One of the nation's most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, John W. Whitehead is the president of the Rutherford Institute. The author of the bestselling Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, Whitehead also writes a syndicated weekly column, which focuses on tyranny, injustice, the government's use of emerging technologies to oppress the population, resistance, activism, and the tendency of power to corrupt.