Losing the War on Terror: Why Giving Up Our Rights Won't Stop Terrorists

In this interview, legal expert David Cole says, "The Bush administration has adopted a particular approach to fighting terrorism, something it calls the 'preventive paradigm.' This paradigm seeks to employ the most coercive measures that a state has against people, not because of what they have done but because of what they might do."

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