Interrogation And Interrogation Essay

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Detention and Interrogation
Since 911, many people suspected of terrorism have been detained inside the United States. Most have been noncitizens. Under most federal laws, noncitizens can be detained for only 24 hours without being formally charged with a crime. However, the USA Patriot Act allows noncitizens suspected of terrorist activity to be detained without being formally charged with an offense for as long as it take to either prove that the detainees are not involved in terrorism or to gather enough evidence to press charges.
The book’s title, with its dry allusion to the separation of powers, does not do it justice. “Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power” represents the best account yet of what Mr. Margulies calls “a human rights debacle that will eventually take its place alongside other wartime misadventures, including the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.”
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