Espionage and Intelligence | Granting Intelligence Agencies Increased Powers to Fight Terrorism Does Not Threaten Civil Liberties

About the author: Viet D. Dinh is assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice. Before government service, Dinh was a professor and the deputy director of Asian Law and Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center.

The core meaning of . . . [the] concept [of ordered liberty] is profoundly relevant to our current war against terror. Some have suggested that the actions we have taken to prosecute that war are a threat to liberty; others defend those actions as vital to the preservation of our liberty. I seek today to mediate these opposing viewpoints by...

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