David Cole

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University and legal correspondent for The Nation. His Most recent book is Justice At War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America’s War on Terror.

Closing Guantánamo

We need to find a way to address serious and legitimate security concerns without the overkill of a general system of preventive detention for suspected terrorists. 

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Joanne Mariner
  • Robert Chesney
  • Eric Posner

Civil Liberties after 9/11 — Final Response

Avoiding temptation

  • David Cole

Civil Liberties after 9/11

We should resist trading off liberties for security for reasons of principle, pragmatism, and self-interest.

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • Philip A. Thomas
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Oren Gross
  • Hiroshi Motomura
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Mari Matsuda
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