This collection of articles addresses the conflict between the protection of civil liberties and the maintenance of national security in the face of terrorist threats. Aiming to make a balanced presentation of the issues, the volume contains selections ranging from the ACLU's critique of the USA Patriot Act to a defense by its chief architect.
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M. KATHERINE B. DARMER is associate professor at the Chapman University School of Law and formerly an Assistant United States Attorney in New York City.
ROBERT M. BAIRD is a professor and chair of the philosophy department at Baylor University. He is editor with Stuart E. Rosenbaum of Prometheus's Contemporary Issues series.
STUART E. ROSENBAUM is a professor and director of graduate studies in philosophy at Baylor University. He is editor with Robert M. Baird of Prometheus's Contemporary Issues series and the editor of PRAGMATISM AND RELIGION.
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This review is from: Civil Liberties Vs. National Security in a Post 9/11 World (Prometheus's Contemporary Issues) (Paperback)
This book gives an excellent review of the many issues presently being debated concerning the balance between civil liberties and an effective national security. The essays that the editors have chosen are concise and cogent arguments for the different positions. It is very easy to pick up and read one essay at a time right before bed. Overall, a worthwhile purchase for anyone interested in an accessible analysis of the divergent viewpoints on this issue. While not the most in depth book available, it definitely gives a decent analysis of the key issues from racial profiling to torture to surveillance. Recommended for those with an interest in this debate.
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After September 11, 2001, questions that had preoccupied the country the prior year seemed trivial; the terrorist events rendered virtually irrelevant the question of whether the new millennium started in the year 2000 or the year 2001. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonlethal torture, ticking bomb case, ticking bomb terrorist, interrogating suspected terrorists, custodian rule, detain enemy combatants, authorizing torture, inherent constitutional authority, proper respondent, habeas statute, severe mental pain, express congressional authorization, torture warrants, interrogation practices, habeas petition, inter arma silent leges, internment cases, generalized stereotypes, total information awareness, material witness warrant, enemy belligerents, data surveillance, military detentions, unlawful combatants, necessity defense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, World War, Fourth Amendment, Japanese Americans, Court of Appeals, Washington Post, Middle Eastern, Fourth Circuit, Non-Detention Act, Civil War, Southern District, Secretary of Defense, Secretary Rumsfeld, Force Resolution, The Prize Cases, Geneva Convention, Jose Padilla, Second Circuit, Chief Judge Mukasey, Suspension Clause, Articles of War, European Convention, First Amendment, Justice Black New!
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After September 11, 2001, questions that had preoccupied the country the prior year seemed trivial; the terrorist events rendered virtually irrelevant the question of whether the new millennium started in the year 2000 or the year 2001. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonlethal torture, ticking bomb case, ticking bomb terrorist, interrogating suspected terrorists, custodian rule, detain enemy combatants, authorizing torture, inherent constitutional authority, proper respondent, habeas statute, severe mental pain, express congressional authorization, torture warrants, interrogation practices, habeas petition, inter arma silent leges, internment cases, generalized stereotypes, total information awareness, material witness warrant, enemy belligerents, data surveillance, military detentions, unlawful combatants, necessity defense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, World War, Fourth Amendment, Japanese Americans, Court of Appeals, Washington Post, Middle Eastern, Fourth Circuit, Non-Detention Act, Civil War, Southern District, Secretary of Defense, Secretary Rumsfeld, Force Resolution, The Prize Cases, Geneva Convention, Jose Padilla, Second Circuit, Chief Judge Mukasey, Suspension Clause, Articles of War, European Convention, First Amendment, Justice Black New!
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- All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime by William H. Rehnquist in Front Matter, and page 156
- Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork on page 112
- United States of America: Tchrs' by Peter Care on page 45
- The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti on page 115
- Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom by Cynthia Brown on page 31
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