... Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) court has played a somewhat more independent role due to the aggressiveness of the Bush administration. The Removal Court followed the design of the FISA court in important respects. Like some other military tribunals, the Combat Status Review Tribunals at Guantánamo were...

.... The protesters were “processed” in chemically polluted “holding cells” hastily set up on Pier 57 by the Hudson River, known now as Guantánamo-on-the-Hudson—a procedure that normally should take at the most a few hours. Many developed alarming skin rashes from the chemical waste on the floors on which they had...

...With the book’s claim that literary work can be viewed in retrospect to have had a prophetic ability to foreshadow future events, this chapter first suggests that Kafka’s work foreshadows Guantánamo Bay’s current situation. The chapter explores Shosana Felman’s classic essay on Claude Lanzmann’s...