Extended Response questions

This assignment requires that you complete the following questions. Be sure to use full sentences (avoid 1-2 line responses), and cite your information properly. (One source for each question). Each question is worth 10 points.

  1. Why is the Military Commissions Act so controversial?
  2. How is institutional control establisned at Guantanamo Bay?
  3. According to The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Greenberg and Drakel, 2005), how did the Bush administration attempt to concoct a legal defense for the use of torture in the war on terror?
  4. What is mean by neoclassical detention as carried by the US military in Iraq?