Volume 55, Number 10 · June 12, 2008
The Brits Do It Better
By David Cole
The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty
by Laura K. Donohue
Cambridge University Press, 512 pp., $99.00; $28.99 (paper)
Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security: Have the Rules of the Game Changed?
by David Bonner
Ashgate, 371 pp., $124.95
In August 2006, the United Kingdom arrested two dozen suspects in what was described as a plot to blow up passenger airplanes flying from London's Heathrow Airport to US and Canadian destinations. They were held without criminal charges for up to twenty-eight days, under a preventive detention law that had been expanded following the July 7, 2005, London subway and bus suicide bombings.[1] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales promptly announced that he would send a Justice Department team to study the United Kingdom's approach to antiterrorism. After all, the Brits had foiled the plot; we had not. Gonzales seemed especially interested in the power to lock up suspects without charges for up to twenty-eight days.
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