Index

A

Abdel-Rahman, Omar, 202
Abrams v. United States, 87–89
Abu Ghraib, 247, 266, 267, 268, 279 
      Obama administration and, 315
Ackerman, Bruce, 312
“actual controversy” rule, 342
Adams, John, xxv, 26
      in election of 1796, 31
Addington, David, 218, 275
      and surveillance
         briefing, 228–229
adversarial system, in judicial process, 340–341
advisory opinions, 342
Afghan Services Bureau, 202
Afghanistan, 202 
      Bagram Theater

         Internment Facility, 262, 268, 315
      Bush (G.W.) administration and, 213
      Soviet Army in, 389n6
African Union Mission
   (AMISOM), 302
aggression, 352n21
Ahmed, Sheikh Sharif 
   Sheikh, 298
Ajaj, Ahmed, 204
Albertson v. Subversive
   Activities Control Board, 180
Albright, Madeleine, 237, 252
Alien Act of 1918, deportations under, 85–86
Alien and Sedition Act of
   1940, 101–105
Alien and Sedition Acts
   (1798), 26, 30–40
      state resolutions on, 38
Alien Enemies Act, 33

Alien Friends Act, 33, 34
Alien Registration Act, 102
Alliance for the
   Restoration of Peace and 
   Counterterrorism, 299
American Academy of
   Religion v. Chertoff, 234, 236
American Academy of
   Religion v. Napolitano, 236
American Civil Liberties
   Union (ACLU), 92, 95, 327, 328, 401n233
American Political Trials
   (Belknap), 155
American Protective
   League, 80–81
American Star Chamber
   Court, 274–279
Amnesty International, 300, 318
anarchists, 100
anarcho-capitalist
   approach to government, 7n

Anglo-American peace
   treaty (1794),
31
Anglo-American
   Petroleum Agreement, 201
anti-war-movement
   supporters, 186–187
Aquinas, Thomas, 5 
      Summa Theologica, 8, 13
Arab Spring, 305, 311
Army Field Manual, 314
Arrested Development, 220n
Articles of Confederation, weaknesses, 15–16
Ashcroft, John, 219, 229–230, 275
      hospitalization, 230
assassination
      ban on, 322
      by drones, 305–306
Assassination Archives
   and Research Center, 197n
Atlantic, 228n
al-Aulaqi, Abdulrahman, 324, 325
al-Aulaqi, Anwar, 305, 324–325
al-Aulaqi, Nasser, 328
al-Aulaqi v. Obama, 328
Authorization for Use of
   Military Force (AUMF), 213, 283–284, 318
      Afghan theatre under, 213–216
Ayres, David, 230

B

Bagram Theater
   Internment Facility
   (Afghanistan), 262, 268, 315

Baldwin, Roger, 92
Baldwin v. New York, 329
Barr, Robert, 275
Barry, John, 313
Bates, Edward, 45
Bates, John, 328
Bauer, Robert, 312
Belknap, Michael,
   American Political
   Trials, 155
Benghazi, 314
Berger, Sandy, 206
Biddle, Frank, 108, 126
      Perilous Times, 105
bin Fareed, Sheikh Saleh, 304–305
bin Laden, Osama, 202–203
      drones and, 322
      escape to Pakistan, 215
      on U.S. military in
         Middle East, 203n 
      and World Trade
         Center bombing, 211
Black, Hugo, 168, 194
      dissent in Dennis, 163–164
      Youngstown Sheet case
         by, 169–170
Black Hawk Down
   incident, 297
Black Panthers, FBI
   investigation, 189
Blackwater drone
   contractors, 307
Blair, Tony, 311
Blix, Hans, 217
Blumrosen, Alfred, 18
Blumrosen, Steven, 18
Bonaparte, Charles, 100
Borch, Fred L., 277, 279
Boumediene v. Bush, 292–294

Bourne, Randolph, 9–11, 27–28, 32–33, 57, 212, 224
      “The State,” 63
Bradbury, Steven, 268 
      OLC memo, 270–271
Branam, Tara, 171
Brandeis, Louis, 94, 95, 162, 193
      on free speech, 88
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 72, 92, 95, 184–185
Bravin, Jess, 289–290
      The Terror Courts, 263, 265, 274n
Bridgeport case (NWLB), 68
Britain, seizure of
   American sea vessels, 31
Brok, Elmar, 343
Browder, Earl, 144
Brown, Clarence, 149
“Brown Scare,” 96
      FBI and, 100–101
Brownback, Peter, 286
Bryan, William Jennings, 75
Building & Construction
   Trades Department v.
   Allbaugh, 172
Burdick, Usher L., 149
Bureau of Investigation, 100
Burger, Ernest P., 125, 127
Burger, Warren Earl, 194
Burleson, Albert, control
   of disloyal mail, 84–85
Burnside, Ambrose, 47, 244
Bush, George W., xxvi, 172, 202, 226
      authority to conduct
         War on Terror, 213
      authorization of PSP, 337
      claim of power
         to interpret
         Constitution in
         secret, 253
      and Japanese
         compensation, 139
      reelection, 247
      signing statement for
         Detainee Treatment
         Act of 2005, 269
      and torture program, 271
Bush (G.W.)
   administration, 244
      authorized military
         force against
         terrorism, 204
      on counterterrorism, 208–209
      global war on terror
         after 9/11, 211–250
      Office of Legal
         Counsel, 228, 252–253
      personal freedoms
         after 9/11, xxix 
      political prosecutions, 231–236
      rendition and torture
         program, 258
      surveillance programs, 218–219
      and U.S. in Somalia, 297–301
Butterfield, Alexander, 187
Bybee, Jay S., 228, 254, 255, 256
      appointment to Court
         of Appeals, 267
      “Interrogation of al 
         Qaeda Operative,” 257

