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Article: Feeling Insecure?: United States v. Bin Laden and the Merits of a Foreign-Intelligence Exception For Searches Abroad
- Article from:
- The Review of Litigation
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc. Winter 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I. INTRODUCTION
The United States has long enjoyed the protection of vast oceans at its sides and friendly neighbors to the north and south. Geographical buffers, coupled with supreme military strength, provide those within U.S. borders a sense of security enviable in most other parts of the world. Yet the nation's sense of security has been disrupted in a brutal, unprecedented way. The events of September 11, 2001 drove the United States to commence a "war on terror"1 and forced it to reconceptualize ideas of national defense against an amorphous enemy. This atmosphere of insecurity brings a sharp focus to the contours of intelligence collection, both domestically and abroad.2
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