| AMERICAN NUREMBERG The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes Rebecca Gordon New York: Skyhorse Publishing, April 2016 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5107-0333-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-5107-0333-0 | 215pp. | HC | $21.99 | |
| Page 34: | "...arguing that the war on terror was indeed a war, but that Geneva didn't apply to US detainees imprisoned in that war." |
| Unclear: S/B "detainees held by the US". |
| Page 39: | "Earlier that day, in a the nearby village of Solfierino..." |
| Extra article: S/B "in the nearby village". |
| Page 48: | "In other words, if the victim didn't actually die, he wasn't tortured. Any 'person of ordinary sense and understanding' knows that." |
| I'm 90 percent sure this is sarcasm, but I could wish it were more strongly expressed. |
| Page 63: | "...but by then the war was well underway." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 65: | "...or permeated with toxic chemicals like dioxin or undepleted uranium." |
| Terminology: S/B "depleted uranium". Undepleted uranium would contain the normal ratio of U-235 and is unlikely to be used in munitions. |
| Page 151: | "In fact, the CIA was also doing its own kicking." |
| Too polite: S/B "ass-kicking" to more closely match the quote at the top of page 150. |
| Page 159: | "Finally, we know almost nothing about who is being held in secret sites like the one the CIA operates jointly with Somali forces, or that JSOC may well be operating in any of the 'fifty to sixty countries' where Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told CBS News in 2001 that al Qaeda and other 'networks of terrorists' are active." |
| The author reports on page 151 that "Although President Obama ordered all the agency's black sites closed when he took office in 2009, the CIA continues to run at least one interrogation center." She documents that one site sufficiently, but provides no support for her speculation about JSOC sites. |
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