GUANTÁNAMO AND THE ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Reviewed 8/24/2008

Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power, by Joseph Margulies
GUANTÁNAMO AND THE ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Joseph Margulies
New York: Simon & Schuster, June 2006

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-7432-8685-5
ISBN-10 0-7432-8685-5 336pp. HC $25.00

Errata

Page 50: "Guantánamo is the only U.S. military base in the world where the United States exercises complete and exclusive jurisdiction..."
  Missing word: S/B "the only foreign U.S. military base".
Page 50: "The Castro government has long characterised the U.S. presence as illegal, has ordered the United States to leave, and has refused to cash the annual rent payment of $4,085 the United States has tendered pursuant to the lease."1
  Error of fact: S/B "the monthly rent payment of $4,085".
Page 94: "As Justice Jackson warned in Youngstown, a claim to inherit 'power either has no beginning or it has no end.' "
  Word choice: S/B "inherent".
1 Castro: Cuba not cashing US Guantanamo rent checks (Reuters AlertNet): "He said only one U.S. check was ever cashed — in 1959 due to 'confusion' in the heady early days of the leftist revolution."
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