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Disturbing things for a lot of americans as they realize what had happened after the patriot act and after sort of spending a few years in the america, the bush/cheney america, was the realization that a third class of criminal, a third class of prisoner had been created in america, outside of the traditional american justice system which has a lot of the protocols you just described, outside of the american military, and geneva conventions for justice, this third class of criminal was invented which required no due process. allowed guantanamo, et cetera, and i think what's been most disturbin...

Guantanamo when they said we can't have a land without law. you can't just say that person is a terrorist and, therefore, take away their rights when you don't have any reliable way to figure out whether they are a terrorist, but i'm talking about in my book, i don't really talk about guantanamo and torture as much as i talk about things that happen to ordinary americans and i tell, for example, the story of one of our aclu clients who was arrested as, quote, a material witness because the government realized they didn't have probable cause to arrest him so on a pretext they said they wanted h...