Lawyers Keep Out

April 3, 2003 | This article appeared in the April 21, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Because September 11 "changed everything," it hasn't always been easy to
find an objective yardstick by which to judge the Bush Administration's
tactics in the "war on terrorism." But the Admin

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David Cole

David Cole (@DavidColeGtown), The Nation's legal affairs correspondent, is the author, most recently, of The Torture...

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