Rogue Justice Book Review

In writing Rogue Justice, The Making of the Security State, author Karen J. Greenberg has created an insightful, and telling account of how dangerously close America came to losing many of the freedoms afforded to us in the Bill of Rights following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is certainly accurate about Rouge Justice when he explained that the book is “a must read for anyone who cares about the constitution”.
Rogue Justice is an amazing tale of the legal workings that took place following the aftermath of 9/11 and how attorneys from both sides of the fight of security versus constitutional rights engaged the US court system, often outside public limelight and in secret, to pursue their side’s cause. Rogue Justice puts the conflict between national security and civil liberties in a post 9/11 world front and center, and gives a devastating account of the Bush Administration’s dilution of citizen’s rights and liberties in favor of national security, all the while strengthening the office of the president to usurp the constitution in order to detain U.S. Citizens indefinitely, torture people in the name of national security, and …show more content…
While you must read Rogue Justice to get the full effect, it is our prediction that you walk away from the book more leery of government activity, more grateful of your civil liberties, and hopefully appreciative of all the lawyers and activities, defense attorneys, and even Edward Snowden for acting in a way that sought to protect your rights from a government that would dilute them in order to pursue its agenda against