Glenn Greenwald on Torture, at SPSCC

When: Mon Nov 1 2010 07:00 PM
Where: SPSCC Campus. Building 26, Room 105
What: Glenn Greenwald is a Constitutional and civil rights
attorney, columnist and blogger for Salon.com, and author of the NY
Times bestselling books How Would a Patriot Act?, A Tragic Legacy, and
Great American Hypocrites. He has written articles for The New York
Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harpers, The American Conservative, The
National Interest, and In These Times. He appears regularly as a
commentator on various news programs including ABC’s This Week, CSPAN,
NPR’s All things Considered, Democracy Now! With Amy Goodman, and PBS’s
Bill Moyers Journal. In 2009 he won the Izzy Award for excellence in
independent journalism and New York Magazine, Forbes, and The Atlantic
have all named him one of the 40 most influential pundits in American
media.

Over the last decade Greenwald has made a career of examining the war on
terror, and more specifically our treatment of detainees in places like
Guantanamo, warrantless wiretapping, our inconsistencies in applying
the rule of law, and politicians of both parties undermining or
violating the US Constitution. He has also been a relentless critic of
the corporate press and its coverage (or lack thereof) of these
important issues. This talk will examine where things stand today,
including changes in the Obama administration as well as continuation
and sometimes expansion of policies started in the Bush administration.
The presentation should be of interest to anyone concerned with
constitutional law, torture, due process, civil liberties, the war on
terror, or the Constitution.