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What To Do About The Torturers?, David Cole
What To Do About The Torturers?, David Cole
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The Defense Of Torture, David Luban
The Defense Of Torture, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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The New Mccarthyism: Repeating History In The War In Terrorism, David Cole
The New Mccarthyism: Repeating History In The War In Terrorism, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Essay will argue that the government has invoked two methods in particular in virtually every time of fear. The first, discussed in Part I, involves a substantive expansion of the terms of responsibility. Authorities target individuals not for what they do or have done but based on predictions about what they might do. These predictions often rely on the individuals' skin color, nationality, or political and religious associations. The second method, the subject of Part II, is procedural-the government invokes administrative processes to control, precisely so that it can avoid the guarantees associated with the criminal process. In hindsight, …