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  • Padilla Can't Wait

    Aziz Huq

    Can a U.S. citizen be locked up for three-plus years without access to a court or opportunity to challenge the government’s reasons for detention? Today, the answer in America is a provisional “yes.” And last week the government took one important step toward cementing this “yes” into a permanent power.

    April 11, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances
    Detainee Policy

  • In the Dark on Wiretaps

    Aziz Huq

    Almost four months after The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency is spying on Americans in the United States without obtaining judicial warrants, we still are in the dark about what exactly the president ordered the NSA to do.

    April 4, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Privacy & Profiling
    Checks & Balances

  • Counterterrorism Requires Accountability

    Aziz Huq

    Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nation’s safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our “auxiliary protections,” have recently faltered.

    March 9, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances
    Detainee Policy

  • Counterterrorism Requires Accountability

    Aziz Huq

    TomPaine.com
    Thursday, March 09, 2006

    Counterterrorism Requires Accountability
    by Aziz Huq

    Time and again, we the people learn too late a measure ranked as essential to the nations safety is grounded on shifting factual sands. The founders of our nation, of course, anticipated the risk that government, in pursuing security, would overreach and err. What is dangerous is that the constitutional mechanisms crafted to identify, expose and check such foul-ups, which James Madison famously called our auxiliary protections, have recently faltered.

    March 9, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Checks & Balances

  • At the NSA, the Enemy is Us

    Aziz Huq

    President Bush famously said that his administration took the battle overseas so that we would not need to fight the war at home. Revelations about the NSA’s warrantless domestic spying suggest that this formulation has the administration’s logic backward: The authority to conduct war elsewhere has been treated as permission to bring the tools of war back home.

    March 2, 2006
    Liberty & National Security
    Privacy & Profiling
    Checks & Balances

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