Documents tagged with terrorism and homeland security

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Al-Marri v. Commander Daniel Spagone, U.S.N., Consolidated Naval Brig, Cato Legal Briefs

No. 08-368 ========================= ========================= ============== In The Supreme Court of the United States ------------------------- --------♦---------------- ----------------ALI SALEH K...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining, Cato Policy Analysis

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, spurred extraordinary efforts intended to protect America from the newly highlighted scourge of international terrorism. Among the efforts was the c...
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The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence, Cato Polic

Executive Summary It appears increasingly likely that the Bush administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will fail to prevent Iran from going nuclear and that the United States will have t...
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Suicide Terrorism and Democracy: What We’ve Learned Since 9/11, Cato Policy Analysis No. 582

Executive Summary Over the past two decades, terrorist organizations have increasingly relied on suicide attacks to achieve political objectives. The specific goal sought in almost all suicid...
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Doublespeak and the War on Terrorism, Cato Briefing Paper No. 98

Five years have passed since the catastrophic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Those attacks ushered in the war on terror. Since some high-ranking government officials and pundits are n...
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Reappraising Nuclear Security Strategy, Cato Policy Analysis No. 571

Executive Summary The danger posed by Russia's inadequately secured stocks of nuclear weapons and fissile material is a major national security concern for the United States. Various cooperativ...
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Salim Ahmed Hamdan v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Cato Legal Briefs

No. 05-184 ========================= ========================= ============== In The Supreme Court of the United States ------------------------- --------♦---------------- ----------------SALIM AHMED...
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The Security Pretext: An Examination of the Growth of Federal Police Agencies, Cato Briefing Pa

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, bureaucrats and special interest groups have been busy repackaging everything from peanut subsidies to steel protectionism under the rubric of "n...
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies: Defending against the Threat of Shoulder-Fired Missiles, Cato Poli

Executive Summary Shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, or MANPADS (man-portable air defense systems), have proliferated throughout the world. They can be purchased on the military arms bla...
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$400 Billion Defense Budget Unnecessary to Fight War on Terrorism Cato Policy Analysi

Executive Summary President Bush signed a $417.5 billion defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2005 on August 5,2004. With the addition of an $82 billion supplemental for military operatio...
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Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation, Cato Policy Analys

Executive Summary During the Cold War, the principal function of nuclear weapons was to deter nuclear attack. Nuclear deterrence was not considered a tool of nonproliferation. The primary mechan...
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Donald H. Rumsfeld v. Jose Padilla and Donna R. Newman, as Next Friend of Jose Padilla, Br

No. 03-1027 ========================= ========================= ============== In The Supreme Court of the United States ------------------------- --------♦---------------- ----------------DONALD H. ...
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The Syria Accountability Act: Taking the Wrong Road to Damascus, Cato Policy Ana

Executive Summary On December 12, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, a law designed to pressure Syrian presi...
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Education and Indoctrination in the Muslim World: Is There a Problem? What Can W

Executive Summary This paper describes the threat posed to U.S. national security by militant schools in less-developed nations, evaluates current policies for dealing with that threat,...
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Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front, Cato Poli

Executive Summary As its overwhelming victories in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated, the U.S. military is the most effective fighting force in human history. It is so effective, i...
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Bush's National Security Strategy Is a Misnomer, Cato Policy Analysis No. 496

Executive Summary The Constitution of the United States of America makes clear that one of the paramount responsibilities of the federal government is to "provide for the common defense...
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Smallpox and Bioterrorism: Why the Plan to Protect the Nation Is Stalled and Wha

Executive Summary The Iraq war is over, no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have yet been found, and the president's smallpox plan, though sound, is running out of steam. Instead of be...
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Missile Defense: Defending America or Building Empire?, Cato Foreign Policy Brie

Executive Summary The rationale for missile defense put forward by its advocates is often a "doom and gloom" picture: America and its citizens are defenseless against the threat of ball...
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A Grand Façade: How the Grand Jury Was Captured by Government, Cato Policy

Executive Summary The grand jury is perhaps the most mysterious institution in the American criminal justice system. While most people are generally familiar with the function of the po...
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Extremist, Nuclear Pakistan: An Emerging Threat?, Cato Policy Analysis No. 472

Executive Summary Since the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, a wide range of actions has been taken by the Bush administration to neutralize the terrorist infrastructure ...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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