David Cole

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown. His latest book, written with Jules Lobel, is Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror.

From the Review

December 6, 2007: The Man Behind the Torture

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith

July 19, 2007: The Grand Inquisitors

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice by John Ashcroft

General Ashcroft: Attorney at War by Nancy V. Baker

It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror by Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq

January 11, 2007: 'How to Skip the Constitution': An Exchange

November 16, 2006: How to Skip the Constitution

Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency by Richard Posner

October 19, 2006: An 'Emergency Constitution'? (letter)

August 10, 2006: Why the Court Said No

July 13, 2006: In Case of Emergency

Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism by Bruce Ackerman

March 23, 2006: Are We Safer? An Epilogue

March 9, 2006: Are We Safer?

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

February 9, 2006: On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress (letter)

November 17, 2005: What Bush Wants to Hear

The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 by John Yoo

November 18, 2004: Uncle Sam Is Watching You

The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft by Samuel Dash

The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen

From New York Review Books

Justice at War
David Cole takes a critical look at John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and David Addington, the men who made the decisions that shaped America's war on terror. Cole argues that America can prevail against the threat of terror not by dismantling the checks and balances that guarantee the fairness of our justice system, but by restoring them.