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Civil Liberties Resources: Reading Material

Thanks to Xandra Kayden , League of Women Voters of the United States, for this list.


Civil Liberties


The US Constitution and The Federalist Papers

David Cole, Enemy Aliens

David Cole, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

Katherine B. Darmer, et al, Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post 9/11 World

Alfred H. Kelly, ed, Foundations of Freedom in the American Constitution (out of print representation of the League?s Freedom Agenda, occasionally available at www.amazon.com)

Kate Martin and Joe Onek, Enemy Combatants, The Constitution and the Administration?s War on Terror, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism

Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism


Homeland Security

Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Matthew Brzezinski, Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security, an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State

Gavin de Becker, Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism

Stephen E. Flynn, America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World

 

icon U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, also known as the Hart Rudman Commission

Department of Homeland Security

Research and Technology

Government Accounting Office Report on Preparedness of Urban Hospitals

National Center for Disease Control home page on Preparedness and Response


Middle East History and Terrorism History

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Anonymous (Michael Scheuer), Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism

Yossef Bodansky, The High Cost of Peace: How Washington's Middle East Policy Lest America Vulnerable to Terrorism

Efraim Karsh & Inari Karsh, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East: 1789-1923

Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America?s Perilous Path in the Middle East

Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East The Crisis of Islam What Went Wrong?

Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror

Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

Andrew Wheatcroft, Infidels: A History of Conflict between Christendom and Islam Terrorism

Anonymous (Rita Katz), Terrorist Hunter

Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies

Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Terrorism Works

Mark A. Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism

Rohnan Gunaratna, Inside Al Queda

Brian Michael Jenkins, Countering Al Queda: An Appreciation of the Situation and Suggestions for Strategy

Maria Ressa, Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Queda*s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia

Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God


Committee Contacts:

Laurel Munger, ismunger(at)execpc.com

Meg McLane, meom(at)execpc.com

Ellen Rosborough, emr819(at)centurytel.net