A Senate hearing last week recontextualized the debate over the prison.
Karen J. Greenberg
Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security and the author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy From the War on Terror to Donald Trump (August 2021).
Posted inAmerica and the World
Biden’s War Powers Without Limits
Airstrikes blur the distinction between war and hostilities.
Posted inDay One Agenda
How Biden Can Close Guantanamo Once and for All
Obama’s failed attempt to shutter the facility left us with some instructive lessons.
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Defusing the “Ticking Time Bomb” Excuse
Life does not imitate 24, and the Democratic candidates, led by Hillary Clinton, are finally learning to address the unrealistic scenarios that Republicans often use to justify torture.
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Split Screens
Lynndie England is dressed in an orange jump suit — Prisoner Number 9J7327 — with her stringy hair pulled back. She stares at the audience in the Culture Project’s theater on New York’s Bleecker Street. Several feet away, a British journalist attaches Post-its to a board. They are separated from each other by the length […]
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The Accused
For God And Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire by James Yee (with Aimee Molloy) (PublicAffairs, 240 pages, $24.00) One Woman’s Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story by Janis Karpinski (with Steven Strasser) (Hyperion, 256 pages, $24.95) War upends ordinary lives. At times, it can catapult individuals, […]
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Figures of Speech
One of John Kerry’s stronger moments in the first presidential debate came when he explained that, contrary to what George W. Bush would still have had inattentive viewers believe, Saddam Hussein did not attack the United States. To this cold reminder, Bush snapped back defensively, “Of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I […]
Posted inDispatches
Figures of Speech
One of John Kerry’s stronger moments in the first presidential debate came when he explained that, contrary to what George W. Bush would still have had inattentive viewers believe, Saddam Hussein did not attack the United States. To this cold reminder, Bush snapped back defensively, “Of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I […]
