Karen J. Greenberg
Author of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
About the Author
Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. She is also the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days.
Works by Karen J. Greenberg
Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (2021) 15 copies
The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror (2008) — Editor — 10 copies
Writing Assessment: Issues and Strategies (Longman Series in College Composition and Communication) (1986) 3 copies
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib [Hardcover] [2005] (Author) Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel, Anthony Lewis (2005) 1 copy
Octopus's Walker 1 copy
Associated Works
The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire (2008) — Contributor — 31 copies
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- Karen Greenberg emerged as a key figure in the Guantánamo debate in the spring of 2004. While fact-checking an article on torture for a law magazine, she uncovered a trove of documents outlining the U.S. government’s torture policies at Abu Ghraib prison. Her findings led to her first book on the subject, co-edited with Joshua Dratel, called The Torture Papers. She has since written four other books on national security and terrorism. Highlights of this interview include discussions of Greenberg’s personal experience on 9/11, the opening of and initial policies at Guantánamo Bay, early changes of command at Guantánamo and the creation of Joint Task Force 170, the Bush administration’s mistrust of the courts and interpretation of the Geneva Conventions, rendition and indefinite detention, the Obama administration’s Guantánamo policies, and the future of the war on terror.
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This is a clear and powerful book -- its level tone and reporting style, free of any apparent hyperbole or character takedowns, makes it even more painful to read than it might otherwise be. I also found it refreshingly non-partisan: neither of the major political parties is given a pass here (in the interest of full disclosure, I must state that although I am not a registered member of either party, I am of an extremely liberal bent).
Greenberg's book is useful for all citizens who, like me, show more know many of the major turns but are weak on the details of how our country descended into such a woeful vale. It would also be useful for those spectators from other countries who wonder "what the f**k happened to you lot? Why did you let this happen?"
And it really is a sickening state of affairs. Read it and weep. Many thanks to Crown Publishers for the ARC -- I will be ordering a copy of this when it is published, and recommending it to friends. show less
Greenberg's book is useful for all citizens who, like me, show more know many of the major turns but are weak on the details of how our country descended into such a woeful vale. It would also be useful for those spectators from other countries who wonder "what the f**k happened to you lot? Why did you let this happen?"
And it really is a sickening state of affairs. Read it and weep. Many thanks to Crown Publishers for the ARC -- I will be ordering a copy of this when it is published, and recommending it to friends. show less
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State by Karen J. Greenberg does a commendable job of "connecting the dots" from just prior to 9/11 through today with respect to the assault on civil liberties and justice. There is plenty of blame to go around and Greenberg does not hesitate to put responsibility where it belongs.
Certainly readers leaning heavily left or right will prefer more responsibility be shouldered by the other end of the spectrum (I am including myself here, I tend to place show more more on those who conceived of, and followed through on, plans to circumvent and disregard the Constitution and our liberties under the guise of "combating terrorism" but I tend to lean left) but I think Greenberg does a fair job of not trying to demonize either side. This allows her to speak to a broader audience about how and whether we can regain the principles the country used to value or remain little more than a shell of the country that once at least tried to value civil liberties.
I would recommend this to those who want a nice overview without heavyhandedness so they can look at the many decisions that will confront this country in the near future with a good grasp of what went wrong and what we might do to improve.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing. show less
Certainly readers leaning heavily left or right will prefer more responsibility be shouldered by the other end of the spectrum (I am including myself here, I tend to place show more more on those who conceived of, and followed through on, plans to circumvent and disregard the Constitution and our liberties under the guise of "combating terrorism" but I tend to lean left) but I think Greenberg does a fair job of not trying to demonize either side. This allows her to speak to a broader audience about how and whether we can regain the principles the country used to value or remain little more than a shell of the country that once at least tried to value civil liberties.
I would recommend this to those who want a nice overview without heavyhandedness so they can look at the many decisions that will confront this country in the near future with a good grasp of what went wrong and what we might do to improve.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via LibraryThing. show less
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers."The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." One of our greatest presidents said those words during one of the darkest times in American History. Too bad he wasn't around after 9/11 when one of our worst presidents crapped the bed and we almost lost the Bill of Rights. Here we are fifteen years and several crises later and we still haven't healed all the damage.
Rogue Justice covers it all; the AUMF, FISA court, the Patriot Act, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, the 20th hijacker, the underwear show more bomber, the Boston bombings, the NSA, Edward Snowden, drone strikes, it's all here in painstaking detail. The author explains that it's taken us fifteen years and all this history to figure out that the system we had in place before 9/11 is up to the task, and all these unconstitutional, illegal maneuvers we went through in the meantime didn't stop one terrorist act or make us one bit safer. Hopefully the next time something awful happens, and something awful eventually will, we'll have a President in place who's up to the challenge. Terrific book. show less
Rogue Justice covers it all; the AUMF, FISA court, the Patriot Act, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, the 20th hijacker, the underwear show more bomber, the Boston bombings, the NSA, Edward Snowden, drone strikes, it's all here in painstaking detail. The author explains that it's taken us fifteen years and all this history to figure out that the system we had in place before 9/11 is up to the task, and all these unconstitutional, illegal maneuvers we went through in the meantime didn't stop one terrorist act or make us one bit safer. Hopefully the next time something awful happens, and something awful eventually will, we'll have a President in place who's up to the challenge. Terrific book. show less
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.If this book doesn’t make you mad, you haven’t been paying attention. Karen Greenberg documents how since 9/11 our constitutional rights have been dying the death of a thousand cuts at the hands of government and elected officials who take advantage of every tragedy to expand government power and chip away at our rights. Greenberg does a great job of tracing the assault on our civil liberties through each legal opinion, court case, and piece of legislation as they occurred from 9/11 to show more the present day. If every American read this book this summer, we would have a very different government following the November 2016 election.
(This book was provided to me by the publisher as a LibraryThing early reviewer.) show less
(This book was provided to me by the publisher as a LibraryThing early reviewer.) show less
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