Chapter 1 - Introduction
What did de Tocqueville mean when he said that Americans confused the question of the existence of a power with the wisdom of its use?
Chapter 2 - Providing for the ‘‘Common Defense’’: The Original Understanding
What is Formal War?
What is Informal War?
What were letters of marque and reprisal?
What was the role of the states versus the federal government in the Articles of Confederation?
Why did this make it difficult to govern the country?
Why is defensive war a special philosophical and religious issue?
What fundamental change in the organization of the military was not anticipated by the drafters and which undermines the Constitutional control of war making?
Why does it matter that the congress can now allow a war to be started without having to do it themselves?
Chapter 3 - The Gloss of History: An Introduction to the Separation of National Security Powers
Is Youngstown strong precedent, or just a case driven by special facts?
The Korean War
Did the US declare war in Korea?
What was the role of the UN?
What is the current status of North Korea?
Youngstown - Legal Framework
Did Congress authorize the seizure of the steel industry?
The Taft-Hartley Act 
What can the president do under the Act to deal with a strike?
Does this provision amount to an implicit rejection of other interventions, such as injunctions?
Congressional Inaction
How can the president make law by "going first"?
What are the reasons for congressional inaction?
Do they all equally support president action?
What Constitutes Congressional Acquiescence?
Does it matter if Congress considers the matter after the president acts and still does not pass legislation?
What if they pass legislation on the topic and do not address the president's actions
What if this has been going on for a long time, since the early Congress?
Why does acquiescence by the early Congress matter more?
Private Claims Affecting Foreign Policy
How can these effect diplomacy?
What about prosecutions of heads of state?
The President's Emergency Powers Post Youngstown
What are examples of emergency powers that were used post 9/11?
Does Youngstown pose a real obstacle to presidential emergency powers?
Chapter 4 - The President’s National Security Powers
What is a delegation question?
Why does the court have different standards for delegation of foreign versus domestic powers.
What is the "sole organ" doctrine?
Should there be a different standard for foreign affairs than domestic governance, and why?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Congressional Role in Foreign Policy
How can Congress affect foreign policy?
Can it forbid specific actions?
The Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863) - 67
What precipitated this case?
Why didn't the president go to Congress for a declaration of war?
What did the president order?
What is the plaintiff trying to get in this case?
The Legal Background
Where does the law of prize and capture come from?
What is the legal prerequisite to legally seizing ships at a blockade?
The Pullman strike
What where Pullman cars?
What were Pullman porters?
Why would their strike affect the mails?
How was the legal basis for the president's injunction to stop the strike different from that in Youngstown?
What does this mean: Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives. A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere. Sovereignty is never held in suspense.
What did Lincoln mean when he asked whether we can save the Constitution but lose the nation.
What does it mean to say that the president has the power, but not the legal authority, to act in domestic emergencies?
US v. Nixon
What if the president had destroyed the tapes before anyone had asked for them?
Why can't he do it after the grand jury subpoena?
Did they make Nixon surrender the tapes?
Would it have mattered if this had been a congressional subpoena, rather than a grand jury subpoena?
Chapter 5 - Congressional National Security Powers
How was the country different in 1800 from today as regards the relative power of congress versus the president to wage war?
What resources did the president have available then and now?
How does this affect the basic shift of powers?
Declaration of War
Procedurally, how does congress declare war?
Is the presentment clause involved?
Can the president veto a declaration of war?
Is there a constitutional provision for ending a declared war?
If war is ended by treaty, what is the role of Congress?
What if the president just quits fighting the war?
When would the contingent authority and international law dominos revert to a pre-war state?
Did we sign a peace treaty in Viet Nam?
Imperfect War
What is an imperfect war?
How do you know you are in an imperfect war?
Does an imperfect war create a legal enemy?
Does an imperfect war create the same legal domino effects as a declared war?
What are examples of the the Legal Domino Effects of War?
The Authorization of Force after 9/11
Did Congress declare war on al Quada?
Can congress declare a war on an enterprise, rather than a country?
How does the war on terror differ from previous declarations of war?
