CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 TERRORISM, PATRIOTISM, and HOMELAND SECURITY The Legal Foundation for the War at Home -- The Bill of Rights -- The 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act -- The USA Patriot Act of 2001 -- What the USA Patriot Act Does -- Passage of the USA Patriot Act -- Beyond the Patriot Act -- The USA Patriot Act under Fire -- Has the USA Patriot Act Done Any Good? -- The Homeland Security Act of 2002 -- 2 THE WAR in the COURTS -- The Moussaoui Case -- American Taliban: John Walker Lindh -- Terrorist Cells -- The Lackawanna Six -- The Detroit Cell -- The Seattle Cell -- The Portland Seven -- The Alexandria Eleven -- The Brooklyn Bridge Bomber -- The Terrorist Professor -- Mohamed Atris -- The Judiciary: Reluctant Arbiters in the War on Civil Liberties -- Yaser Hamdi -- Jose Padilla: Another Court Speaks -- Reconciling the Hamdi and Padilla Cases -- The Supreme Court -- Do We Have an Independent Judiciary? -- 3 THE WAR AGAINST LAWYERS -- Lynne Stewart -- Jesselyn Radack -- Enemy Combatants and Their Lawyers -- 4 GUILT by ASSOCIATION The Islamic Charities -- The Legal Underpinnings -- Freezing Assets -- "Material Support" to Terrorism -- Raids, Closures, and Arrests -- Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development -- Global Relief Foundation -- Benevolence International Foundation -- SAA/SAAR -- Help the Needy -- The Larger Constitutional Issues -- 5 SEIZURES, DETENTIONS, and DEPORTATIONS -- The Legal Basis for Detentions and Deportations -- The Inspector General's Report -- Secret Trials -- Prosecution with a Vengeance: The L.A. Eight -- An Iranian Citizen -- A Canadian Citizen -- An American Citizen in Saudi Arabia -- The Shame of Guantanamo -- What These Detentions Have in Common -- 6 POPULAR RESISTANCE in the WAR on CIVIL LIBERTIES -- Grassroots Resistance.

Congress Responds to the Resistance Movement with the CLEAR Act -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights -- Concern over Guantanamo -- Strange Political Bedfellows in the Resistance Movement -- What You Can Do -- 7 A WAR WITHOUT END -- Terrorism Is a Dangerous Word -- Redefining the Term -- New Crimes of "Terror" -- Absent-Minded Scientist-or Terrorist? -- New Crimes, New Surveillance Laws -- Your Bank and You -- The FBI Is Watching the Web -- Loss of Academic Freedom -- Total Information Awareness -- The America We Have Become . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 -- Are These Unprecedented Times? -- Are We Forever Changed? -- A Lot of Questions, Few Answers -- AFTERWORD: FURTHER UPDATES -- RESOURCES FOR KEEPING CURRENT -- ENDNOTES.