Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007
The Grand Inquisitors
By David Cole
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice
by John Ashcroft
Center Street, 294 pp., $24.99
General Ashcroft: Attorney at War
by Nancy V. Baker
University Press of Kansas, 322 pp., $34.95
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
by Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq
New Press, 276 pp., $25.95
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
by Joe Conason
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 238 pp., $24.95
In the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, each time Attorney General John Ashcroft made a public appearance he would preface his remarks by announcing how many 'suspected terrorists'—many of them foreign nationals picked up on minor immigration violations—the government had detained. By early November, just seven weeks after the attacks, the official number stood at 1,182. Ashcroft's message was clear. The Justice Department had matters under control, and was preventing another attack by keeping more than one thousand suspects off the streets.
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