Liberty under attack : reclaiming our freedoms in an age of terror / edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Century Foundation.

Contributor:

Leone, Richard C.

Anrig, Greg, 1960-

Century Foundation.

Series:

Century Foundation book

A Century Foundation book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

United States.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Terrorism--United States--Prevention.

Terrorism.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

viii, 281 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, [2007]

Summary:

The devastating events of 9/11 set off a dramatic shift in the American consciousness. A transformation of the government's priorities was inevitable. However, rather than a brief era of reaction to terrible events, the changes set in motion five years ago have broadened into a pervasive curtailment of civil liberties and abuses of power. Today, the government exhibits a disturbing pattern of undermining the judiciary, intimidating the press, and invading personal privacy. At the same time, these and other actions have fueled hostility toward the United States in the world at large and in Islamic communities in particular.

In Liberty Under Attack experts and activists including Alan Brinkley and Joseph Lelyveld, legal scholars David Cole and Stephen Schulhofer, and former government officials John Podesta and Gary Hart report on the diverse actions, taken in the name of security, that undermine American liberties. They show how dear a price the country has paid for failing to discuss incursions on freedoms adequately and openly, and they explain why the consequences of these actions are ultimately counterproductive in preventing future terrorism. Indeed, the violation of civil liberties by our government is as real-and as treacherous-as the threat posed by terrorists. We must begin to reclaim the personal freedom that is so critical to our national life.

Contents:

Introduction : reclaiming liberty / Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr.

Past as prologue? / Alan Brinkley

What Bush wants to hear / David Cole

The Absent Congress / Gary Hart

More secrets, less security / John D. Podesta

The media and Bush's wars / Peter Osnos

The Patriot Act and the Surveillance Society / Stephen J. Schulhofer

The espionage industrial complex / Patrick Radden Keefe

The new counterterrorism : investigating terror, investigating Muslims / Aziz Huq

The Guantánamo question / Stacy Sullivan

What now for detainees? / Joseph Lelyveld

The secrecy trump / Ann Beeson

Disorder in military courts / Eugene R. Fidell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781586484781

1586484788

OCLC:

84837877