Should such a declaration trigger the usual war measures, including international law issues?
What is the vagueness problem for foreign countries and their citizens?
Appropriations as Evidence of Authorization for Executive Actions
How do you argue that an appropriation bill is also an authorization bill for specific executive powers?
Why does the modern budget process undermine this assumption?
What do you look to in the appropriations bill to support an authorization argument?
Proclamation No. 7463, Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks 66 Fed. Reg. 48,199 (Sept. 14, 2001)
What is the legal purpose of this declaration?
What ends a state of national emergency?
What was the Feed and Forage Act of 1861 intended to authorize?
How did Nixon use the Feed and Forage Act of 1861?
Emergency Powers Laws
Is it better for Congress to give the President broad powers in an emergency or to let the presidents use his intrinsic powers?
How does a statute change subsequent review?
Can it embolden the president?
Investigatory Powers
Does the constitution specifically give Congress the power to investigate and force witnesses to testify?
Has congress done this for a long time?
Why does it matter that it has been going on since the beginning?
Who does the enforcement for subpoenas?
Why is this a special problem with executive branch witnesses?
Getting Information from the Executive
What is a resolution of inquiry?
Who are they directed at?
What is the compliance problem?
Why was the appeals court in the American Telephone & Telegraph case reluctant to order the executive branch to comply?
Would this be a political question?
Why was enforcement simpler in Nixon v. US?
May Congress use Appropriations to Control Foreign Policy?
What is the problem in enforcing this?
What if congress just shuts down the state department?
Why do the use of omnibus bills make it difficult to fight about specific appropriations riders?
If congress is prohibited from using appropriations to mess with foreign policy, does it follow that the president may divert money from other appropriations to accomplish foreign policy purposes?
Chapter 6 - The role of the Judiciary
The Problem of Standards for War Powers Cases
Does the constitution clearly prevent the president from using troops to invade other countries?
Has the president done this without a declaration of war since the beginning?
What standard could a court use to decide that a military action is illegal?
Why does being against a law passed by Congress not solve the problem?
What does Judicial Abstention Mean to Separation of Powers?
Who "wins" when the court invokes political question abstention in a war powers case?
Does this shift the balance of powers between the branches of the government?
Is this better than the separation of powers problem posed if the court intervened in a war powers case?
Are the courts right to stay out of war powers cases?
The Kent State Shootings
Who shot whom?
Who did the shooters work for?
Which branch did the court think should be investigating the Guard?
What provision of the constitution did the court base its ruling on?
What outcome was the court avoiding, i.e., what happens if the troopers had been properly ordered to shoot the students?
Treaties
How are treaties ratified?
Are the legally effective before they are ratified?
How does the constitution specify that treaties are revoked?
What did Carter do that involved revoking provisions of a treaty?
Congressional Standing
When does Tribe think congressman should have standing?
What does it mean that a presidential action nullified a congressional vote?
What recourse does Congress always have?
Why does Scalia think that congressmen should never have standing in their official capacity?
In general, why is the role of the courts so limited as regards illegal wars and fights in congress over war powers?
Chapter 7 - The Domestic Effect of International Law
What 4 factors  Make a Treaty?
Enforcing Treaties
What is the international law significance of a treaty?
What happens if a country does not honor a treaty?
How are international trade rules enforced?
Is there an international law enforcement system for other treaties?
What mechanisms can be used, short of war, for multilateral treaties such as the those deal with atomic energy?
Senate Ratification
What is the legal effect of ratification?
What does advice and consent mean?
Was the senate meant to participate in drafting treaties?
What is the downside to senate participation?
What if the senate will not ratify without changes?
Does this undermine the president's constitutional right to negotiate treaties?
What is fast track?
How do we decide that a treaty means?
What did the president want to use to justify reinterpreting the ABM treaty?
What is Biden's complaint?
How is amending a treaty different from terminating it?
The President's Role
What are the president's dual roles in treaties?
Why is president's role more important in international law?
What is the best evidence of the meaning of the treaty?
Do Treaties supersede the Constitution? - Reid v. Covert, 354 US 1 (1957)
What constitutional provision do the defendants say was violated?