Byrne, Matthew, 194

C

Cadwalader, General, 44
Calder v. Bull, 128
Cambodia, bombing, 187
Camp “Nasty-A--Military
   Area” (NAMA), 261
Camp X-Ray, 277–278
capital federal offenses, acceptable process of
   law, 329
Card, Andrew H. Jr., 230
Carter, Jimmy
      ban on assassinations, 322
      and classified
         information, 244
      Executive Order 12036, 322n
Case or Controversy
   Clause, 342
CBS 60 Minutes, 267
Celler, Emanuel, 143, 148–149
censorship, 114
      of mail, in WW I, 84–85
      opposition to, 37
Center for Constitutional
   Rights (CCR), 327
Central Intelligence
   Agency (CIA), 144
      assassination plans for 
         al-Aulaqi, 325
      and due process under 
         Obama, 326–327 
      ISI crack-down on
         agents in Pakistan, 309
      network of secret
         “black sites,” 258
      in Pakistan, 306

centralized economic
   planning, during WW
   II, 120
Chamber of Commerce v.
   Reich, 172
charges for detainees, in
   Guantanamo, 278
Chase, Salmon P., 50, 52
Chase, Samuel, 128
Cheney, Dick, 208, 218, 226, 246
      plans for global
         kidnapping, 252–253
      and surveillance
         briefing, 228–229
      and torture program, 216–217, 257–267
Christian pacifism, 83
Church, Benjamin, 23–24
Church, Frank F., 197
Church Committee, 197–199
Citizens’ Commission to
   Investigate the FBI, 189
citizens, response to war
   destruction, 10
citizenship of traitor, Supreme Court on, 129
civil liberties. See also
   specific freedoms
      battle to retain, 345
      of detainees, 274 
      FISA Court and, 342
      habeas corpus and, 42–47
      vs. national security, 49
      rollback after 9/11, 212
      war and, 11
Civil Liberties Act of 1988, 139

Civil War
      habeas corpus in,
42–47
      martial law during, 47
civilians, court-martial, 173–175
Clapper v. Amnesty
   International, 250
Clark, Tom C., 145, 152
Clarke, John H., 88
Clarke, Richard, 208, 252
classical liberalism, 5n
vs. neoconservatives, 271
clear and present danger, 156
      Hand on, 158
      Holmes on, 87
      Medina and, 157
Clement, Paul, 270, 288
Clinton, Bill, 20n, 172
      Presidential Decision
         Directive 39, 251–252
Clinton, Hillary, 236, 310, 311
Clinton administration
      and al Qaeda in
         Afghanistan, 205–208
      information
         declassification
         procedures, 242–243
      military action against
         bin Laden, 206–207
      and rise of
         international
         terrorism, 204
      war on terror, 203–208
COINTELPRO (Counter
   Intelligence Program), 188
Cold War, 143–199
      secrecy in, 199
Cole (USS), bombing, 208

Collamer, Jacob, 46
Combatant Status Review
   Tribunals (CSRT), 268, 285–286
Comey, James B., Jr., 228–230
command responsibility
   doctrine, 278–279
commander in chief, President’s authority for
   military commissions, 275
Committee of
   Correspondence
   (Continental Congress), 25, 26
Committee of Secret
   Correspondence
   (Continental Congress), 26
Committee on Public
   Information, 66, 73, 74–79
Committee on Spies
   (Continental Congress), 25, 26
communications. See also
   telecommunications
   companies
      with enemy, criminalization of, 244
      governmental
         interference with
         private, 248
Communism, 96–101
      atmosphere opposing, 145
Communist Party of U.S.
   (CPUSA), 95, 144
      collapse, 164–165
      Court of Appeals on, 158
      Dies Committee and, 99
      FBI persecution of
         members, 164
      indictment against, 152
      membership and
         federal employment, 181
      Supreme Court on, 161
Congress. See U.S.
   Congress
congressional elections in
   1918, Wilson request for
   vote of confidence, 73
conscientious objection, pamphlet advocating, 83
conspiracy
      as charge against al 
         Qaeda members, 278
      to create totalitarian
         dictatorship charge, 147
constitutionality, presumption of, 113n
containment, 145
      Truman and, 178
Continental Congress, 23–26
      committees as
         congressional CIA, 25
contract, right to make, 66, 69–70
Coolidge, Calvin, release
   of political prisoners, 92
copper shortages, in WW
   II, 115
Couch, Stuart, 277, 279
Council of National
   Defense, Advisory
   Commission, 116–117
counterterrorism 
      bureaucratic problems
         with, 212

