Stephan Salisbury is cultural writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a TomDispatch regular. His most recent book isMohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland. A TomCast audio interview in which he discusses the words that changed our world since September 11, 2001, can be heard by clicking here or downloaded to your ipod by clicking here.
Informers have by now become our first line of defense in our battles with the evildoers. How expansive will the stage become for informers and their government directors now working the theater of the Great Recession?