...This chapter provides a detailed timeline regarding formulations and uses of torture related to the “war on terror” beginning in September 2001 and extending to May 2010. It foregrounds the pervasive use of euphemism by the Bush administration in skirting U.S. and international laws regarding...

...The United States has not issued a formal declaration of war since the Second World War. According to Bob Woodward's account of the Bush administration's response to the September 11 attacks, in a meeting with congressional leaders on September 12, 2001, that “he did not want a declaration of war...