      Bush (G.W.) administration and, 208–209
Court of Appeals, Second
   Circuit, 157–165, 205
court packing, by FDR, 112
courts of law, truth-seeking function of, 341
Cramer, Anthony, 126, 127
Cramer, Myron C., 126
Creel, George, 74, 76
Cronkite, Walter, 193
cross-examination, in
   Great Communist Trial, 156
cruel and unusual
   punishment, 254
curfew, for Japanese
   Americans, 135
“czar” principle, 120

D

Daliberti v. Republic of
   Iraq,
257
al-Darbi, Ahmed, 264
Dasch, George J., 125, 126, 127
Davis, David, 50
Davis, Morris, 291, 316
Davis, Raymond, 307–309
Day of Deceit (Stinnett), 118, 243–244
death penalty, for
   communicating with
   enemy in Revolution, 24
Debs, Eugene V., 83–84, 92
Debs v. United States, 87
Declaration of
   Independence, Jefferson
   and, xxiv
declaration of war
      absence in Libyan-U.S.
         conflict, 312
      for World War I, 65
      for World War II, 113
Defense Department, intelligence gathering on
   Iraq WMDs, 259
Defense Production Act of
   1950, 169
Defense Secrets Act of
   1911, 58–59
defensive measures, as
   presidential powers, 20
Democratic National
   Headquarters, break-in, 194–195
Dennis v. United States, 160–164
      Yates decision and, 166
Department of Homeland
   Security, 235
Department of Justice, secret white paper on
   terrorist classification
   process, 326, 327–328
Departmental
   Reorganization Act, 65–66
Depression era
      freedom of speech in, 94–110
      self-ownership after, 110–113
      unemployment, 112
Detainee Treatment Act
   of 2005, 268–271, 287, 288
detainees treatment, Obama executive orders
   on, 316
Detention Review Board, 148
Deus vult (“God wills it”), 225n
Dewey, John, 92
Dewey, Thomas E., 153
DeWitt, John L., 131, 132
      and Japanese
         internment, 133
Dickstein, Samuel, 97–98
Dies, Martin, 98
diplomatic immunity, Davis and, 309
Directory (French
   government), 31–32
Dirty Wars (Scahill), 260, 301
“disaffection” provisions, 60–61
dissenting opinion, freedom to express, 28
District Court
   jurisdiction, and
   military custody, 283
Doe v. Ashcroft, 238–239
Doe v. Gonzales, 238–239
domestic eavedropping, FBI and, 218
domestic spies, 188–190
      Bush (G.W.)
         administration and, 217
      drones for, 332
      FBI and, 99–101
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 251
draft. See military draft in
   WW I
draft card burning, 183
Drake, Thomas, 334
drone wars, 322–333
drones
      assassinations by U.S., 303
      domestic, and privacy, 331–333
drumhead courts, 47
due process, 80, 111, 167, 279, 319
      and al-Aulaqi case, 329–331
      Alien Enemies Act
         and, 34
      and CIA under 
         Obama, 326–327
      vs. rapid convictions, in military
         commissions, 276
      Washington and, 30
Duncan v. Kahanamoku, 130, 274
Duncan v. Louisiana, 273

E

Eastern Europe, Soviet
   Union and, 144
Eastman, Crystal, 92
economic rights, 65–71
      Supreme Court on
         protection for, 66
Egypt, secret police, 252
Eicher, Edward C., 108
Eisenhower, Dwight
      and classified
         information, 244
      on U.S. in Middle East, 201–202
Electronic Privacy
   Information Center, 221
Ellsberg, Daniel, 191, 193, 194
Embassy Bombings case, 207–208
embezzlement, conviction
   by military tribunal for, 130
Endo, Ex parte, 138–139
enemy combatants,

   executive authority to
   detain, 283
equal protection under
   the law, 135
Espionage Act of 1917, 59–62, 79, 138, 193, 335–336
      amendments, 62–63
      criminal prosecutions
         under, 82–84
      non-mailability 
         provision, 84–85 
      Obama and, 334–338
      Supreme Court
         decision on, 87–88
espionage, statutes, 58
Ethiopia, invasion of
   Somalia by, 299
evidence
      admissibility when
         obtained by torture, 278
      in criminal courts, 286
executive order
      on bin Laden and al 
         Qaeda’s U.S. assets, 207
      FDR, Office for
         Emergency
         Management
         creation, 117
      Lincoln’s suspension of
         habeas corpus, 44
      Supreme Court and, 172
      Wilson, Committee on
         Public Information
         creation, 73
Executive Order 8381
   (FDR), 244
Executive Order 9066
   (FDR), 131–137, 138

Executive Order 9102
   (FDR), 133
Executive Order 9301
   (FDR), 120
Executive Order 9835
   (Truman), 145
Executive Order 10340
   (Truman), 168
Executive Order 12036
   (Carter), 322n
Executive Order 12333
   (Bush), 218, 322
Executive Order 12958
   (Clinton), 242, 244
Executive Order 13292
   (Bush), 244, 245, 247
Executive Order 13491
   (Obama), 314, 316
Executive Order 13492
   (Obama), 316
Executive Order 13493
   (Obama), 316
executive state secrets, 244
extraordinary rendition, 251–252

