The revelations of what the Bush administration was considering in the wake of 9/11 have been chilling, and nowhere is the scope of these measures summed up better than in the opening paragraph of Michael Isikoff's current story in Newsweek:
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday.
Read the whole story here.
This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2009.