9/11/12: a day for reflection

"We have to acknowledge and grapple with the fact that, in the post-9/11 era, we took a wrong turn in this path," said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, which monitors the country's security practices. "We turned to policies of torture and now targeted killing, of Guantanamo and military commissions, of warrantless government spying and religious and racial profiling."