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Liberty and Security Committee report examines First Amendment issues raised by immediate response to 9/11 including refusal to disclose names of individuals arrested in investigations, weakening FOIA, and FBI surveillance of religious and political gatherings. Committee recommends reforms to safeguard First Amendment rights.
Research article describing constitutional framework and current state laws on wiretapping done for TCP's Liberty and Security Committee.
Appendix A to article on state wiretap laws outlining each state's actual current laws.
Appendix B to article on state wiretap laws outlining pending wiretap legislation in various states.
Liberty and Security Committee report examines constitutional issues of executive power with establishing domestic military command, and military conducting intelligence operations.
The report of the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Initiative delineates the concerns raised by the proposed use of military tribunals to try terrorism suspects. The central recommendation of the Initiative’s blue-ribbon panel is that the jurisdiction of the military tribunals be limited to trials of combatants captured overseas on the battlefield.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sitting en banc narrowly overturned a three-judge panel that held that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal permanent resident in the U.S. accused of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent, should either be freed or charged as a civilian. Amici The Constitution Project and the Rutherford Institute urge the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the Bush administration' s indefinite military detention without charge of a legal U.S. resident.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sitting en banc narrowly overturned a three-judge panel that held that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal permanent resident in the U.S. accused of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent, should either be freed or charged as a civilian. Amici The Constitution Project and the Rutherford Institute urge the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the Bush administration' s indefinite military detention without charge of a legal U.S. resident.
