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...Haitian police officers are supposed to be stationed at each of some 800 polling stations, but no one is looking to the 6,000-man force to provide security for the elections or anything else. Most consider the police part of the problem. "The nice officers are the ones who torture without leaving blood," says a human-rights specialist who spent months gathering data. "High-ranking police officers' involvement in illegal activities has become institutionalized," says Haitian national police chief Mario Andersol, who admits that he lacks the manpower, weapons and institutional credibility to provide the security his country desperately...
...well as an editorial oversight—after all, the high court upheld the right of enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in the Hamdi and Rasul rulings. But bear with me. This review is not about the Taliban fighters on Guantánamo now, but about the Haitian refugees who were the naval base’s unwilling tenants...
...book, “Storming the Court,” attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern...
...decision in the Haitian refugee case may have been vacated, but this book will make sure it is not forgotten...
...surprisingly, “Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees. “After 9/11, it is also a cautionary tale about how we use our naval base at Guantanamo...