Karen Greenberg

Karen Greenberg appears in the following:

Recapping The Jan. 6 Committee's Final Prime Time Hearing (For Now)

Friday, July 22, 2022

Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, discusses what we learned last night about President Trump's actions during the January 6th insurrection. 

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Looking Ahead to Today's January 6th Committee Hearings

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

As the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection reconvenes for a hearing, we preview what we might learn with Fordham Law's Karen Greenberg and WNYC's own Brian Lehrer.

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What We Might Hear From The January 6th Committee

Thursday, June 09, 2022

Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, joins us to discuss what we might learn in the January 6th committee's public hearings.

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Gina Haspel Faces Tough Confirmation to Head C.I.A.

Wednesday, May 09, 2018

President Trump's pick to serve as the director of the C.I.A. Gina Haspel is expected to be challenged about her role in the agency's use of controversial interrogation tactics.

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Fear and Tragedy in New York City

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

On Tuesday afternoon in New York City, a man in a rented pickup truck drove down a crowded bike path for almost a mile, striking several cyclists and killing eight people. 

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Is the U.S. Getting Better at Dealing with Terrorism?

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

In the case of Ahmad Khan Rahami, there were no deaths, a quick arrest, and a lack of pervasive fear in the tri-state area. Are those markers of success in the age of terror? 

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Exposing the True Cost of Living in a Security State

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Karen Greenberg questions whether it will ever be possible to restore civil liberties to the way they were before the War on Terror. 

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President Obama's Final Push to Close Gitmo

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The president addressed the nation about his long-promised plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

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Detecting Terrorism Online Raises Legal Questions

Friday, January 29, 2016

The US government is in talks with Silicon Valley about creating tools to identify potential terrorists on social media. Is that legal?

Protecting our Country After Patriot Act Provisions Expire

Monday, June 01, 2015

Law professor Karen Greenberg says no one has shown a correlation between the part of the Patriot Act that expired and the thwarting of terrorist attacks. What might replace it?

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White House: American, Italian Hostages Killed in CIA Drone Strike

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Dr. Warren Weinstein, an American held by Al Qaeda since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian national who had been an Al Qaeda hostage since 2012, died in January.

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Digging Into the Senate's Scathing Torture Report

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A former CIA agent who says he personally interrogated Al-Qaida members discusses the interrogation techniques detailed in the report, from "water dousing" to "walling."

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The Torture Report Is Out

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

The long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report on Bush era "enhanced interrogation techniques" has been released. So what's in it?

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The Beginning of The End for Gitmo?

Monday, December 08, 2014

The Pentagon has transferred six Guantánamo Bay detainees to Uruguay. It's the largest group transfer in five years, and the first relocated to South America.

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Who Gets to See the CIA Torture Report

Thursday, August 07, 2014

The release of the Senate's massive assessment of the U.S. torture practices has once again been delayed amid argument about who gets to see it, who gets to redact it, and whether the public will ever get to know. Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law University, discusses what comes next.

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Pentagon Transfers 6 Guantánamo Prisoners

Friday, July 18, 2014

The Pentagon has secretly notified Congress that the military intends to transfer six low-level Guantánamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as early as next month. It would be the first trans...

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The New Politics of Benghazi

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Obama Administration will set a new precedent with the trial of Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected leader of the attacks in Benghazi. Instead of trying him at Guantánamo Bay, a Was...

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Guantanamo After Bergdahl

Monday, June 09, 2014

In exchange for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, five prisoners were returned to the Taliban from Guantanamo Bay. Karen Greenberg, head of Fordham University's Center on National Security and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, looks at whether this indicates a change in prisoner detention policy, and what it says about just who is being held at Guantanamo.

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The CIA Torture Report You'll Finally (Maybe) Get to Read

Monday, April 07, 2014

The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to release the massive report detailing Bush-era interrogation techniques. The White House still has to approve it, though - Karen Greenberg, head of Fordham's Center on National Security, discusses what we know and can expect.

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Jury Convicts Osama bin Laden's Son-In-Law

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A Manhattan jury has convicted Sulaiman Abu Ghaith of aiding al Qaeda in the wake of 9/11. Speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show this morning (before a verdict), Karen Greenberg of Fordha...

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