The real victim has been civil liberties
WHAT has al-Qaida done to the American Constitution and to that country's standards of fairness? Are the emergency measures to combat terrorism undermining cherished freedoms and civil liberties?
In the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center, as the American campaign to find and destroy Osama bin Laden and his deadly network accelerated, these question were posed by Ronald Dworkin, professor of law and philosophy at New York University.
