Timothy Lynch is director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and has become a leading voice in the battle for civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. Lynch has published articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Law Journal, and he has appeared on PBS s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Fox s The O Reilly Factor, and C-SPAN s Washington Journal, among other venues.