What does the treaty provide?
May treaties override the constitution?
What did the court say about a subsequent statute overriding a treaty?
Why can soldiers be tried in military courts?
Can the US escape the consequences of violating a treaty by abrogating the treaty?
What do treaties depend on for enforcement?
Does International Law Count?
Who can be a party in the International court of Justice?
Does this create individual standing in US courts?
Self-Executing Treaties
What is a self-executing treaty?
What are limits on self-executing treaties?
What happens when the president abrogates a self-executing treaty?
Treaties that Require Congressional Action
What do you have to do to abrogate the effect of these treaties?
The Domestic Legal Effect of Customary International Law and Jus Cogens
Can a plaintiff get a US court to issue an order enforcing these agreements, absent any authorization in the form of a statute, i.e., if they have not been executed by Congress?
Jus Cogens
What is jus cogens?
How is it established?
How does jus cogens transcend the consent of states?
ICJ Judgments and Customary International Law
‘‘Customary international law results from a general and consistent practice of states followed by them from a sense of legal obligation.’’ Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law §102(2) (1987)
Why do ICJ Judgments fail this test?
Do all nations accept them?
What does the revised Restatement acknowledges as two categories of Universal Norms?
History of the Alien Tort Statute
What claims were the Framers familiar with?
When the original Alien Tort Statute (ATS) was passed, who did congress envision using it?
Were there many cases before Filartiga?
Does Snatching Alvarez Violate Long Accepted Norms?
Is Arbitrary Arrest a Violation of International Norms?
Customary International Law
What is customary international law?
Is there a generally agreed to codification?
What is the chief argument for executive power to override customary international law?

Chapter 8 - General War
The Tokin Gulf Resolution
How is the Tokin Gulf incident like WMDs in the Iraq war?
Is the Tokin Gulf Resolution a declaration of war?
Is it anything at all, legally?
If not, what does that tell us about presidential power?
Why didn't it matter when Congress repealed the Tokin Gulf Amendment?
What did Congress keep doing?
What were the Pentagon Papers?
Chapter 9 - War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution
What is the purpose of the Resolution?
What is Congress claiming about its right to control presidential powers?
What does Congress want consultation to mean?
What do presidents think it means?
How does it attempt to turn all mutual defense treaties into non-self-executing treaties?
What treaty military actions did it leave unaffected?
Why did Nixon's veto undermine the original intent of the resolution?
Why doesn't Congress want to vote on cutting off presidential action?
Crockett v. Reagan, 558 F. Supp. 893, 901 (D.D.C. 1982), aff’d, 720 F.2d 1355 (D.C. Cir. 1983)
What did the court say about whether courts should be ordering the president to pull out troops?
What are the problems with a court-ordered troop withdrawal?
Chapter 10 - Unilateral Self-Defense and Rescue
Unilateral Use of Force
What are the three classic justifications for the use of unilateral power?
Does this extend to protecting citizens abroad?
Pirates and Private War
Why were there fewer restrictions on using force against pirates and aborigines?
Are pirates a better analogy for the war on terror than is general war?
Is Imperfect War a Political Question?
Is the exercise of the imperfect war power simply negotiated between the political branches? 
Provocation
What is the problem of presidential provocation?
How can presidents provoke attacks within the legal confines of the WPR?
Was the Gulf of Tokin incident a fraudulent provocation?
What about sinking the Maine in the Spanish American War?
The Hostage Act
Why did the United States Supreme Court decide that the Hostage Act did not apply?
Why are the actions of local Navy commanders who are on the scene of attacks limited to: self-defense, ‘‘exercised only as a last resort, and then only to the extent which is absolutely necessary to accomplish the end required.’’
Did this apply to the recent rescue of the ship captain from Somalia pirates?
Assassinations
What does Executive Order No. 12,333 ban?
What is the traditional definition of an assassination?
Why is it a problem as public policy?
Is it defined in war time against combatants?
When can you kill civilians as well?
What are examples of the US targeting civilian populations directly, rather than as collateral damage to military attacks?
