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Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State, and the editor of “The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib and The Torture Debate in America.”

Latest articles by Karen J. Greenberg

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The hearings for Trump’s CIA pick should prompt a reckoning with tortureThe hearings for Trump’s CIA pick should prompt a reckoning with torture
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There’s much we don’t know about her role at a notorious “black site” where torture occurred — and about the role of other US officials.

By Karen J. Greenberg