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

Format:

• Book

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