Cheating Justice

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 y ou won't be able to put it down. -- Gloria Steinem, co-founder Ms. Magazine, writer and feminist activist <br> A passionate book grounded in law. -- Kirkus <br> 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 <br> 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 <br> 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 'Guantanamo' household word