At home and abroad, the U.S. Government has cut corners on the rule of law in the name of preventing future terror attacks - from waterboarding’ detainees, to disappearing suspects into CIA prisons, to attacking Iraq against the wishes of the U.N. security council. The authors of this book argue that the great irony is that these sacrifices have made us more susceptible to future terrorist attacks. They conclusively debunk the claim that the U.S. is winning the ‘war on terror’, and offer another strategy to keep us both safe and free.