When are Assassinations OK?
Is there a provision of the United Nations Charter that might shelter assassinations?
Would Executive Order 12,333 ban killing al Qaeda members?
How do you get around Executive Order 12,333?
Can this be done secretly?
Chapter 11 - Collective Self-Defense
Executing the UN Charter
When was the United Nations Participation Act passed?
What does the United Nations Participation Act direct the president to do?
Statutory Rules
What is the limitation on presidential action under Article 43?
What is the President allowed to do under Article 42 without consulting with Congress?
Chapter 12 - Preemptive War
Preemptive War
What is the theory of preemptive war?
Why was the Iraq war a preemptive war?
Chapter 13 - Humanitarian and Peace/Stability Operations
Constitutional Limits
Does the constitution allow the president to send humanitarian aid/Peace keeping aid without authorization from Congress?
Under the constitution, do you think the president has more authority to take military action or humanitarian action?
Somalia
What crisis brought the UN into Somalia in 1992?
What did UN Resolution 794 provide for Somalia?
What was the initial US military involvement?
Why did we go into Mogadishu?
What did the White House Counsel's office say was the core of the president's power to do this?
Foreign Control of US Troops
What potential constitutional problem is posed by putting US troops under foreign control?
Can Congress constitutionally prevent the president from putting troops under foreign control, if it is otherwise allowed?
Does it matter whether the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan are characterized as humanitarian, rather than military?
Chapter 14 - Intelligence Operations
Keeping Secrets
Did the founders anticipate that there would be government secrets?
What about the constitutional convention itself?
What did they think of legislative history?
Was Congress allowed to keep its proceedings secret?
What was the practice for executive branch agencies until FOIA?
What are the INTs?
human intelligence or espionage (HUMINT)
imagery intelligence (IMINT)
signals intelligence (SIGINT) and
measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT)
 Except for open-source intelligence (OSINT), each of the INTs has a self-contained process, from collection to delivery.
Origin of the CIA
Why is the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 seen as ratifying clandestine intelligence gathering?
Protecting Civil Liberties
What is the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board?
Who does it depend on for its powers?
Why is this a problem?
Chapter 15 - Covert Action
What does the Neutrality Act of 1794 prohibit?
What did Jefferson say about the Neutrality Act?
What is the Logan Act?
Are there 1st amendment issues?
Has the law been enforced?
Implementing the National Security Act of 1947
Why is it hard to look back to 1947 and make determinations about covert action as it is currently understood?
Why might the formal congressional record not be an accurate picture of whether congress intended for the CIA to carry out cover actions?
What is the Fifth Function?
‘‘Plausible Deniability’’
What is plausible denial and how does presidential approval undermine it?
How did Congress try to limit plausible deniability in 1974?
What is the Materiality Test in cases where the defense is seeking classified information?
What does the judge have to evaluate to determine if the information is essential to the defense?
The Church Committee 1976
What was the Church Committee most concerned with?
What principles did it establish for covert activities?
What procedural limits did it recommend?
Arms Export Control Act
What does the AECA require before foreign arms sales?
What did Secretary of State Schultz determine in 1984 that complicates the use of the Arms Export Control Act and other legal authorities to justify sales of arms in the Iran Contra scandal?
What classification did the president use to get out from under the Arms Export Control Act?
But may the President avoid the AECA simply by labeling an arms transfer as a covert action?
Boland Amendments
What was the purpose of the Boland Amendments?
What were the Congressional conflicts over the Amendments?
Boland II
What did Boland II provide?
What prompted this amendment?
What did Congress think the amendment meant?
Are there constitutional limits on acts such as the Boland Amendment?
Nuremberg Defense (from the Iran Contra materials)
Why is it called the Nuremberg defense?
What is the advantage of not protecting the individuals who carry out the policy?
What did the appeals court say about North's requested instruction that authorization by his superiors was a complete defense?
When did the appeals court say this might be a defense?
Chapter 16 - Other Legal Problems in the Intelligence Field
Operation CHAOS
What was Operation CHAOS objective?
What means did it use?
Was Operation CHAOS a valid CIA activity in the US?
