The author, then five years old, visits the Associated Press office in Beirut while her father, Terry Anderson, was held captive in 1990. She pretends to call him and tells him she wants him to come home. Photo by Ahmed Azakir/AP
The author, then five years old, visits the Associated Press office in Beirut while her father, Terry Anderson, was held captive in 1990. She pretends to call him and tells him she wants him to come home. Photo by Ahmed Azakir/AP
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"We now have a society in which large areas of government decision and action are routinely kept from the public," Dad said during his testimony. "Think of Abu Ghraib and the torture of prisoners, official and unofficial. Think of massive spying on American citizens whose phones, computers, vehicle movements and bank accounts can be monitored without their knowledge….our fear is overwhelming the system of government that has served us for 240 years. Half of the Bill of Rights is now regularly ignored. Our own government agencies violate the Constitution at will and with impunity. And we can do nothing, because we know nothing."Every investigative journalist has a FOIA horror story or an instance in which powerful interests simply refused to play ball.
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A photo of Terry Anderson taken by his captors in May, 1985. Photo courtesy of the AP
