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Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on innocent civilians, the American people have lived in a “state of exception,” a kind of undeclared state of emergency, according to Mark Danner, author and journalist, who has written on foreign affairs for more than two decades for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In his address at the 14th annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture at the Graduate Center, entitled “Escaping Bush’s State of Exception: Torture and Truth, Obama and Us,” Danner read accounts from prisoners held at Abu Ghraib, the basis of his 2009 essay “U.S. Torture: Voices from the Black Sites” for the New York Review of Books, which revealed the contents of a International Committee of the Red Cross report on “high-value detainees” held in secret U.S. prisons.
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