COINTELPRO
Who did COINTELPRO operations target?
Was this just intelligence gathering?
What sort of covert actions were carried out?
What were the long term goals of the operation against Black Nationalists?
Why was the FBI worried about the New Left?
The FBI Enabling Act
Is there an FBI enabling act?
Where does the FBI get its authority?
The NSA
What is the NSA and what intelligence does it process?
Does the NSA act on the intelligence it gathers?
The Role of the Military
How is using the military for covert actions different from using the CIA?
Chapter 17 - Defining Terrorism
What are We Fighting?
Is terrorism the problem, or is terrorism just a technique, like the blitzkrieg - what does this mean?
Terrorists v. Freedom Fighters?
How does the frame of reference determine whether an act is terrorism or freedom fighting?
Is killing civilians the key?
Does it have to be intentionally killing civilians?
Do we give violent antiabortion groups the same attention as Islamic groups?
How does the characterize of the acts change in history when the terrorists win the conflict and become the legitimate government?
Why does the Legal Definition of Terrorism Matter?
Must there be One Definition for terrorism?
What is the legal significance of multiple definitions of terrorism?
Does this pose constitutional problems for vagueness?
Is terrorism banned by jus cogens?
Are there acts that do violate jus cogens that could also be terrorism?
Were the Nazi death camps terrorism?
Chapter 18 - The Fourth Amendment and National Security
Recharacterizing Crime as Terrorism
How does the new rhetoric at Homeland Security merge terrorism and crime?
What are the legal implications of calling gangs domestic terrorists?
How does it change law enforcement?
What about other agencies?
What is the fundamental distinction between criminal investigation and anti-terrorism investigations?
What is the principle distinction between criminal law and administrative law, which supports the different warrant requirements for public health and criminal searches?
Where does terrorism fit in this?
Why is probable cause more difficult for terrorism than for criminal investigations?
What constitutional issues are implicated in terrorism but not usually in criminal law?
How is the informational database for assessing the success of traditional law enforcement different from that for assessing the effectiveness of anti-terrorist activities?
What is the outlier problem for terrorism?
What is the credibility problem with terrorism stats?
Issues with Warrants
What if they are not prosecuting you - how do you contest a search?
Why does the government not want to ask a judge to approve a warrant in terrorism cases?
Title III (18U.S.C. §2518(1)(b)-(d) (2000))
What are the specific requirements of Title III for electronic communications?
What other electronic communications  are protected by Title III?
Are these greater than the constitutional requirements for a warrant?
Why are these problematic for national security surveillance?
Could this be cured by requiring only the constitutional minimum?
The Primary Purpose Doctrine in Truong
What was evidence that the nature of the search changed in Truong?
What does the government need to do at this point if it wants to continue the search?
What if the national security search shows up unrelated crimes by persons not involved in national security activities?
Chapter 19 - Congressional Authority for National Security Surveillance
Access to Bank Records
Do you have an Expectation of Privacy?
Why?
FISA
What abuses in the Church Report drove the passage of FISA?
What is a United States person?
What is the definition of international terrorism?
What must the government show to get a FISA warrant?
What must the judge find that there is probable cause to support?
What additional finding must the judge make if the target is a US person?
What does this implicitly tell you about the review standard for non-US persons?
How does this differ from the requirements for a criminal law warrant?
Standard for Reviewing the FISA Judge
How does the legislative history indicate that the appeals court should review the findings of the FISA judge?
Does this look like classic agency deference, rather than the review of a criminal law warrant?
What did the Senate report say about the overlap between foreign intelligence and criminal investigations?
The Primary Purpose Doctrine
What are terrorists usually prosecuted for?
What is the real problem that the primary purpose doctrine addresses?
When may the judge disclose supporting documents for the FISA warrant to the defense?
What is the standard for disclosing documents to the defense in the ordinary criminal proceedings?
FISA
What types of electronic surveillance does FISA contemplate?
Does FISA allow video surveillance?
How was the pen register language modified after 9/11 to include email?
How might an automatic out of office message get you in trouble under this law?
