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This riveting book by one of the unsung heroes of the Watergate era shows that it is not enough to prosecute the war criminals; we must undo the elected monarchy that short-sighted Democrats and Republicans have constructed, revive checks and balances, and restore the rule of law. --Nadine Strossen, professor of law, New York Law School, and former president, American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008)--Nadine Strossen (03/19/2009) A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the subject. . . . As can be expected from an author of such distinction, Getting Away with Torture is an exceptionally well-sourced book. [The author] follows the paper trail of torture memos leading to abuses at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in meticulous detail. . . . Curbing government secrecy will be a long, often frustrating battle. . . . These depressing trends make it imperative that Pyle's book is read as widely as possible. --Z Magazine-- (08/18/2009) A study of the steps taken by the Bush Administration after 9/11 to wage its war on terrorism. The result of those steps, [the author] writes, was that the U.S. became a country that is 'no longer a constitutional government under law.' This is an unsettling book -- not to mention the disturbing photos of prisoner abuse and the self-satisfied visages of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that are contained within. Nor does he take the easy out of concluding that, with the election of Barack Obama, we have turned the page. --Amherst [MA] Bulletin-- (08/11/2009) Christopher Pyle has written a deeply documented and riveting exposure of the systemic torture policy that has discredited us among our allies and--as shown in a recent bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report--has served the terrorists as a very useful recruiting tool. Getting Away with Torture is a permanent contribution to restoring our Constitution and our moral credibility in the world. --Nat Hentoff, syndicated columnist, United Media Syndicate; senior fellow, CATO Institute; author of The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance and Living the Bill of Rights-- (03/18/2009) An exceptional study of the very deliberate steps taken after 9/11 toward unconstitutional government, a series of grave misjudgments by executive officials, Congress, the courts, and the general public. Christopher Pyle is to be commended for an unflinching condemnation of public policy that has left America weaker politically, economically, morally, and legally. --Louis Fisher, author of The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms -- (03/16/2009) Getting Away with Torture is a timely tour de force. Pyle's thought-provoking analysis of President George W. Bush's 'war on international terrorism' is as enlightening as it is disturbing. A must-read. --David M. O'Brien, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville-- (03/17/2009)

This riveting book by one of the unsung heroes of the Watergate era shows that it is not enough to prosecute the war criminals; we must undo the elected monarchy that short-sighted Democrats and Republicans have constructed, revive checks and balances, and restore the rule of law. --Nadine Strossen, professor of law, New York Law School, and former president, American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008)--Nadine Strossen (3/19/2009 12:00:00 AM) A study of the steps taken by the Bush Administration after 9/11 to wage its war on terrorism. The result of those steps, [the author] writes, was that the U.S. became a country that is 'no longer a constitutional government under law.' This is an unsettling book -- not to mention the disturbing photos of prisoner abuse and the self-satisfied visages of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that are contained within. Nor does he take the easy out of concluding that, with the election of Barack Obama, we have turned the page. --Amherst [MA] Bulletin-- Amherst [MA] Bulletin (8/11/2009 12:00:00 AM) A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the subject. . . . As can be expected from an author of such distinction, Getting Away with Torture is an exceptionally well-sourced book. [The author] follows the paper trail of torture memos leading to abuses at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in meticulous detail. . . . Curbing government secrecy will be a long, often frustrating battle. . . . These depressing trends make it imperative that Pyle's book is read as widely as possible. --Z Magazine-- Z Magazine (8/18/2009 12:00:00 AM) Getting Away with Torture is a timely tour de force. Pyle's thought-provoking analysis of President George W. Bush's 'war on international terrorism' is as enlightening as it is disturbing. A must-read. --David M. O'Brien, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville--David M. O'Brien (3/17/2009 12:00:00 AM) An exceptional study of the very deliberate steps taken after 9/11 toward unconstitutional government, a series of grave misjudgments by executive officials, Congress, the courts, and the general public. Christopher Pyle is to be commended for an unflinching condemnation of public policy that has left America weaker politically, economically, morally, and legally. --Louis Fisher, author of The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms --Louis Fisher (3/16/2009 12:00:00 AM) Christopher Pyle has written a deeply documented and riveting exposure of the systemic torture policy that has discredited us among our allies and--as shown in a recent bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report--has served the terrorists as a very useful recruiting tool. Getting Away with Torture is a permanent contribution to restoring our Constitution and our moral credibility in the world. --Nat Hentoff, syndicated columnist, United Media Syndicate; senior fellow, CATO Institute; author of The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance and Living the Bill of Rights--Nat Hentoff (3/18/2009 12:00:00 AM)

Christopher Pyle has written a deeply documented and riveting exposure of the systemic torture policy that has discredited us among our allies and--as shown in a recent bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report--has served the terrorists as a very useful recruiting tool. <i>Getting Away with Torture</i> is a permanent contribution to restoring our Constitution and our moral credibility in the world. Nat Hentoff, syndicated columnist, United Media Syndicate; senior fellow, CATO Institute; author of <i>The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance</i> and <i>Living the Bill of Rights</i>--Nat Hentoff (03/18/2009)

An exceptional study of the very deliberate steps taken after 9/11 toward unconstitutional government, a series of grave misjudgments by executive officials, Congress, the courts, and the general public. Christopher Pyle is to be commended for an unflinching condemnation of public policy that has left America weaker politically, economically, morally, and legally.

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In 1970, Christopher Pyle disclosed the military’s surveillance of civilian politics in a pair of award-winning articles. As a former captain in Army intelligence, he also recruited 125 former agents to tell what they knew about that spying to Congress, the courts, and the press. Those disclosures ended the Army’s domestic spying and began a series of investigations into the misuse of intelligence agencies that historians now refer to as the Watergate era. Pyle worked on those investigations a consultant to Senator Sam J. Ervin’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and Senator Frank Church’s Select Committee on Intelligence. Since 1976, he has taught constitutional law and civil liberties at Mount Holyoke College and written extensively on freedom of expression, equal protection of the laws, and rights of privacy. Pyle is the author of four books, the most recent, Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights, analyzes how the United States went from being a nation of asylum for foreign revolutionaries in the nineteenth century to become the long arm of foreign injustice in the twentieth. He lives in South Hadley, MA.

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