F

FAA Modernization and
   Reform Act of 2012, 331
Faheem, Muhammed, 307
fascism, 96
fear, restricting freedom, xviii
Federal Bureau of
   Investigation (FBI), 188
      director term limits, 188n 
      and domestic spying, 99–101, 218
      persecution of
         Communist Party
         members, 164

federal courts, evidence
   requirements,
155
federal government
      as civilian system, 54
      and natural rights, xxvi 
      nullification and, 40
      power of, 38
Federal Rules of Evidence
      403, on probative vs. 
         prejudicial value of
         evidence, 276 
      evidentiary 
         requirements vs. 
         military commission
         rules, 128–130
federalism, 38
Federalist Papers, on wars, 17–18
Federalists, and English-French tensions, 33
Feinstein-Lee amendment, xix–xx
Ferguson, Homer S., 150
fifth column, 101, 131n
FISA. See Foreign
   Intelligence
   Surveillance Act of 1978
   (FISA)
FISA Amendments Act of
   2008, 248, 249–250, 334
Fish, Hamilton III, 96–97
Fish Committee, 96–97
Foley Square Trial, 152
Ford, Gerald
      ban on assassinations, 322
      Executive Order 11905, 322n
Ford administration, 197
Foreign Affairs Reform
   and Restructuring Act, 252

foreign intelligence
   services, CIA use of, 258
Foreign Intelligence
   Surveillance Act of
   1978 (FISA), 197–199, 241–242
      court decisions, 338–343
      and PATRIOT Act, 220
Foreign Intelligence
   Surveillance Court, 198, 248
Founding Fathers
      as traitors, 352n15 
      on treason, 27–28
      vision for intelligence
         network, 26
442nd Regimental
   Combat Team, 136–137
France
      1778 alliance with, 26
      concessions required
         from American
         delegation, 32
      revolution, 30
      surrender to Germany, impact in U.S., 101–110
France, Joseph I., 64
Frankfurter, Felix, 91, 287
Franklin, Benjamin, 15
      as spy, 25–26
freedom, 346
      presidential duty to
         preserve, 203
      vs. security, 3, 11–13
      vs. treaties, 173–175
freedom of association, 179
Freedom of Information
   Act, 243, 327, 339
freedom of movement, 12
freedom of self-defense, 12

freedom of speech, xxx, 12, 35–36, 63, 184
      and clear and present
         danger, 158
      in Depression era, 94–110
      and dissenting
         opinions, 28
      repression in Civil
         War, 47
      suppression by Nixon
         administration, 187
freedom of the press, 192
Freeh, Louis, 206
Freeman’s Journal and
   Catholic Register, 84, 103
Frohwerk v. United States, 87

G

Garfield, James, 49
Gates, Robert, 248
Gelles, Michael, 263
General Order No. 38, 244
Geneva Conventions, 270, 277, 288
      Common Article
         3, and military
         commissions, 289
Gephardt, Richard A., 217
German American Bund, 98–99, 125
German culture, committee on public
   misinformation assault
   on, 77
German studies in U.S.
   schools, 92
Germany
      Berlin nightclub
         bombing, 202
      military, 115–116
      propaganda against,
76–77
      Wilson’s justification
         of war with, 79
Gihaz al-Mukhabarat 
   al-Amma, torture, 252
Gitlow v. New York, 94
Gitmo. See Guantanamo
   Bay (Gitmo) Detention
   Center
global terror, 1980 to 2001, 201–209
Global War on Terror
      Bush (G.W.) 
         administration and, 216
      privacy rights in, 217–226
Goldsmith, Jack, 228, 268
Goldstein, Robert, 82
Gonzales, Alberto R., 230, 254
goods, 12
Gore, Al, 206, 252
government 
      anarcho-capitalist
         approach to, 7n 
      Founding Fathers on
         role of, 4
      minimalist
         conceptualization, 8
Government Accounting
   Office, 244
government intelligence
   operations, committee
   to investigate, 197
government transparency, vs. secret government, 346
Great Communist Trial of
   1949, 152–157
      prosecution reliance
         on propaganda
         literature, 154–155
      witness identification
         of party members, 156
Great Sedition Trial of
   1944, 107–109, 154
Great Society, and war in
   Vietnam, 178
Greenwald, Glenn, 309, 336
Gregory, Thomas, 79, 80
Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo)
   Detention Center, 261
      detainees’ privilege of
         habeas corpus, 292
      indefinite use, 318
      military commissions
         at, 278 
      Obama pledge to close, 315–316 
      Qahtani (inmate), 263–264
      suicide by detainees, 288
Guardian, 309
Gulf of Tonkin 
   Resolution, 20, 180, 191
Gurfein, Murray, 192, 193

H

habeas corpus, 269
      in Civil War, 42–47
      Constitution
         protection of, 270
      for enemy combatants, legislative restriction, 287
      Lincoln suspension of, 43, 44, 45, 360n24
Hague Conventions, 127, 274
Haider, Faizan, 307

