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Terrorism and the Constitution - Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security
Terrorism and the Constitution - Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security 

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In this vivid and important critique of the government's response to terrorism, a prominent constitutional scholar and one of the nation's leading experts on privacy warn that civil liberties are being needlessly sacrificed without effectively protecting national security.

By comparing recent antiterrorism measures to previous abuses - anticommunist tactics of the 1950s, FBI spying on civil rights activists of U.S. foreign during the 1980s and 1990s - the authors eerily reveal how the Bush administration is repeating the mistakes of the past, expanding the powers of government agencies in ways that are neither necessary nor desirable in an allegedly free society.

This fully revised and updated edition includes extensive revisions and a new final section evaluating the government's post-9/11 "war on terrorism." The authors cogently criticize the Patriot Act and the full range of executive measures violating civil liberties at home and abroad since 9/11, from ethnic profiling and data mining to preventive detention and torture.

James X. Dempsey, former assistant counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, and David Cole, a law professor and leading civil liberties lawyer, contend that in its response to the attacks of September 11, the Bush administration has already repeated many of the worst mistakes of the past, and is unlikely to make Americans more secure. By comparing recent anti-terrorism measures to law enforcement abuses of the past, the authors make a compelling case against the 1996 and 2001 Anti-Terrorism Acts, both of which offer the FBI far more latitude than is necessary or desirable in a free society.

A new chapter includes a discussion of domestic spying, preventive detention, the many court challenges to post-9/11 abuses, implementation of the PATRIOT ACT, and efforts to reestablish the checks and balances left behind in the rush to strengthen governmental powers.

About the Authors:

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a volunteer staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is also legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He was named one of the top forty-five public sector lawyers under forty-five by The American Lawyer.

James X. Dempsey is executive director at the Center for Democracy and Technology and former assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Constitutional Rights.

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Author David Cole, James X. Dempsey
ISBN# 1-56584-939-6
Type Quality Paperback
Year 2002 (2006 revised edition)
Pages 320
Illustrated no
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