Karen Greenberg appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Kathleen Dunn Show to speak about her new book, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.
In her new book “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State,” Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, examines how the U.S. veered from its founding principles of justice, specifically outlined in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
The security state, said Greenberg, expanded immediately following the terrorist attacks. For one, she said intelligence agencies become an incredibly more powerful and omnipresent force, proliferating into new departments of government. It also ushered in a new era of classified information and general secrecy.
“I think one of the biggest problems we made after 9/11 and a problem we continue to make is to think that more is better, that the more information we have the safer we are. And I would argue that the smarter we are about how to target information and target individuals and sense what’s coming down the line, the safer we are,” said Greenberg, adding that the quality of intelligence U.S. agencies are collecting is more pertinent and helpful.