Hale, Nathan, 23
Hamdan, Salim, 288
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 270, 286, 288–290
      Congress involvement, 286–288
      and Military
         Commission Act, 292
Hamdan v. United States, 270
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 279–286
Hamdi, Yaser Esam, 283–284
Hamilton, Alexander, Federalist Papers, on
   wars, 17–18
Hand, Learned, 158–159, 160
Harakat al Shabab al 
   Mujahideen (al Shabab), 299, 301, 302
Harding, Warren, 92
Harris, Harry, Jr., 288
Harris, John, 208
Hastert, John D., 217
Haupt, Herbert H., 125
      citizenship, 128–129
Hawaiian Islands
      FDR advance
         knowledge of attack, 118–119 
      Pelley statement on, 106
      U.S. fleet in, 119
Hayden, Michael V., 218
Hayes, Rutherford B., 53
Haynes, William James, 277
      military commission
         order, 275–276
health of state, and war, 9–11, 57, 228

hearsay testimony, 147
      and military
         commission trials, 291
Hearst, Randolph, 246
heckler’s veto, xxxi
Heinck, Heinrich H., 125
Henry VII (King of
   England), xxiv
Hicks, David, 291–292, 316
Hirabayashi, Kiyoshi, 135
Hirabayashi v. United
   States, 134
Hiroshima, xxv
Hitler, Adolf, 97
Ho Chi Minh, 191
Hobbes, Thomas
      influence of, 4
      Leviathan, 5
Holder, Eric, 317, 319, 330–331
Holder v. Humanitarian
   Law Project, 338
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 88, 94, 95, 111, 162
      on clear and present
         danger, 87
Hoover, J. Edgar, 90, 100, 188
House Joint Resolution
   114, 217
House Rules Committee, Palmer before, 91
House Un-American
   Activities Committee
   (HUAC), 98
Human Rights Watch, 265, 315
Humanitarian Law
   Project et al. v. Ashcroft, 237, 338
Hussein, Saddam, 257

military action against, 217

I

ideas, manipulation of
   marketplace of, 245
Illaron, Susan, 338
immigrants, allegiance of, 33–34
individual autonomy, war
   and, 11
inflation, Truman
   approach to, 168
information, declassification
   procedures, 242–243
intelligence gathering, importance in American
   wars, 24–25
Intelligence Reform and
   Terrorism Prevention
   Act of 2004, 239, 338
Internal Security
   Emergency, President’s
   power to declare, 148
International Committee
   of the Red Cross, 260
Internet carriers 
      FISA Amendments Act
         of 2008 and, 250
      information from, 222
Iran, overthrow of elected
   prime minister, 201
Iranian hostage crisis, 202
Iraq theatre, 216–217
Iraq War Resolution, 217
ISI (Pakistani intelligence
   service), 307
Islamic Courts Union
   (ICU), 298–299
Islamic world, U.S.
   relationship with, 201
Israel, U.S. as ally, 201

J

Jackson, Andrew, 62
Jackson, Robert, xxx
   xxxi, 99, 105
      on presidential power
         categories, 170–171
Japan, FDR advisors on
   steps for provoking, 118–119
Japanese American
   Evacuation Claims Act, 139
Japanese Americans
   internment, xix, 123n, 131–137, 138
      apology attempt, 195
      losses from, 134
Jay, John, 31
Jefferson, Thomas, 26
      and Declaration of
         Independence, xxiv 
      in election of 1796, 31
      in election of 1800, 35
jihadists, ex-patriot, 324
Johnson, Andrew, 51
Johnson, Lyndon, 180
Vietnam conflict under, 177–185
Johnson (Lyndon)
   administration, troop
   deployment, 20
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 144
Joint Special Operations
   Command (JSOC), 12, 259
      deaths of detainees, 268
      secret interrogation
         operation, 261
      torture, 265
      in Yemen, 304, 305

Jones, Anthony R., 266n
Judicial Procedures
   Reform Bill of 1937, 112
judicial process, adversarial system in, 340–341
Judiciary Act of 1789, and
   military commissions, 48
jurisdiction, personal vs.                             
   subject-matter, 293
jury trial, right to, 418n53
Justice Department
      declassification of
         documents, 339
      General Intelligence
         Division, 90

K

Kanwal, Shumaila, 309
Kappe, Walter, 125
Kennedy, Anthony, 292, 293
Kennedy, John F.commutation of Scales 
         sentence, 179
      Vietnam conflict
         under, 177–185
Kentucky Resolutions of
   1798, 38–40
Kenya, Al Qaeda in, 297
Kerling, Edward, 125, 126
Keynes, John Maynard, 112
Khan, Samir, 324, 325
Khobar Towers explosion, 322
      Clinton and, 206
Kim II-Sung, 145–146
Kim, Stephen, 334
Kiriakou, John, 335
knowledge, power of, 227
“known unknowns”

      New York Times and, 246–247
      of Rumsfeld, 246
Knox, Dudley, 119
Knox, Frank, 131
Korea
      division, 145–146
      invasion of South by
         North, 157
      North, classified
         information on
         nuclear program, 335
      U.S. military retreat, 160
Korean War, property
   rights and, 167–172
Korematsu, Toyosaburo, 135–137
Korematsu v. United
   States, 134
Krass, Caroline D., 312
Ku Klux Klan, 185
      FBI investigation, 189
Kurdistan Workers Party
   (PKK), 237
Kuwait, 203

