After September 11th: What We Still Don’t Know
BY DAVID COLE, The New York Review of Books

Much has changed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition to the two wars the United States has engaged in, the American response to the terrorist attacks have further tested the boundaries of law. In this new era, civil liberties have often been sacrificed in favor of preserving national security. While the Supreme Court and the Obama administration have sometimes stood up to past overreaching by the Bush administration, the failure to acknowledge wrongdoing is troublesome and tears at the foundation of the rule of law.