Prisoners of the Official Explanation: Popular Nonfiction Accounts of the Guant�namo Decision (original) (raw)

Journal of Human Rights, 2011

Abstract

ABSTRACT Missing from popular nonfiction treatments of the Bush administration decision to imprison captives taken in the War in Afghanistan at Guantánamo Bay are challenges to the official explanation that the prisoners were extraordinarily dangerous, presented valuable intelligence subjects, and would be tried for war crimes. This review article suggests three alternative rationales: spectacle, punishment, and the announcement of a new international order.

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