L

Labor Management
   Relations Act of 1947, 169
Laos, North Vietnam
   invasion, 178
Leavitt, Humphrey H., 360n31
legal services, as goods, 12
Leibowitz, Shamai, 334
Leviathan (Hobbes), 5
Levin, Daniel, 268
Lewinsky-Clinton
   scandal, 207
Lewis, C.S., xxvi
Libby, Scooter, 217, 247
liberalism, 5n 
      of Warren Court, 165
libertarian theory, 352n17
libertarianism, 5n
liberty, loss of, xvii
al-Libi, Abu Anas, 313
Libya, 310–314
      civil war, 310–311
      U.S. presence in, 296
Lichtblau, Eric, 247
Lincoln, Abraham, xviixviii, 49
      Constitution and, 44–45
      martial law declared, 360n24 
      suspension of natural
         rights, xxv 
      suspension of right to
         habeas corpus, 43, 44, 45, 360n24
Linder, Hans-Heinz, 125
Lippman, Walter, vi
Livingston, Edward, 34
local law enforcement
   agencies, and drones, 332
Lochner v. United States, 66, 110–111
Locke, John, 13
      influence of, 4
      on liberty, 6n 
      Two Treatises of Civil
         Government, 5
lockouts, NWLB 
   renunciation
   requirement, 68
London, Meyer, 64
Los Angeles International
   Airport, 262
loyalty security program, 145
Luftwaffe, 115
Lusitania, 364n86 
      1915 sinking, 74–75
Lyon, Matthew, 36–37

M

MacArthur, Douglas, in
   Korea, 160
Maddox (USS), 180
Madison, James, vii, 3, 20, 42
      Federalist Papers, 187–188
      Federalist Papers No.
         43, 27
Madrid train bombing
   (2004), 240
Maginot Line, 101
mail, censorship in WWI, 84–85
al Majalah, 304–305
Mann Act (1910), 100
Manning, Bradley, 334
Marbury v. Madison, 253
Marcantonio, Vito, 103–104, 149
marijuana, federal laws, 40
Markoff, John, 227n
Marshall, John, delegation
   to Paris, 31–32
martial law, during Civil
   War, 47
Maryland, Union Army
   blockade, 43
material witness warrant, 279
Matthey, Walter, 82
Mauritania, 258
May Day riots (1919), 90
May Day Scare, and
   Palmer’s credibility, 91
Mayfield v. United States, 240
McCardle, Ex parte, 51–52
McCardle, William, 51
McCarran Internal
   Security Act of 1950, 146–151, 195, 284
      concentration camp
         provision, 148
      Supreme Court attack
         on, 181
      Truman veto, 150–151
McCollum Memo, 118
McCormack, John W., 97–98
McCormack-Dickstein 
   Committee, 97–98
McGohey, John F.X., 152, 156
McKelvey, Tara, “Inside the
   Killing Machine,” 326
McKenna, Joseph, 88
McKinley, William, assassination, 99
McMahon betrayal, 327–328
McMahon, Colleen, 327
McNamara, Robert, 181, 191
Medina, Harold R., 153–154, 156 
      Court of Appeals on
         jury instructions of, 159–160
Meints, John, 81–82
Menchken, H.L., 72
mental torture, 256
Merkeel, Angela, 343
Merryman, Ex parte, 41
Merryman, John, 43
Meyer v. Nebraska, 92
Middle East oil, 201
Middle East wars, 225
military advisors, in
   Vietnam, 178
Military Commission
   Order No. 1, 289
military commissions, 47–51, 275–277, 290–294
      at Guantanamo Bay, 277
      Lincoln and, 360n24 
      operation, 277–279
      revival, and right to
         trial, 274
Military Commissions Act
   of 2006, 270 
      Obama and, 315–319
      Supreme Court and, 293
Military Commissions Act
   of 2009, 317–318
military custody, and District Court
   jurisdiction, 283
military draft in WW I, 74
      evasion, 364n79
military interrogations, by Bush administration, 261
Military Order of
   November 13, 2001, 275–277
Military Police (MPs), zero-restriction
   treatment culture, 266
Military Training Act, 183
military tribunals, 124–131, 173
      embezzlement
         conviction by, 130
military, U.S. 
   Constitution on, 17
Militia Act of 1792, 29
Mill, John Stuart, 107
Millennium Plot, 262
Milligan, Ex parte, 48–51, 127, 275
Milligan, Lambdin, 48
“Milligan Rule,” 130
minority political
   groups, congressional
   sanctioned attacks on, 96
Les Misérables, 13
Mitchell, John, 195
mob violence, 79
      Supreme Court on, 86–89
Mogadishu, Battle of, 297
Mohamed, Binyam, 262
Mohammed, Jude, 324, 326
Mohammed, Khalid 
   Sheikh, 204, 214, 317, 319
      and September 11
         attacks, 290–291
Monica Lewinsky scandal, 207
Montgomery County
   Sheriff’s Office (Texas), 332
moot cases, 342
More, Thomas, treason
   trial, xxiiixxiv
Morgan, Edmund S., vi
Morris, Dick, 204
Morris, Larry, 292
Morrison v. Olson, 196
Moss, John, 244
Mueller, Robert S., III, 229, 230
mujahideen, 202
Mukasey, Michael, 280
Mundt-Ferguson
   Communist Registration
   Bill of 1950, 148
Mundt-Nixon Bill (1948), 148
murder, justifying, 255
Murphy, Frank, 99, 105
      dissent on Korematsu, 137
Murray, Bill, “Over
   There,” 73n
mutuality, contracts
   lacking, 71
Myers, Henry, 62