The Lone Wolf Provision
What is the "lone wolf provision" - 50 U.S.C. §1801(b)(1)(C)?
What does the "lone wolf provision" do to the notion of an agency of a foreign power?
The FISA Court
How is the FISA court selected?
What is the FISA appeals court?
Does the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction over FISA appeals?
Why was FISA amended to require the Attorney General personally to review and to justify in writing any decision not to approve an application for a FISA order?
What is the problem with doing quality control on FISA requests?
FISA Expansion
How was the basis for probable cause under FISA expanded in 2000?
How does this broaden FISA?
Why should this make you worry more about mistakes by NSA in reading your email?
What does it mean for Jerry Adams?
What is the emergency exception for FISA?
Minimization Procedures
What are the purpose of minimization procedures?
What do the minimization procedures allow as regard ordinary crimes?
The Patriot Act and the Primary Purpose Doctrine
How did the Patriot Act modify the purpose of FISA surveillance?
How does this implicitly do away with the primary purpose test?
What if the purpose is solely criminal investigation?
Will any defendant ever prove this?  Why not?
Who has the responsibility for reviewing the government purpose?
Alternatives to FISA
Are there alternative criminal laws that could be used against terrorists?
What would the feds say about the limitations of using traditional criminal law warrants?
NSA screening of International Phone Calls
What are the impediments to getting FISA warrants for this screening?
Did FISA provide for area warrants?
Did FISA contemplate individual warrants for given individuals?
Could the government just put everyone on notice that foreign calls may be screened and eliminate the expectation of privacy?
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
Does Section 702 create an area warrant for interception of communications originating outside the US?
Why does the Act have provisions allowing the communications companies to contest these warrants in court?
Why is there a provision granting the communications companies immunity from complying with these orders?
Chapter 20 - Third-Party Records and Data Mining
Does the Public's Expectation of Privacy Match the Court's?
If your employer can read it, can the government?
Why are transactions so valuable for intelligence?
The Expectation of Privacy in Email
Why are analogies between ISPs and the post office misguided?
Why is there no expectation of privacy in bank records?
Transactions in general?
How did the court see email as different from bank records?
What about email in the hands of a recipient?
The Nature of the Expectation
How much of this expectation of privacy is due to statutes?
What if those changed?
What if the court said they did not apply for national security investigations?
Do you have an expectation of privacy if there are any exceptions?
The Contract with the ISP
Why does the contract with the ISP matter?
What about email on the employer's computer?
What about email on the University system?
Does it matter whether the ISP really looks at the email, or only has the right to?
What about gmail - how is Google like the NSA when it comes to email?
National Security Letters
What is a a National Security Letter?
Are these issued by a judge?
Why have a secrecy provision?
Does the statute forbid judicial review?
How does the agency intimidate recipients to avoid review?
Is Intimidation a Legal Issue?
What are the 1st Amendment issues with getting email addresses?
How is this different from access to back records and other transaction records?
What about header information, such as subject?
What is the theory of expectation of privacy through obscurity?
Is this still a useful theory, or have we given up expectations of privacy based on administrative costs?
Library records
Why is access to library check out records so controversial?
How about video store rentals?
Netflix?
Online porn?
Data Mining
What is data mining?
Why is it so important commercially?
What is the business model for Gmail?
What about companies that buy your credit card and grocery store data?
Are the restrictions on private data mining?
Why does this make limits on governmental data mining ineffective?
Chapter 21 - Screening for Security
Airport Searches
What is the adlaw rationale for passenger searches from the Davis case?
How could a person opt out the search?
How did this make it a consent issue?
Is the consent now entering the airport?
Could you say in the alternative that an airline passenger has a reduced expectation of privacy?
What is the Balancing Test from the Subway Search case?
(1) the weight and immediacy of the government interest
(2) “the nature of the privacy interest allegedly compromised by” the search; 
(3) “the character of the intrusion imposed” by the search; and 
(4) the efficacy of the search in advancing the government interest.
Privacy Expectations
What is the role of reduced expectation of privacy in regulated industry cases?
Government Building Entry
What about searches of persons entering government buildings?
