Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy (55 page)

Searches and seizures, 19, 33, 77, 83, 85, 90, 101, 105, 110, 132, 163, 165

Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
See
Courts of Appeal, U.S.

Secrecy, 16, 19, 54, 70, 72, 112, 129, 130, 132, 140, 149, 151–152, 154, 157, 160, 164, 169, 170, 171, 173, 177, 178, 185, 186, 189, 193, 198–202

Secretary of Defense, U.S., 194

Section 215, Patriot Act, 120–135, 137–138, 145, 147, 148, 149, 155, 158, 159

Section 505, Patriot Act, 137, 148

Secure Flight program, 74, 76

“
See
Something, Say Something,” 84, 90

Seizure of assets, 6, 10, 54, 56

Senate Judiciary Committee, 66, 73, 135, 148, 149, 170, 173, 195

Shah of Iran, 39

Shaw, John, 73

Shortcuts, procedural, 43, 53, 160, 163

Sierra Club, 93

Sixth Amendment.
See
United States Constitution

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
See
Courts of Appeal, U.S.

Sleeper cells, 5, 26, 111, 209

Smith v. Maryland
, 131

Sneak and peak warrants, 10, 113–114

Social activism, 177

Solicitor General, U.S., 7

Solove, Daniel, 101

Somalia, 60

Sotomayor, Sonia (Justice), 48, 156

Southern District of New York, 156

Soviet Union, 105, 111, 114

Spain, 4, 75, 105

“Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” 51–56, 91

Specially Designated Nationals watchlist, 91

Spy program, 166, 168

Spying on Americans, 175, 195, 214

Sri Lanka, 45, 49, 54

Standing, 15, 23, 30, 42, 70, 71, 115, 128, 129, 130, 167–168, 178, 179, 180, 181–182, 183, 204, 205

Stanford University, 72

Stasi.
See
East German Stasi

State Department, U.S., 40, 41, 42, 210

Steger, John, 23, 27, 29, 31–32, 37, 212

Stern, Jessica, Council on Foreign Relations, 47, 49

Stone, Geoffrey, 11, 18, 207

Sultan, Jangir, 82, 84

Subway checkpoint program, 4, 14, 82–85

Sunset hearings, Patriot Act, 2012, 176, 185

Sunsetting provisions, Patriot Act, 119, 125, 134, 148, 176, 185

Supremacy Clause.
See
United States Constitution

Supreme Court, U.S., 7, 11, 14–15, 35, 36, 45–46, 48, 49, 52, 72, 73, 84, 85, 110–111, 112, 114, 116, 117–118, 119–120, 130–133, 144, 145, 156, 158, 161, 170, 178, 179, 198, 200–201, 203–208, 216

Surveillance, 6, 19, 24, 111, 112, 116, 165, 172

Suspicious Activity Reporting, 90

Swift banking consortium, 64, 97

Syria, 204

Tamil organizations, 54

Tareen, Rubina, 70

Taylor, Anna Diggs (Judge), 178, 208

Telecommunications, 3, 7, 18, 97, 132, 163, 166–167, 176, 179, 214

Telephone companies, 131, 161

Telephone logs, 131, 153

Tenth Amendment.
See
United States Constitution

Terkel, Studs, 179, 185

Terrorism financing, 25, 51, 54, 58, 60, 63–64, 86–87, 95, 97

Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), 88, 90–91, 93, 95

Terrorist attacks, 189, 191

Terrorist Screening Center, 68

Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), 166–167, 179, 212

Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
See
Courts of Appeal, U.S.

Thompson, Bennie G. (Representative, U.S.), 79

“Threat matrix,” 192

TIPS.
See
Terrorism Information and Prevention System

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 212

Torture, 8, 39, 194, 204, 205, 206, 212

Total Information Awareness, 96, 98, 101, 167

Totalitarianism, 91, 95

Trade secrets, 134

TRAC.
See
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), 38

Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S., 10, 11, 66–85, 190, 191

Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP), 70

Treasury Department, U.S., 52, 55–56, 59, 62, 87, 93, 94

TSA.
See
Transportation Security Administration

TSP.
See
Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP)

Tyranny, 120

U.K. Charity Commission, 58

U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights While Countering Terrorism, 49

Unitarians, 93

United Nations, 44, 59–60

United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 44

“United States person,” 111, 162

United States v. Miller
, 131–133, 153, 159, 161

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT Act),
passim

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 63

Unreasonable searches and seizures.
See
United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment

USA Today
, 147, 167

United States Constitution, generally, 6, 8, 11, 14–17, 20, 30, 32, 43, 48, 53, 63, 71, 80, 97, 100, 101, 121, 132, 139, 156, 158, 167, 168, 189, 193, 195, 201, 206–207, 209, 210–218

Article II, 32, 169, 202

Article III, 32, 43, 52, 202

Due Process Clause, 30, 55

Equal Protection Clause, 13, 55, 77

Fifth Amendment, 71, 100, 109, 126

First Amendment,

Free Exercise of Religion, 10, 61–65, 71, 101–211

Free Exercise of Speech and Association, 9, 10, 15, 18, 20, 23, 27–32, 37, 38, 39–50, 61, 63, 71, 78, 90, 101, 121, 122, 125–127, 130, 136, 139, 141, 146, 151, 152, 155, 156–159, 160–161, 165, 190, 200, 201, 202, 207, 211, 212, 216, 217

Freedom of the Press, 200, 212

Right of Access to Judicial Proceedings, 20, 141, 200, 201, 202, 212

Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances, 212

Fourth Amendment, 19, 36, 37, 55, 57, 71, 77, 78, 83–85, 90, 98, 101, 105, 109–120, 122, 130–133, 134, 149, 151–153, 159, 161, 163, 165, 169, 179, 184, 217

Fifth Amendment, Right to Remain Silent, 100

Preamble, 20, 32, 211

Sixth Amendment, 32, 165, 212

Right to Counsel, 165

Right to Jury Trial, 43, 52

Supremacy Clause, 124, 213

Tenth Amendment, 213

Vandals, University of Idaho, 33

Verizon, 161, 176

Virginia, 33, 34, 36, 141, 208, 213, 215

Walker, Vaughn (Judge), 34, 179–180, 181, 182, 183, 208

“War on Terror,” 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 14–19, 43, 53, 71, 84, 86, 97, 136, 190, 192, 193, 201, 203, 209, 211, 212, 214, 215, 217

War Times
, 71

Warde, Ibrahim, 63

Warrantless spying, 7, 111, 180

Warren Court, 120

Washburn, Steve, 75, 81

Washington Post
, 80, 86, 98, 144, 150, 152, 153, 163, 181

Watchlists, 18, 73, 91

Welles–Turner Memorial Library, 136, 139

Western Union, 89, 96

Westin, Alan, 99, 100

West Virginia v. Barnette
, 208

Whatcom, 146

Whitehead, John, 66

Whole body imaging scanners, 17, 78–81, 85, 190

WiFi, 154, 161

WikiLeaks, 63

Wiretapping, 106, 113, 175, 180

Wizner, Ben, 102, 206

World Trade Center, 12, 139

World War II, 11, 84, 164, 207–208, 214–215, 217

Wright, Lawrence, 174–176

Wyden, Ron (Senator, U.S.), 135

Yoo, John, 105, 168–172

Zinn, Howard, 209

Zuberi, Faizah, 89, 92