Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
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Unchecked and Unbalanced: Power in a Time of Terror (New Press) is an exploration of the expansion of executive power in the wake of 9/11, and provides a comprehensive analysis rooted in legal and political history of the current Administrations theory of unlimited presidential license. Frederick A. O. Schwarz, who served as chief counsel on the Church Committee that investigated intelligence abuses and executive overeaching during the Watergate era, and Aziz Huq, who directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center, argue that the recent usurpation of executive power is in fact part of general, dangerous trend towards monarchical presidential power.
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REVIEWS
& COMMENTS
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. calls the book “powerful, fascinating and ominous.”
Bob Herbert of the New York Times says, "[Schwarz] is the quintessential straight arrow...[A] quiet patriot...spreading the word that the very meaning of the United States...will be lost if the nation's ironclad commitment to the rule of law is allowed to unravel."
David Cole of The New York Review of Books writes, "Provides valuable critical perspective...Institutional flaws make it all too easy for such offcials [as Cheney, Ashcroft, and Gonzales] to get away with unconstitutional initiatives in times of crisis."
Former Vice President Walter Mondale describes it as a “gripping historical account [that] explains how the Bush Administration has strayed from the best American traditions in its counter-terrorism policy by ignoring history and getting the law wrong.”
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RELATED ARTICLES
To learn more about the book, read:
No Kings Please, We’re Americans
by Frederick A. O. Schwarz and Aziz Huq (Legal Times, March 2007)
The Real Patriots
by Bob Herbert (New York Times, 2/19/07)
Extraordinary Rendition and the Wages of Hypocrisy
by Aziz Huq (World Policy Journal, Spring 2006)