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Chip Pitts

Chip Pitts is lecturer at Stanford Law School, and president of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

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War, law and American democracy

The Bush administration has undermined international law and subverted national democracy, justifying both by the cultivation of fear. Chip Pitts & Bryan Long assess the damage and how it can be repaired.