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Spying On The Home Front
PBS's FRONTLINE asks "In a permanent war against a
hidden enemy, how far has the government gone in hunting terrorists by
watching us?"
"9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting
to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and
body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrutiny of people's
records and electronic surveillance of their communications. The
watershed, officials tell FRONTLINE, was the government's shift after
9/11 to a strategy of pre-emption at home -- not just prosecuting
terrorists for breaking the law, but trying to find and stop them before
they strike.
President Bush described his anti-terrorist measures as narrow and
targeted, but a FRONTLINE investigation has found that the National
Security Agency (NSA) has engaged in wiretapping and sifting Internet
communications of millions of Americans; the FBI conducted a data sweep
on 250,000 Las Vegas vacationers, and along with more than 50 other
agencies, they are mining commercial-sector data banks to an
unprecedented degree."
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Report on Retroactive Immunity
Report from the Congressional Research Service on
"Retroactive Immunity Provided by the FISA
Amendments Act of 2008"
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Right
to Habeus Corpus
The Boumediene et al v. Bush
decision - SCOTUS
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Federalist Society
Debate on Boumediene (Habeus Rights)
Participants:
Andrew McBride Partner - Wiley Rein LLP Timothy Lynch - Cato Institute - Director, Project on Criminal Justice Bradford Berenson - Partner - Sidley Austin LLP Marty Lederman - Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University
Law Center
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Ensuring Access to Justice for Detainees in the ‘War on Terror’
2008
ACS National Convention
- This 1 1/2 hour discussion occurred the day after the Supreme Court
ruled on Habeus for Detainees.
Panelists:
Judge Marsha Berzon U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit James Carafano, Assistant Director, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage
Foundation Joanne Mariner, Director of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program,
Human Rights Watch Alberto Mora, V.P. and General Counsel, International Division of
Wal-Mart, Inc. Deborah Pearlstein, LAPA Visiting Scholar, Princeton University Benjamin Wittes, Fellow & Research Director in Public Law, The Brookings
Institute
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Military Commissions
Act
An ACS Issue Brief
Guantanamo is Here: The Military Commissions Act
and Noncitizen Vulnerability by Prof. Muneer I. Ahmad - American
University Washington School of Law
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Military Tribunals
A Call to Protect Civilian
Justice: Beware the Creep of Military Tribunals.
Prof. Anthony F. Renzo, Vermont Law School
An ACS Issue Brief |
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Preserving Rule of Law
in America's Prisons
Preserving the Rule of Law in America's Prisons:
The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act. (An
ACS Issue Brief)
Prof. Margo Schlanger Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Prof Giovanna Shay Robert M Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow, Yale Law
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