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Monday, December 19, 2005

License to Spy

By Aziz Huq

“Mr. President, it is time to have checks and balances in this country. So spoke Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, as he filibustered reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Acts surveillance provisions. It was The New York Times revelation that the National Security Agency, or NSA, was eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mails far beyond its long-standing watch on foreign entities that so provoked Sen. Leahy.
December 19, 2005
Checks & Balances
Liberty & National Security
The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials
Stephen J. Schulhofer, Serrin Turner

This report aims to advance this debate and, along the way, to identify areas in need of congressional action by exploring the central question at stake: How should we reconcile the competing demands of secrecy, fairness, and accurate decision-making in terrorism trials surrounding habeas corpus?

June 7, 2005
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Checks & Balances
Detainee Policy
Exposing Ashcroft's Ethnic Dragnet: U.S. Treatment of Middle Eastern Residents Mirrors the Fate of Those with Japanese Heritage
Jessie Allen

Los Angeles Daily Journal
December 18, 2001

Exposing Ashcroft’s Ethnic Dragnet: U.S. Treatment of Middle Eastern Residents Mirrors the Fate of Those with Japanese Heritage
By Jessie Allen

The Justice Department says there is legal precedent for the President George Bush s order of secret military tribunals for non-citizens suspected of terrorism. Indeed there is. But the most relevant case may be one the government is ashamed to mention.
December 18, 2001
Liberty & National Security
Checks & Balances

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