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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David Cole; James X Dempsey |
ISBN: | 1565849396 9781565849396 1565847822 9781565847828 |
OCLC Number: | 63680721 |
Notes: | Dempsey's name appears first on the original 2nd edition. |
Description: | xviii, 302 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Preface to the third edition -- Foreword to the third edition / Nancy Talanian and Kit Gage -- Introduction -- Part I : Investigating First Amendment activities : the FBI before September 2001-- The FBI's investigation of Central American activists, 1981-1985 ; The investigation and attempted deportation of the Los Angeles 8 ; Intelligence investigations from Amnesty International to Earth First! -- Part II : Control vs. discretion : the limits of legal restrictions on the FBI's authority -- Mechanisms for control of the FBI ; Reform and retrenchment ; Constitutional limits-the role of the judiciary -- Part III : The 1996 Antiterrorism Act : curtailing civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism -- Prologue to the 1996 Antiterrorism Act ; The 1996 Antiterrorism Act's central provisions ; The impact of the 1996 act -- Part IV: After 9/11 : fighting a war on terror, at home and abroad ; New challenges, old dilemmas ; Detention and interrogation ; The Patriot Act -- unleashing government spying, reducing oversight ; Casting a broad net, catching few big fish ; Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | David Cole, James X. Dempsey ; foreword by Nancy Talanian and Kit Gage. |
Abstract:
"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."--Jacket.
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