Karen J. Greenberg

Director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law; author of “The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days” and “Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump”

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Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University Law School, a nonpartisan think-tank, and the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days. She is a former executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School.

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