Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State

by Karen J. Greenberg

Book Overview

A few days after September 11, President Bush tasked Attorney General John Ashcroft--not the Director of the CIA, not the Secretary of Defense--with preventing another terrorist attack on the United States. Ashcroft and his successors took the mandate seriously; it was up to the DOJ to protect the nation. To do this, DOJ lawyers reformed the laws on intelligence gathering, rethought terrorism prosecutions as preventive rather than forensic and punitive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804138214
• ISBN13: 9780804138215
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"