“‘We have to acknowledge and grapple with the fact that, in the post-9/11 era, we took a wrong turn in this path. We turned to policies of torture and now targeted killing, of Guantanamo and military commissions, of warrantless government spying and religious and racial profiling.’ The path ahead, Shamsi added, should not be defined by what she called a ‘zero-sum game between security and liberty,’ but by a commitment to constitutional values.”
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