Foreword

[Excerpt] "I first met John Hutson in 2005 when I was the Executive Director of Human Rights First. Human Rights First was working to challenge the use of cruelty by U.S. officials in security detentions, practices that had been used at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and elsewhere after the attacks on September 11, 2001. We knew that the human rights community acting alone could not influence this debate, so we went looking for national security experts to help us challenge these practices. "