Karen Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law. She has edited The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (with Joshua Dratel), The Torture Debate in America and Al Qaeda Now (all by Cambridge).

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  • Secrets and Lies

    December 7, 2005

    By the time the first prisoners were taken in Iraq, a green light to abuse had been issued in writing. Now torture is cloaked in a veil of secrecy, with obscured statistics, dismissal of human rights reports and outright denial. Torture has proved to be a window into the Bush Administration's pursuit of the war on terror.

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