| Description |
xiii, 99 pages : digital, PDF file |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Notes |
February 2009 |
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At head of title: Working paper |
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Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Civil_Liberties_WorkingPaper.pdf on September 21, 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-97) |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States.
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National security -- United States.
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Detention of persons -- Government policy -- United States
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Military interrogation -- Government policy -- United States
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Police questioning -- Government policy -- United States
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention
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Civil rights.
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Detention of persons -- Government policy.
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Intelligence service.
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National security.
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Terrorism -- Prevention.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Council on Foreign Relations.
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