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Inside the Newsroom: Sacrificing freedom to terrorism

Politics – Jack Goldsmith, a conservative lawyer, was hired by the Bush administration in 2003-2004 as an assistant attorney general and worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Council, where he tried to make sure our nation's anti-terrorism investigations and actions - like wire-tapping and waterboarding - were lawful. What he saw troubled him.

Tags: Justice Department, war on terror, civil rights, torture, wiretapping

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