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Article: Without Civil Liberties, Homeland Security Will Fail -- by Lee Strickland.
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- AScribe Law News Service
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- December 23, 2005
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Byline: University of Maryland, College Park
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an op-ed essay by Lee Strickland, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Information Policy.
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Without Civil Liberties, Homeland Security Will Fail
When the government's war on terror forgets our civil liberties, it does so at our peril, weakening our homeland security.
Consider the latest and unnecessary example: the directives allowing the National Security Agency to intercept the telephone and Internet communications of Americans without a court warrant. The day the news broke, the Senate blocked ...