Skeptalk: The Twisted Logic of the War on Terror

The underlying question is this, says Wackrow: Are current counterterrorism measures based on realistic assessments of the dangers Americans face, or are they in fact driven by other considerations?

SPEAKER:  Richard E. Wackrow is a retired print journalist living in Montana. He was a reporter and editor for newspapers in several markets, and has written for the Dallas Morning News, Entrepreneur magazine, and other major publications. Appalled by the excesses, waste, and civil liberties violations of the war on terror, he came out of retirement in 2005 to establish a website concentrating on Fourth Amendment issues. That effort eventually resulted in the writing of his first book, the meticulously researched Who's Winning the War on Terror.

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