POLSC401: Ethics and Public Policy

7.2: Nonconventional Combat and Intelligence Operations

• Jennifer K. Elsea and Michael John Garcia's "Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court" URL

  Read this report.

• U.S. Supreme Court: "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006)" URL

  Read this case.

• The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Abraham L. Halpern, John H. Halpern, and Sean B. Doherty's "'Enhanced' Interrogation of Detainees: Do Psychologists and Psychiatrists Participate?" File
• Martin L. Cook's "Ethical Issues in Counterterrorism Warfare" URL

  Read this article on the ethical issues of a "war against terrorism."

• Peter Simpson's "The War on Terrorism: Its Moral Justification and Limits" URL

  Read this article about the morality of the "war against terrorism."

• PBS: "The Moral Debate about Torture" URL

  Watch this video.