On Tuesday, June 3, 2008, the Oregon Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Amnesty International, and Powell's City of Books, hosted Oregon Federal Public Defender Steven Wax as he discussed his new book, Kafka Comes to America. Around 100 ACS supporters came to hear Wax deliver the harrowing story of the erosion of civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks by telling the stories of two men he represented who were caught up in our government's post-9/11 counterterrorism measures: Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad. Mayfield, an American- born, small-town lawyer and family man, was arrested as a terrorist suspect in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was mistakenly traced back to him by the FBI. Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator working in Pakistan, was taken from his apartment and flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for no substantiated reason.