N

Nacchio, Joseph P., 231–233
Nagasaki, xxv
Naitonal Security Council
   Intelligence Directive, 144
Napoleon, 33
National Civil Liberties
   Bureau, 81, 82
National Defense
   Authorization Act for
   Fiscal Year 2012, 318–319
National Defense Council, 68
National Labor Relations
   Act, 172
national security
      vs. civil liberties, 49
      and unconstitutional
         domestic government
         intrusions, 190
National Security Act, 144
National Security Agency
   (NSA), 144, 217
      accountability shifting, 250 
      Snowden release of
         files, 336
      telephony and Internet 
         metadata collection, 219 
      timeline of warrantless 
         wiretapping
         authorization, 339
National Security
   Council, 144, 208–209
National Security Letter, In
   re, 338
National Security Letters, 224, 238–240
National Transitional
   Council, fighting against
   Qaddafi, 311
National War Labor Board
   (NWLB), 66, 67–68
nation’s belief in freedom, testing, xviii
NATO, in Libya, 313
Natural law, 4, 301, 346
      and property transfers, 172
      self-ownership and, 6
natural rights, xxiiixxv, 5–7, 8–9
      and federal
         government, xxvi 
      increased respect for, 91
      Lincoln’s suspension
         of, xxv 
      right to self-ownership
         and, 78
      silence as, xxiv
Naturalization Act, 33
      repeal, 35
Nazi Wehrmacht (Defense
   Force), 115
Nazism, 96–101
      congressional
         investigation, 97
      saboteurs in U.S., 124–127
Nelles, Walter, 92
Nelson, Donald M., 116, 120
neoconservatives, vs. 
   classical liberals, 271
Neubauer, Herman O., 125
neutrality of U.S., 31
New Deal, Supreme Court
   and, 112
New Jersey Continentals, mutineers from, 29
New York Times, 268, 309
      injunction against, 192
      on Kennedy, 179
      “known unknowns”
         and, 246–247
      on NSA monitoring
         of international
         telephone calls, 246
      and Pentagon Papers, 190
      on sedition trial, 108, 109
New York Times v. United
   States, 193–194
New York Times v. United
   States Department of
   Justice, 327
New York World, 84
news media, 246
“Nisei” Battalion, 136–137
Nixon, Richard, 144, 148
      promise of peace with
         honor, 186
      and Vietnam War, 184, 186–195
Nixon administration, troop deployment, 20
No Treason (Spooner), 7
noble lies, xvii
Non-Aggression Principle, 8
Non-Detention Act of
   1971, xix, 195, 281–282, 284
non-mailability provision, 61–62
nonresident aliens, litigation in U.S. courts, 282
Nosair, El Sayyid, 204–205
nullification, 38–40

O

Obama, Barack, xviii, xxvi, 267, 296
      Afghanistan and Iraq
         war policy changes, 296
      on Davis, 308
      and deaths of U.S. 
         citizens, 324
      drone strikes, 323
      and military
         commissions, 317
      as Senator, 291
Obama administration
      and Qaddafi, 311
      and right to trial, 315–319
      torture and unlimited
         rendition, 314–315
      and U.S. in Somalia, 301–303
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 283–284
Office of Emergency
   Management (OEM), 117
Office of Legal Counsel
   (OLC), 228, 252–253
Office of Price
   Administration and
   Civilian Supply, 118
Office of Production
   Management (OPM), 117
Ohio, criminal 
   syndicalism statute, 185
Olson, Culbert, 132
Operation Enduring
   Freedom, 215
Operation Pastorius, 124
opinion statements, Supreme Court on, 107
Orwell, George, 201, 211, 321
Overman, Lee, 65, 90
Overman Act, 65–66
Overman Committee, 90

