The Terror Protection Racket

My latest article in the opinion section of this week’s LA Times on the FBI’s policy of preemptive sting operations in their marquee domestic terrorism  prosecutions.

You can link to the full text of the article here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bartosiewicz-informants-20110918,0,676137.story

To Catch A Terrorist

Check out my latest article in the August 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine:Aug2011cover

“To Catch a Terrorist: The FBI Hunts for the Enemy Within”

You can link to the article here:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/08/0083545

The Accidental Terrorist

How Animal Rights Activist Rebecca Rubin Became a “Most Wanted” Woman

My latest article online today at Counterpunch:

http://www.counterpunch.org/petra01142011.html

Democracy Now appearance on entrapment

October 6, 2010 appearance on Democracy Now to discuss a new documentary by Democracy Now producer Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohan of Big Noise Productions. This documentary looks at the government’s increasing use of informants in sting operations for domestic terrorism cases:dn_logo

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/6/entrapment_or_foiling_terror_fbis_reliance

Petra on Democracy Now

dn_logoMy recent appearance on Democracy Now discussing the Lynne Stewart re-sentencing…video here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/16/civil_rights_attorney_lynne_stewart_re

And an earlier appearance on Democracy Now from last November, discussing the Aafia Siddiqui case. Video here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/4/ignoring_torture_claims_and_questionable_evidence

Los Angeles Times op-ed “The Price of Defending Terrorists”

A piece on Lynne Stewart, defense attorney and human rights activist, who was re-sentenced this week to 10 years.

Full text here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-petra-stewart-20100715,0,7897821.story

Book Review: “The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First Hundred Days”

Check out my review ofLeast_Worst_Place_Guantanamo Karen Greenberg’s book on the first hundred days of Guantanamo in the Spring 2010 issue of the Carnegie Foundation’s Ethics and International Affairs journal. You can link to the piece online here:

http://www.cceia.org/resources/journal/24_1/reviews/002

TIME.com ‘A Pakistani on Trial–With Pakistani Reporters Shut Out’

Jan. 23, 2010–More coverage of the Aafia Siddiqui trial. A dispatch for TIME Magazine’s online edition on security measures and the lack of equal access for certain members of the media.

See full text here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1956197,00.html

TIME.com ‘Putting Aafia Siddiqui on Trial’

Jan 18, 2010–This week Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial. My pretrial roundup for Time Magazine’s online edition on what we can expect to see and what we won’t see.

See full text here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954598,00.html

Los Angeles Times op-ed on the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial

Why the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow accused 9/11 plotters will be neither the civil liberties victory its proponents claim, nor the terrorist propaganda opportunity its opponents fear.

Full text here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-petra29-2009nov29,0,477313.story

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