Introduction: Why We Shouldn’t Simply Move On
1) Lies That Embroiled Us in War and Occupation in Iraq
2) Wiretapping Americans
3) Crimes of Torture
4) Accountability at Home: Redressing Bush Administration
Misdeeds
5) International Justice: Accountability for the Bush Team
Abroad
6) What to Do: The Time Is Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Elizabeth Holtzman is a practicing lawyer in New York and a former
U.S. congresswoman.
Cynthia L. Cooper is a journalist and former practicing lawyer.
From the Hardcover edition.
"Elizabeth Holtzman, who helped bring President Nixon to justice in
the Watergate hearings, now takes on the bigger, deeper and even
more crucial task of investigating—and exposing—exactly how
President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney started an
illegal war, subverted civil liberties, human rights and the law
itself, and then used the national trauma following 9/11 to cover
it up. Start to read Cheating Justice, and you won't be able to put
it down."— Gloria Steinem, co-founder Ms. Magazine, writer and
feminist activist
“A passionate book grounded in law.”—Kirkus
“This book makes a vital contribution to addressing the abuses of
power of the Bush administration. Unfortunately today, nearly
three years after the end of the George W. Bush administration, our
nation still labors under the many excesses of that
era. Holtzman’s book offers a cogent and elaborate account of
that time period and important insights into how we can prevent
those from recurring.”—John Conyers Jr., author of The Constitution
in Crisis
“George W. Bush and his administration are gone, but the wrongdoing
they committed endures, exposed but unpunished. Extraordinary
rendition, warrantless wiretapping, torture: we cannot live with
this legacy, but neither can we seem to escape it. No one is
better qualified than Elizabeth Holtzman—prosecutor, congresswoman,
member of the Watergate committee—to confront this legal and moral
conundrum and show the way forward. Cheating Justice, like its
author, is fierce, bold, and unflinching. A powerful,
necessary book.”—Mark Danner, author of Stripping Bare the Body
“Here at last is a book for everyone who is outraged—or just
bewildered—that Bush, Cheney, and other top officials escaped
prosecution for their many flagrant violations of the law. Will
there really be no consequences for the men who lied us into war,
compromised our civil liberties, and made ‘waterboarding’ and
‘Guantánamo’ household words? Passionately, clearly, and concisely,
Elizabeth Holtzman lays out how it happened, how the Bush
administration secretly sought to immunize itself from prosecution,
and how we can still hold the perpetrators accountable.”—Katha
Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate
“Holtzman’s book indicting the Cheney-Bush administration is
passionate and persuasive. Whether it will be in a court of law or
a truth commission, history demands a reckoning so that future
administrations don’t also routinely act above the law. When that
happens, Cheating Justice will be among the bill of particulars.
Going from Nixon to Bush, Liz Holtzman has been a progressive
patriot dedicated to the rule of law.”—Mark Green, coauthor of The
Book on Bush
“Elizabeth Holtzman and I were in Congress at the same time: no one
I know is more vigilant in holding those in power accountable for
upholding our Constitution and the justice it demands. In Cheating
Justice, she recaps the incredible misdeeds of President Bush, Vice
President Cheney, and their team. Her cry for the rule of law to be
applied to them is a cry every citizen should heed; if we don’t,
our democracy’s future is in peril.”—Former congresswoman Patricia
Schroeder
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