Are these allowed?
How intrusive can they be?
What about the new low power scattering x-ray that can see through your clothes?
What does the Real ID Act require?
National ID Cards - Your Papers Please
What are the issues with national ID cards?
What is the current law about showing an ID if you are stopped by the police?
Profiling
What is profiling?
What if a racial or ethnic group is associated with higher levels of crime in an area - should profiling data be based on their prevalence in the population or their prevalence in prison?
What if there is specific risk information for a given time and place?
Did we detain non-citizen Muslin men after 9/11?
Was this an appropriate risk-based detention?
The Problems with Profiling
Why are we worried about racial profiling?
Religious profiling?
What were the characteristics of all of the al Qaeda terrorists in 9/11?
What does randomly searching Granny at the airport do for the public's perception of the effectiveness of TSA random screening?
Illegal Aliens
Can you profile based on folks being illegal aliens?
Do illegal aliens have any claims for profiling or other directed law enforcement, since they are guilty of breaking immigration laws?
Can you attack cases against illegal aliens based on discrimination?
When can you screen at a checkpoint based on race?
Behavioral Profiling
What is behavioral profiling?
How can it be a mask for racial or ethnic profiling?
The Border
What is the constitutional basis for different rules at the border?
What is the practical reason?
What does the court tell us about the reasonable expectations of any person, including US citizens, returning to the US?
What about your computer?
How does this trump the right of association?
What is the balancing test?
Why was this considered a minor intrusion?
Chapter 22: Organization and Coordination of Counterterrorism Investigations
What can the CIA do in the US?
The FBI Guidelines
What is the wall and what has happened to it?
What is the Seamless Web?
What is the traditional role of the FBI?
How does becoming an intelligence agency change this role?
Can the agency do both without significant additional resources?
What will suffer?
What is the Don't Do Evil provision?
Can it be waived?
What can trigger an investigation?
What are the Limits on Investigations?
What about Information about Activities not Related to the Primary Investigation?
What is a Prextext Interview?
What legal issues do these pose?
What if you client lies?
Can this be a form of entrapment?
Chapter 23 - Surveillance Abroad
The Prize Cases
Did the captain's liability depend on an extra territorial application of the 4th Amendment?
Was the statute authorizing the seizures seen as an extension of the captain's powers or a limitation?
What would a modern president say about such a limitation?
What does Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950) tell us about the rights of foreign nationals outside the US?
What does Reid v. Covert, 354 US 1 (1957) tells us about the rights of American citizens abroad?
What does In re Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa, 552 F.3d 157 (Cir2 2008) tell us about the 4th Amendment rights of a US citizen abroad?
The court bifurcates the 4th Amendment analysis into the reasonableness clause and the warrant clause
What does this mean?
What does it mean that the warrant is to protect separation of powers?
Why is this diminished for foreign searches?
Would a US warrant have any legal effect in Africa?
What factors did the court use to determine that a warrant was not necessary?
Reliance on Foreign Process
What if the US has signed an agreement with the foreign government to use its legal process, then fails to?
Should this be the basis for excluding the evidence if it would otherwise be admissible?
Does the Silver Platter doctrine apply to foreign police or governments?
What is the Shocks-the-Conscience Exception to the Silver Platter Doctrine?
Chapter 24 - Civil Detention Of Terrorist Suspects
Citizens v. Non-Citizens
How are the legal rights of non-citizens different from citizens?
How do the legal rights of non-citizens change when their visa expires or they otherwise violate the terms of their stay in the US?
Can non-citizens be deported for low level crimes?
How was this used in the PENTTBOM investigations?
Absconder Apprehension Initiative
Who did the ‘‘Absconder Apprehension Initiative’’ target?
Why isn't this unconstitutional as profiling by national origin?
Was the FBI careful to distinguish between actual terrorist subjects and persons only incidentally picked up as part of the ‘‘Absconder Apprehension Initiative’’ and other programs?
What standard of proof did the FBI want in detention cases?
Emergency Detention Act
What did the Emergency Detention Act. of 1950 authorize? 
