“What we are seeing today is possible because there has never been meaningful accountability for the legal and political architecture created after 9/11,” said Yumna Rizvi, senior policy analyst, in this article in Folha de S.Paulo. She comments on the long-standing impacts of the U.S. government’s response to the 9/11 attacks, including application of the term “terrorist” broadly: “They realized what previous governments were able to do with people classified as terrorists: arrest them indefinitely, send them to detention centers, carry out attacks against them, with virtually no accountability.”
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After 9/11, The War on Terror Made the Exception Permanent
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Folha de S.Paulo
