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Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is a noted expert on national security, terrorism, and civil liberties. She is Director of the Center on National Security and is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press, 2009), which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. Her 2016 book, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown), explores the War on Terror's impact on justice and law in America. Follow her on Twitter at @KarenGreenberg3

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Donald Trump
The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

The Real Failure of January 6th: How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà vu,” just two years and two days after the January 6th Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of thousands stormed government buildings in the capital city of another country […]

Bill of Rights
Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch: The Fate of Guantánamo

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com) – As of December 8, 2022, Guantánamo Bay detention facility — a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in this country’s never-ending Global War on Terror — has been open for nearly 21 years (or, to be precise, 7,627 days). Thirteen years ago, I published a book, The Least […]

Afghanistan
The Ukraine Moment:   Lessons from the War on Terror

The Ukraine Moment: Lessons from the War on Terror

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ukraine is obviously a powder keg. With each passing day, in fact, the war there poses new threats to the world order. Only recently, Vladimir Putin’s Russia intensified its attacks on civilian targets in that beleaguered land, while threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons and adding Ukraine’s neighbor Belarus to its […]

Domestic Surveillance
Donald Trump’s Document Grab and the Dismantling of Democracy

Donald Trump’s Document Grab and the Dismantling of Democracy

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to Donald Trump, secrecy is big news these days. However, as political pundits and legal experts race to expose the layers of document-related misdeeds previously buried at his Mar-a-Lago estate, one overlooked reality looms large: despite all the coverage of the thousands of documents Trump took with him when he […]

Bill of Rights
The State of Disgrace in Washington

The State of Disgrace in Washington

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Well before the House select committee’s January 6th investigation began, trust in the classic American system of checks and balances as reliable protection against executive (or, more recently, Supreme Court) abuses of power had already fallen into a state of disgrace. A domestically shackled Biden presidency, a Congress unable to act, […]

Civil Rights
The Empire’s New Clothes: The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you watched TV in the 1960s and 1970s as I did, you would undoubtedly have come away with the idea that this country’s courts, law enforcement agencies, and the laws they aimed to honor added up to a system in which justice was always served. In those years, for instance, […]

Climate Crisis
Our Ukraine Wake-Up Call:  The Global Age is Upon Us

Our Ukraine Wake-Up Call: The Global Age is Upon Us

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In recent days, experts have begun laying out the potential hardships the Russian invasion of Ukraine might inflict here in the United States, thousands and thousands of miles from the battle zone. As former White House national security official Richard Clarke bluntly put it, “Russia will bring the war to our […]

Pentagon
Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame: Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary?

Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame: Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary?

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s now more than 20 years later and that American offshore symbol of mistreatment and injustice, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is still open. In fact, as 2021 ended, New York Times reporter Carol Rosenberg, who has covered that notorious prison complex since its first day, reported on the Pentagon’s […]

Militarization
How to End America’s Forever Wars for Once and for All

How to End America’s Forever Wars for Once and for All

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com) – As August ended, American troops completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan almost 20 years after they first arrived. On the formal date of withdrawal, however, President Biden insisted that “over-the-horizon capabilities” (airpower and Special Operations forces, for example) would remain available for use anytime. “[W]e can strike terrorists and targets without American boots […]

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