Analysis & Commentary
Justice
Making Growth Work for All New Yorkers
Authored by: Annette Bernhardt and Adrianne Shropshire
– 05/07/07
Fitna’s Hateful Crusade
Feared, condemned sight-unseen and praised as a celebration of free speech, Fitna, a seventeen-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, appeared on the Internet in late March. Fitna is a bombastic, bloody montage linking terrorist violence to Koranic texts. It resembles the videos Iraqi insurgents use to fete and cultivate suicide bombers. This convergence of visual vocabularies is no accident. Like insurgent propaganda, Fitna aims to embolden the extremes to the detriment of the moderate middle. It seeks to affirm Samuel Huntington’s pernicious vision of clashing civilizations by inviting violent responses from radicals, by forcing moderate Muslims into unpleasant choices between national loyalties and religious beliefs, and by reinforcing prejudicial views of Islam as unfit for civilized living.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 04/07/07
Politicizing National Security
We’ve been here before. As I and my colleague Fritz Schwarz detail in our new book, the Senate established the Church Committee because of a rising tide of evidence that the FBI, the CIA and other intelligence agencies had been engaged in the serial, and seriously partisan, abuse of intelligence powers. This history, which Fritz and I will be discussing in a series of presentations in New York, Chicago and Washington from Tuesday onward ought to be required reading for a Congress that seems to have lost its way in a thicket of executive branch claims about what must be done and what we cannot do without.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 04/04/07
Gitmo Justice
A man who the government claims fought “on the front line” of terrorism is given a door to freedom: Australian Guantánamo detainee David Hicks has entered a plea deal before one of the military commissions created by the Military Commissions Act, and agreed to serve nine months with immediate transfer to Australia.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 04/04/07
Background on Executive Privilege
Background on executive privilege.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/23/07
Subpoenas and the Exercise of “Executive Privilege”
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/22/07
Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/16/07
The Quality of Justice
As Shakespeare might ask, what happens when the quality of justice becomes strained? That is the question raised by new evidence of improper politicization of the Department of Justice. This evidence—but the latest in a string of revelations of justice (small “j” and big) pushed from its proper place—ought to prompt new laws to guard the propriety and independence of those who enforce the nation’s laws.
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/13/07
The Quality of Justice
Authored by: Aziz Huq
– 03/13/07