Rogue Justice by Karen J Greenberg

Rogue Justice by Karen J Greenberg

The definitive account of how America s War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.
The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the Attorney General with preventing another terrorist attack on the United States. From that day forward, the Bush administration turned to the Department of Justice to give its imprimatur to activities that had previously been unthinkable from the NSA's spying on US citizens to indefinite detention to torture. Many of these activities were secretly authorized, others done in the light of day.
When President Obama took office, many observers expected a reversal of these encroachments upon civil liberties and justice, but the new administration found the rogue policies to be deeply entrenched, and, at times, worth preserving. Obama ramped up targeted killings, held fast to aggressive surveillance policies, and fell short on bringing reform to detention and interrogation.
How did America veer so far from its founding principles of justice? Rogue Justice connects the dots for the first time from the Patriot Act to today s military commissions, from terrorism prosecutions to intelligence priorities, from the ACLU s activism to Edward Snowden s revelations. And it poses a stark question: will the American justice system ever recover from the compromises it made for the war on terror?
Riveting and deeply reported, Rogue Justice could only have been written by Karen Greenberg, one of this country s top experts on Guantanamo, torture, and terrorism, with a deep knowledge of both the Bush and Obama administrations. Now she brings to life the full story of law and policy after 9/11, introducing us to the key players and events, showing that time and again, when liberty and security have clashed, justice has been the victim.

Greenberg, Karen J.: - Karen J. Greenberg is the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. She has a Ph.D. in American political history from Yale and teaches in the European Studies Department at NYU. She is a former Vice-President of the Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute and the founding director of the Program in International Education. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of numerous articles on the United States and Europe during World War II and an editor of the Archives of the Holocaust, Columbia University Series. She is the co-editor of the recently published The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib.

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ISBN 13	9780804138239
ISBN 10	0804138230
Title	Rogue Justice
Author	Karen J Greenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-05-23
Number of pages	320
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