Confronting Terror
9/11 and the Future of American National Security
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2011
320 pages
978-1-59403-563-0 (ISBN)
Description
After the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States went to war. With thousands of Americans killed, billions of dollars in damage, and aggressive military and security measures in response, we are still living with the war a decade later. A change of presidential administration has not dulled controversy over the most fundamental objectives, strategies and tactics of the war, or whether it is even a war. This book clears the air over the meaning of 9/11, and sets the stage for a reasoned, clear, and considered discussion of the future with a collection of essays commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The contributors include supporters and critics of the war on terrorism, policymakers and commentators, insiders and outsiders, and some of the leading voices inside and outside government.
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Dean Reuter is a senior staff member of the Federalist Society, the premier conservative/libertarian legal group in the country.
John Yoo is law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former Bush Justice Department official. He is most recently the author of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power (2010).
John Yoo is law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former Bush Justice Department official. He is most recently the author of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power (2010).
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- introduction
- in memory of barbara k. olson
- the obama response to september 11
- 9/11 in its historical context
- war v. crime: breaking the chains of the old security paradigm
- a unified defense against terrorists
- reforming the intelligence community
- the imperfect reconciliation of liberty and security
- torture and democratic accountability: an oxymoron?
- nuremburg revisited and revised: the legitimation of torture in the united states
- stopping the terrorists
- confronting the animating ideology of the enemy
- Interrogation
- fear: the tail wagging the post-9/11 policy dog
- liberty, security, and the usa patriot act
- protection of our national security-revisited
- access to justice in the "war on terror"
- problematic post-9/11 judicial inactivism: immunizing executive branch overreaching
- the guantánamo mess
- our fighting faith, ten years later
- Conclusion
- Author Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
