false 1494826 1 <B>A cogent critique of the new "preventive paradigm" in counterterrorism policy by two of the nation's leading legal scholars.</B><BR><BR><I>"If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long."</I>&#151;President George W. Bush, defending the National Security Strategy doctrine "preemptive war," Commencement Speech at West Point, June 1, 2002<BR><BR>In Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller <I>Minority Report</I>, the Justice Department uses psychic visionaries to predict and prevent future crimes. President Bush has no psychic visionaries, but in fighting the war on terrorism his administration has nonetheless adopted a sweeping new "preemptive" strategy, which turns on the ability to predict the future.<BR><BR>At home and abroad, the administration has cut corners on fundamental commitments of the rule of law in the name of preventing future attacks&#151;from "waterboarding" detainees, to disappearing suspects into secret CIA prisons, to attacking Iraq against the wishes of the UN Security Council and most of the world when it posed no imminent threat of attacking us.<BR><BR>In this brilliantly conceived critique, two of the country's preeminent constitutional scholars argue that the great irony is that these sacrifices in the rule of law, adopted in the name of prevention, have in fact made us more susceptible to future terrorist attacks. They conclusively debunk the administration's claim that it is winning the war on terror and offer an alternative strategy in which the rule of law is an asset, not an obstacle, in the struggle to keep us both safe and free. 1486141 13 8 2007 Less Safe, Less Free: The Failure of Pre-Emption in the War on Terror total:9|5:1|4:2|3:5|2:1| 9 30 27 3 0 0 false false Tue Aug 21 21:25:56 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 21:37:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 20:45:19 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 12 09:10:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 15 06:19:27 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 06:19:58 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 19:31:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:31:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 14:24:54 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 14:24:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 26 11:40:09 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 11:40:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 08 22:03:41 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 22:03:41 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Feb 05 18:48:56 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:49:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 20:12:29 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 20:12:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 10:47:10 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 10:47:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Dec 28 10:38:55 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:38:55 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 26 07:28:37 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 07:28:37 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 24 21:59:30 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 21:59:30 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 20 10:28:41 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 21:46:43 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Sep 23 07:41:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 07:41:00 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Aug 16 11:19:13 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 19 19:23:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jul 22 12:07:09 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 12:07:18 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jun 15 07:19:27 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 07:19:27 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 11 09:20:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 09:20:25 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Apr 27 09:29:42 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 18:52:55 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 18:53:02 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1494826