Posted by David Rittgers on May 26, 2010
By David Rittgers
Behavioral screening is a useful tool in deterring and preventing terrorist attacks. As I noted in this piece at Politico, a border patrol agent successfully used behavioral screening to stop the would-be Millennium Bomber. She noticed something “hinky” about a man driving south across the Canadian border. That “hinky” – fidgety and nervous behavior when [...]
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Tags: behavioral screening, bruce schneier, Counterterrorism, department of homeland security, Law and Civil Liberties, millennium bomber, suspicious behavior, terrorism, TSA | 
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Posted by David Rittgers on May 20, 2010
By David Rittgers
First, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia.
Next, they will [...]
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Tags: civil liberties, Comstock, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy and National Security, habeas corpus petitions, jack goldsmith, joseph lieberman, justice antonin scalia, justice clarence thomas, Law and Civil Liberties, Lindsey Graham, national security court, neal katyal, preventive detention, Scott Brown, Senator John McCain, terrorism | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on May 19, 2010
By David Rittgers
The attempted Times Square bombing prompted Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Scott Brown (R-MA) to propose that anyone suspected of providing material support, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, to State Department-listed terrorist groups be stripped of their citizenship. As Julian Sanchez points out, existing law provides for expatriation for a number of reasons, [...]
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Tags: Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy and National Security, joseph lieberman, Law and Civil Liberties, material support of terrorism, military commissions, Scott Brown, terrorism, terrorist expatriation act, times square bombing | No Comments »
Posted by Julian Sanchez on May 19, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
As Jeff Stein notes over at the Washington Post, the declassified summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the Christmas underpants bomber ought to sound awfully familiar to anyone who thumbed through the 9/11 Commission’s massive analysis of intelligence failures. Of the 14 points of failure identified by the Senate, one pertains to a [...]
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Tags: computer, failure, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, intelligence, Law and Civil Liberties, law enforcement, law enforcement agencies, surveillance cameras, technology, terror, terrorism, wiretapping, yemen | No Comments »
