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Search - Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution, and What We Can Do about It

Cheating Justice How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law Plotted to Avoid Prosecution and What We Can Do about It
Author: Elizabeth Holtzman, Cynthia Cooper

Despite the many misdeeds of and abuses of criminal law by the Bush administration, there has been no accountability. Former U.S. representative Elizabeth Holtzman pairs with lawyer and journalist Cynthia L. Cooper to explain why we can?t ?just move on.? They lay bare how the Bush-Cheney administration broke a multitude of laws and betrayed Amer... more »ican values, and exactly why and precisely how we, the people, must bring them to justice for their crimes, their cover-ups, and their deceit.

Backed by strong evidence gleaned from ?astounding?* research, Holtzman and Cooper argue that the Bush administration not only violated various U.S. laws but also changed many laws to escape prosecution for their crimes later. The authors demonstrate how a failure to hold George W. Bush and Dick Cheney accountable would set a dangerous precedent for the future leadership of America.

Bush and Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, upending laws and breaching international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are boldly unabashed about their offenses. In his memoir, President Bush makes no apologies for his decision to start a war in Iraq, though no weapons of mass destruction, the ostensible reason for the war, were found there. And once out of office, Bush proudly said, ?Damn right,? about his approval of waterboarding, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and U.S. law. Recent revelations about the extent and depth of their crimes, catalogued in detail here, make the need for accountability imperative.

As a member of Congress and part of the committee that investigated and held hearings on the conduct of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, Elizabeth Holtzman condemns Bush?s adoption of Nixon?s claim that he acted in the interest of national security. Using Watergate-era reforms as a model, Holtzman details the steps necessary to undo the damage that the Bush-Cheney administration inflicted and explains how we can establish new protections to block future presidents from similarly abusing the law. Cheating Justice is not only a call to empower the American people, and a firm insistence that the nation?s leaders are not above the law; it is also a blueprint by one of America?s top legal minds for bringing Bush to justice and protecting the future of our democracy.

From the Hardcover edition.

ISBN-13: 9780807003381
ISBN-10: 0807003387
Publication Date: 2/5/2013
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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History >> Americas >> United States >> 21st Century
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Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Civil Rights & Liberties
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