By: Steven T. Wax
“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax, the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen --- governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America?
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