Cost of Counterterrorism Book

1 The Perilous Dichotomy 1

Security and Freedom within Constitutional Constraints 4

The Shift in Power Among the Branches of Government 6

The Political, Social, and Economic Costs of Counterterrorist Law 25

The Complexity of Rights and Security 29

2 Indefinite Detention and Coercive Interrogation 33

Controlling Violence in Northern Ireland 35

Meeting the Islamist Threat in the United Kingdom 57

US Detention of Foreign Nationals at Guantanarno Bay 71

Coercive Interrogation and Torture in the Global War on Terror 91

Parallel Costs 111

3 Financial Counterterrorism 122

Paramilitary Funding in Northern Ireland 123

The State's Response 129

Antiterrorist Finance in the United States 146

The Erosion of Complex Rights 168

The Political and Humanitarian Costs 175

4 Privacy and Surveillance 182

Data Protection 206

Surveillance in Public Space 212

The American Surveillance Culture 218

The USA PATRIOT Act and Its Surveillance Provisions 233

Surveillance Operations Under Other Auspices 243

US Data-Mining Operations 256

5 Terrorist Speech and Free Expression 273

Political Speech 276

Knowledge-Based Speech 296

The Secondary Effects of Other Counterterrorism Measures 311

Privileged Speech 317

6 Auxiliary Precautions 333

Re-Empowering the Legislature 336

Beyond the Dichotomy 359

Notes 361

Index 469