Leaders | Security v freedom in the United States
The war on terror haunts America still; it should recover some of its most cherished values
THE case of Private Bradley Manning, convicted this week by a military court of leaking secrets to the WikiLeaks website and now facing up to 136 years in jail, looks as if it might be the high-water mark of America’s zealous security culture. It certainly ought to be. After the attacks of September 11th 2001, George Bush tipped the balance too far from liberty towards security, and it has stayed there under Barack Obama.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Liberty’s lost decade”
From the August 3rd 2013 edition
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