title:
War about terror : civil liberties and national security after 9/11
creator:
Prieto, Daniel B.
contributor:
Council on Foreign Relations.
publisher:
Council on Foreign Relations
date:
Record modified: 2011-09-23
date:
Record created: 2011-09-21
date:
2009
description:
Extent: xiii, 99 p. : digital, PDF file.
description:
Abstract: This study finds that even if the United States successfully solves some of the most high-profile counterterrorism issues on the table, it will still lack a comprehensive, coherent, and sustainable framework for dealing with the strategic challenge posed by transnational terrorism. It argues that sharp disagreements over national security and civil liberties, as well as errors and overreach in U.S. counterterrorism practices, have stood in the way of America's ability to forge a critical and sustainable foreign policy accord on how to address terrorist detention and trials, as well as domestic intelligence policies. The study recommends that the United States reexamine the scope and limits of its war against al-Qaeda, treating national security and the protection of individual liberties as coequal objectives. It calls on Congress and the president to engage these issues in a bipartisan fashion and craft comprehensive long-term counterterrorism policies\n that reaffirm the U.S. commitment to core values. Only then, it argues, will the United States be able to achieve the kind of foreign policy agreement necessary to prevail against the modern terrorist threat.
subject:
Civil rights--United States
subject:
National security--United States
subject:
Detention of persons--Government policy--United States
subject:
Military interrogation--Government policy--United States
subject:
Police questioning--Government policy--United States
subject:
Intelligence service--United States
subject:
Terrorism--United States--Prevention
relation:
OCLC No.: 319001653
type:
application/pdf
type:
Text
type:
PDF-1.6
source:
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Civil_Liberties_WorkingPaper.pdf
language:
eng
rights:
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identifier:
Civil_Liberties_WorkingPaper