GUANTÁNAMO

Reviewed 8/24/2008

GUANTÁNAMO And the Abuse of Presidential Power Joseph Margulies New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-7432-8685-5
ISBN-10 0-7432-8685-5	3213pp.	HC	$25.00

Errata

Page 50:	"Guantánamo is the only U.S. military base in the world where the United States exercises complete and exclusive jurisdiction..."
	Missing word: S/B "the only foreign U.S. military base".

Page 50:	"The Castro government has long characterised the U.S. presence as illegal, has ordered the United States to leave, and has refused to cash the annual rent payment of $4,085 the United States has tendered pursuant to the lease."
	MEA CULPA: At the time of my review, I called this an error of fact, supposing that the payment of $4,085 was per month. I was wrong, Margulies is right: It is a yearly payment.1

Page 94:	"As Justice Jackson warned in Youngstown, a claim to inherit 'power either has no beginning or it has no end.' "
	Word choice: S/B "inherent".

1 My goof was based on this story from the usually reliable Reuters: Castro: Cuba not cashing US Guantanamo rent checks (Reuters AlertNet): "The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost half a century and then only by mistake, Fidel Castro wrote in an essay published on Friday." This looks to be quoting Castro's own error. Wikipedia has the straight story.