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Book Review: Guantanamo: the war on human rights, Guantanamo: what the world should know

In December 2004, Brian Boyle, the principal deputy associate attorney general for the United States, told a federal district court judge that the US president could imprison a ‘little old lady from Switzerland’ in Guantanamo if she donated to a charity not knowing that her money was eventually used to finance the activity of terrorists. ‘Someone’s intention is clearly not a factor that would disable detention’, he stated (New York Times, 2 December). The definition of an enemy combatant, Boyle maintained, ‘is not limited to someone who carries a weapon’. It would be up to a Guantanamo Combatant Status Review Panel to decide whether to believe the little old lady when she said that she was not an enemy combatant. The fact that shewould not be entitled to a lawyer or to see the evidence against her was of no concern to the Justice Department official. And, yes, he told the judge, the panels could consider evidence obtained through torture: ‘Nothing in the due process clause [of the US Constitution] prohibits them from relying on it.’ Can the rule of law survive what Boyle called the ‘global reach’ of the US-led ‘war on terrorism’? If it does, attorney Michael Ratner and investigative journalist David Rose deserve much of the credit. ‘There should be no place in the world that is a law-free zone, no place in the world where human beings have no rights’, declares