National Security Scholar On Legal Legacy Of War On Terror

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Greenberg, director of Fordham University School of Law's Center on National Security, said that the erosion in American democracy and rule of law in the two decades following 9/11 was enabled by four "subtle tools" of intentionally vague language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy and the flouting legal norms. Stretching the meaning of words — using terms like "enhanced interrogation" to circumvent prohibitions on torture — classifying and hiding documentation of the government's activities, and judicial and congressional deference to the executive in contravention of the separation of powers are examples of the subtle tools.

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