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...Mentality”). 9/11 changed this nation forever—it changed the way we secure our country and conduct intelligence. The President has managed to deal with these changes in creating the Department of Homeland Security and in adopting an offensive—not defensive??stance against terrorists under uncertain and quickly changing times. The fact that Bush and members of his administration planned to invade Iraq before 9/11 was foresight that the Clinton administration did not have—that Saddam was an irresponsible dictator who violated U.N. resolutions and was a threat to the United...
Where much of what the Berkman Center does is defensive??protecting the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, in the context of the Internet—I represent the offense. My job is to help people use the Web to exercise rights in clearly non-infringing ways. If the people I help get in trouble with the government, so the theory goes, our country and perhaps the world is in serious trouble...
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