners in the systemic neglect and abuse of prisoners” at Guantánamo, in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

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