Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

by Steven T. Wax
Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

by Steven T. Wax

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American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award — Winner in the Book category
Independent Publishers — Winner of the Gold Medal in the Autobiography/Memoir category       
ForeWord Book of the Year Awards — Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Social Science category
The Eric Hoffer Award - Winner in the Memoir category


A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system

“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen—governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America?

Under the current Bush administration, not only are the civil rights of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone. It could happen to us. It could happen to you.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781590514559
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 09/07/2010
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 380
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Steven Wax is in his sixth term as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon. A cum laude graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Law School, he was a key part of the Brooklyn, N.Y. District Attorney's prosecution of David Berkowitz, a.k.a."The Son of Sam." Wax and his team are currently representing seven men held as "enemy combatants"; in Guantanamo. He has taught at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, serves as an ethics prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar, and lectures throughout the country.

Table of Contents

Contents

Prologue……………………………………………………………………...3
Chapter One: Footprints in the Carpet………………………………………6
Chapter Two: “Portland Lawyer Arrested!”………………………………...13
Chapter Three: A Cry for Help from Guantanamo………………………….29
Chapter Four: Innocence is Irrelevant……………………………………...48
Chapter Five: Seized and Disappeared……………………………………..58
Chapter Six: From September 11 to Guantanamo Bay……………………..76
Chapter Seven: The Matching of Latent Print # 17………...........................96
Chapter Eight: A Lonely Battle…………………………………………….105
Chapter Nine: Feeding Refugees and Teaching Orphans…………………..126
Chapter Ten: The Unconscionable Detention of Adel Hamad…………..…146
Chapter Eleven: the Seeds of Mercy……………………………………….158
Chapter Twelve: A Life Exposed………………………………..................171
Chapter Thirteen: The Ice Man………………………………….................180
Chapter Fourteen: Something to Hide……………………………………...193
Chapter Fifteen: The Cavalry is Coming…………………………………...206
Chapter Sixteen: The DTA and the Second Rebuke………………………..223
Chapter Seventeen: Homeland Security……………………………………242
Chapter Eighteen: Proffer and Immunity…………………………………..251
Chapter Nineteen: Catch 22…..…………………………………………….265
Chapter Twenty: The Road to Kabul.....................................................278
Chapter Twenty One: Defenders in the War Zones…………..……………294
Chapter Twenty Two: Spanish Truths/American Lies……………………..306
Chapter Twenty Three: Mayfield: The Aftermath…………………………323
Chapter Twenty Four: The MCA and the Third Stall……………………...345
Chapter Twenty Five: The Dark Winter…………………………………...359
Chapter Twenty Six: Tea with the Ministers in Sudan ………………........374
Chapter Twenty Seven: The Final Round for Adel………………………..392
Chapter Twenty Eight: The Fight for Freedom is Never Won…………….410
Postscript………..…………………………………………………………417
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………..421
Notes………………………………………………………………….423

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