SS464 Domestic Counterterrorism Resources

Federation of American Scientists (FAS) website on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 -- includes useful links on PATRIOT Act's impact on FISA

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) FISA page

USA PATRIOT Act

Department of Justice. Report from the Field: the USA PATRIOT Act at Work, July 2004.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report RL31377. USA PATRIOT Act: A Legal Analysis, April 15, 2002.

CRS Report RL32186. USA PATRIOT Act Sunset: Provisions that Expire on December 31, 2005, January 27, 2005.

Thompson, Larry D. “9-11 Commission Findings: Sufficiency of Time, Attention, and Legal Authority,” Testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, August 11, 2004.

Hook, Brian H., Margaret J. A. Peterlin, and Peter L. Walsh. "The USA PATRIOT Act and Information Sharing Between the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities" in Howard, Forest, Moore, Homeland Security and Terrorism, Chapter 25.

ACLU Patriot Act website

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and EPIC's PATRIOT Act webpage

Enemy Combatant Designation

"U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules," Jerry Markon, Washington Post, 10 Sep 05. For background on this landmark case, which we will discuss during the domestic counterterrorism block:

President Bush's Legal Position on Executive's Constitutional Power to Hold Padilla, June 9, 2002.

"US a Battlefield," Washington Post, 20 Jul 05.

"Padilla Appeal to be Heard," Washington Post, 19 Jul 05.

CATO Institute editorial, Aug 2003

Watchlisting and Screening

Progress in Consolidating Terrorist Watchlists - The Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). Prepared Statement of Jerry Berman, President of the Center For Democracy & Technology before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security

Statement of Russell E. Travers to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States, January 26, 2004

Biometrics Catalog.com

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT)

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Terrorist Financing

Ehrenfeld, Rachel. Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It (Chicago, IL: Bonus Books), 2003.

Farah, Douglas. Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (New York: Broadway Books), 2004.

Kochan, Nick. The Washing Machine: How Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Soils Us (Mason, OH: Texere), 2005.

Department of the Treasury, Terrorism and Financial Intelligence website

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN)

Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001: Blocking Property & Prohibiting Transactions with Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism.

Financial Action Task Force

9-11 Commission Monograph on Terrorist Financing

GAO Report on Investigating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

GAO Report on Terrorist Financing

Council on Foreign Relations Report on Terrorist Financing

Executive Order 13099 - Prohibiting Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process (20 Aug 1998)