October 17, 2011 Greenfield, MA-- IJN Executive Director, Tina Foster, presented her topic, National Security and Human Rights under the Obama Administration, as part of the tenth annual Henry Steele Commager lecture series at Greenfield Community College on Monday. The Commager Lecture series commemorates Henry Steele Commager, one of the country’s pre-eminent historians and a long-time professor at Amherst College, and focuses on themes of democracy, civil liberties, and civil rights. She discussed current cases against the US government and issues such as enforced disappearances, torture, rendition, and prolonged arbitrary detention.