What did the justice department do to implement the act?
Material Witnesses
Who can be held as a material witness?
What is the key to the jail door for a material witness?
How did the government abuse this in the PENTTBOM investigations?
Bond for Immigration Detentions
What is the standard for denying bond for immigration cases?
Consular Rights
What right does the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations give a foreign arrestee?
Since this is a reciprocal agreement, why should the US care about whether foreign countries abide by it?
Where does Matthews v. Eldridge Fit Into the analysis in the Detainee cases?
Chapter 25 - Suspending the Great Writ
Habeas Corpus
What does the Latin "habeas corpus" mean?
Where did the right of habeas corpus originate?
Is it provided for in the US constitution?
Does this also make it available for state arrests and detentions?
The Habeas Corpus Petition
What are the basic requirements for habeas corpus?
Does the constitution provide that the writ can be suspended?
Does it clearly specify who can suspend it?
Why was suspending habeas corpus such an issue in the Civil War?
What is the Real Issue with suspending the Writ?
Does abolishing the writ do away with the 5th amendment?
What did Lincoln accomplish by abolishing the writ?
Why was the Bush administration so opposed to allowing the writ at Guantanamo?
When Can the Writ be Suspended?
If the writ can only be suspended when the courts are not open, what does this imply about the society at that time?
What can congress do in its authorization to suspend the writ?
Why is this called martial law?
Is suspending the writ the real issue, or is it really suspending the constitution?
Why was this an issue in Katrina?
Limiting the Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts to hear Habeas Corpus Petitions
Is Habeas Corpus part of the original jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court?
If not, then were does the court get the jurisdiction?
What is your argument that the constitutional provision for the writ implies that the court must be able to review it?
Has the United States Supreme Court adopted this argument?
The Legal Status of Guantanamo
Why were the detainees put in Guantanamo as opposed to a federal prison in the US?
What were the insular cases?
What do they tell us that might mitigate Eisentrager?
How did we get Guantanamo?
How long have we held it?
Any evidence we are ever going to let it go?
How does this make the case more like an insular case than like Eisentrager?
What rights do the residents of an insular case territory get?
Has Congress imposed any rights in Guantanamo?
What are you left with?
Might habeas corpus apply even when other rights are not available?
What was the status of the persons in Eisentrager?
How do the Guantanamo detainees differ?
The Status of the Detainees
Did the Eisentrager detainees contest their statues as enemy aliens?
What process had found them to be enemy aliens?
Do these Guantanamo detainees accept that they are enemy combatants?
Has there been comparable process to Eisentrager? 
Is Guantanamo Like the Eisentrager Prison in Occupied Germany?
Would Complying with Habeas Corpus Requirements be Impractical in Guantanamo?
Can Congress Remove the Court's Jurisdiction over Habeas Corpus?
What would be the effect of allowing Congress to remove jurisdiction for habeas corpus?
What does the administration say is a substitute for habeas corpus?
What about separation of powers?
Did Congress Intend to Create an Alternative to Habeas Corpus?
Why does is habeas corpus more important when persons are detained by executive orders?
Boumediene v. Bush United States, 579 F. Supp. 2d 191 (DDC 2008)
What is an Enemy Combatant?
Chapter 26 - Military Detention
What does the Alien Enemy Act 50 U.S.C. §21 (2000) provide?
Who does it apply to?
What does this tell us about the long term rights of non-citizens?
Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
Why are Military Tribunals Being Used?
What Makes an Offense Against the Law Of War?
What is the difference between Lawful and Unlawful Combatants?
Is Quirin Useful Precedent in a War on Terror?
Think about our discussions about the problems of deciding when an imperfect war ends and who is a combatant. 
What problems does this pose in figuring out what Quirin means in the war on terror?
Why was it easy to decide they were enemy combatants in Quirin?
What is AUMGF?
Who is it directed at?
Are there specific nations named?
Is this a declaration of war?
Is it a statute?
How was it used to justify detention in the detainee cases?
Did it allow detention of US citizens as well foreign nationals?
Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763 (1950)
Why weren't defendant's treated as prisoners of war?