Are we safer?

We have more than six years of experience with the Bush administration’s war on terror, and there has not been another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. But can the administration take credit for that? Below is a link to a report card on what the administration’s counter-terrorism strategy has achieved, and what it has cost. The figures are drawn from official government sources, reliable news accounts, institutional reports and our own continuing review of data.

Click here to read the report card on the Bush administration’s counter-terrorism strategy.

David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and Jules Lobel, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, are the authors of “Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror.”