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Cheating Justice by Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia Cooper
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Feb 07, 2012 | ISBN 9780807003220

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“Elizabeth Holtzman, who helped bring President Nixon to justice in the Watergate hearings, now takes on the bigger, deeper and even more crucial task of investigating—and exposing—exactly how President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney started an illegal war, subverted civil liberties, human rights and the law itself, and then used the national trauma following 9/11 to cover it up. Start to read Cheating Justice, and you won’t be able to put it down.”— Gloria Steinem, co-founder Ms. Magazine, writer and feminist activist

“A passionate book grounded in law.”—Kirkus

“This book makes a vital contribution to addressing the abuses of power of the Bush administration. Unfortunately today, nearly three years after the end of the George W. Bush administration, our nation still labors under the many excesses of that era. Holtzman’s book offers a cogent and elaborate account of that time period and important insights into how we can prevent those from recurring.”—John Conyers Jr., author of The Constitution in Crisis

“George W. Bush and his administration are gone, but the wrongdoing they committed endures, exposed but unpunished. Extraordinary rendition, warrantless wiretapping, torture: we cannot live with this legacy, but neither can we seem to escape it. No one is better qualified than Elizabeth Holtzman—prosecutor, congresswoman, member of the Watergate committee—to confront this legal and moral conundrum and show the way forward. Cheating Justice, like its author, is fierce, bold, and unflinching. A powerful, necessary book.”—Mark Danner, author of Stripping Bare the Body
 
“Here at last is a book for everyone who is outraged—or just bewildered—that Bush, Cheney, and other top officials escaped prosecution for their many flagrant violations of the law. Will there really be no consequences for the men who lied us into war, compromised our civil liberties, and made ‘waterboarding’ and ‘Guantánamo’ household words? Passionately, clearly, and concisely, Elizabeth Holtzman lays out how it happened, how the Bush administration secretly sought to immunize itself from prosecution, and how we can still hold the perpetrators accountable.”—Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate
 
“Holtzman’s book indicting the Cheney-Bush administration is passionate and persuasive. Whether it will be in a court of law or a truth commission, history demands a reckoning so that future administrations don’t also routinely act above the law. When that happens, Cheating Justice will be among the bill of particulars. Going from Nixon to Bush, Liz Holtzman has been a progressive patriot dedicated to the rule of law.”—Mark Green, coauthor of The Book on Bush
 
“Elizabeth Holtzman and I were in Congress at the same time: no one I know is more vigilant in holding those in power accountable for upholding our Constitution and the justice it demands. In Cheating Justice, she recaps the incredible misdeeds of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and their team. Her cry for the rule of law to be applied to them is a cry every citizen should heed; if we don’t, our democracy’s future is in peril.”—Former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder

 

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Why We Shouldn’t Simply Move On

1) Lies That Embroiled Us in War and Occupation in Iraq
2) Wiretapping Americans
3) Crimes of Torture
4) Accountability at Home: Redressing Bush Administration Misdeeds
5) International Justice: Accountability for the Bush Team Abroad
6) What to Do: The Time Is Now

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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