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- ↑ Honigsberg, Peter Jan (2009-05-18). Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94312-4.
- ↑ "Fighting for Detainees at Guantanamo". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ↑ Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon and Schuster 2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-8685-5
- ↑ What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity (Yale University Press 2013) ISBN 978-0300176551
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