P

Padilla, José, 279
pain, severity in torture, 255–256
Pakistan
      U.S. presence in, 296 
      Waziristani theatre, 306–310
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 90
PATRIOT Act of 2001, 219–226, 338
      courts on
         unconstitutionality, 236–242
      Fourth Amendment
         and, 240
      government authority
         to punish service
         providing assistance, 224–225
      material support
         provision, 237 
      Obama signing of, 333–343
patriotism, 10
Payne, James F.X., 232
Pearl Harbor
      FDR advance
         knowledge of attack, 118–119 
      Pelley statement on, 106
      U.S. fleet in, 119
Pelley Trial, 105–107, 109
Pelley, William D., 105
Pelosi, Nancy, 259
pen register, 223
Pentagon, 2001 attack, 211
Pentagon Papers, 190–195
Perilous Times (Biddle), 105
perpetual war, creating, 303
personal information, government collection
   of, 226–227
personal jurisdiction, vs. subject-matter
   jurisdiction, 293
personal liberty. See civil
   liberties
Philbin, Patrick F., 275, 277
Philippines, fall in 1942, 115
Pierce v. United States, 89
Pink Palace court, 274
Plato, The Republic, 58
Podesta, John D., 242–243
Poindexter, John M., 226
Poitras, Laura, 336
political accountability, 248
political activism, power
   of, 187
political expression, individual’s right to, 60–61
political parties, and
   English-French tensions, 33
political question, in 
   al-Aulaqi case, 328
Posse Comitatus Act of
   1878, 52–54
Poster, William Z., 144
postmaster general
      control of disloyal
         mail, 84–85
      non-mailability 
         provision and, 61–62
Powell, Colin, 217
precedence of rights, theory of, 13
President
      authority to conduct
         war, 255
      as Commander in
         Chief, 19–20, 196
      Constitution on war
         powers, 17–18
      and constitutional
         protections in
         wartime, 51
      military commissions, 47–51
      power to declare
         Internal Security
         Emergency, 148
      and treason cases, 330
      War Powers Act and, 113–114
Presidential Decision
   Directive 39, 205
presidential election of
   1796, 31
presidential election of
   1800, 39
presidential election of
   1948, 152–153
presidential power, 169
      attacks on, 195–199
      congressional action
         and, 171
      executive powers, 46
      seizure of, 50
     Youngstown Sheet case
         on, 167–172
President’s Surveillance
   Program (PSP), 218–219, 228, 248
      Bush authorization, 337
press censorship, in WWI, 59–60
price regulations, 67
PRISM, 250
      and Snowden, 336–338
privacy rights, 80
      domestic drones and, 331–333
      in Global War on
         Terror, 217–226 
      Obama administration
         and, 333–343
private communications, legal standard for search
   and seizure, 340
propaganda, 72
      in increase popular
         support for WWI, 74–79
      Senate committee to
         investigate Bolshevik
         and un-American, 90
property rights, 65–71
      Korean War and, 167–172
      protection of, 114
property transfers, Natural law and, 172
Protect America Act of
   2007, 248–249, 334
The Public, 84
public information, control of, 244
public opinion, in war, 10–11
publicity, 193

Q

Qaddafi, Muammar, 310–311
al Qaeda, 202–203
      attack on U.S. 
         embassies in
         Tanzania and Kenya, 206
      detainees at Gitmo, 278
      first attacks on U.S. 
         targets, 204
      in Kenya, 297
      operatives detention in
         secret prisons, 260
      Al Shabab in Somalia
         and, 302
      in Somalia, 298
al Qaeda in Arabian
   Peninsula (AQAP), 304
Qahtani (Guantanamo
   inmate), 263–264
Qanyare, Mohamed 
   Afrah, 297, 298
Qassem, Talaat Fouad, 252
Quirin, Ex parte, 124–131
Quirin, Richard, 125
Qwest, 232–233

R

Rahman, “Blind Sheikh,”
   204
Ramadan, Tariq, 231
      visa denied to, 233–236
Rankin, John E., 149, 151
Rasul, Shafiq, 282
Rasul v. Bush, 270, 279–286
Reagan, Ronald, 139
      ban on assassinations, 322
      and Qaddafi, 311
REAL ID Act of 2005, 40
Reconstruction Acts, 51
Reconstruction era, military districts, 52–53
Red Scare, 86
Red Scare (Second), 138, 144, 145, 146
      end of, 165–167
Reed, James A., 63
Rehnquist, William H., xxx, 50, 280
Reid, Harry, xx
Reid v. Covert, 173
Reportergate, 335
The Republic (Plato), 58
Republican Party, and
   writ of habeas corpus
   suspension, 45–46
Republicans, and English-French tensions, 33
revenge, drones and, 323
Revere, Paul, 24
Rice, Condoleezza, 311
right to jury trial, 418n53
right to privacy. See
   privacy rights
right to self-ownership
      after Depression, 110–113
      Natural law and, 6
      natural liberty and, 78
right to trial, 124–131
      military commission
         revival and, 274
Risen, James, 335
Roberts, John G., 288, 338
Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr., 5n
Romney, Mitt, 323
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 99
Roosevelt, Franklin D., xxv, 93 
      advance knowledge of
         Pearl Harbor attack, 118–119
      on Alien and Sedition
         Act, 104
      court packing, 112
      on military areas, 123
      and power, 121
      pressure to persecute
         Americans as
         Communist and Nazi
         sympathizers, 105
      Proclamation No. 
         2561, 126
Roosevelt, Theodore, 63–64, 100
Rosen, James, 334
Rosenberg, Julius and
   Ethel, 149
Rothbard, Murray N., vii, 7n
roving wiretaps provision, 221
Rumsfeld, Donald, 216, 246, 254, 258–259
      Military Commission
         Order No. 1, 277
Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 270, 279–286
al-Ruqai, Nazih Abdul-Hamed, 313
Rutledge, Harry D. Jr., 232

S

saboteurs
      denial of right to
         civilian trial, 124
      Nazi, in U.S., 124–127
Safire, William, 227
Saigon, planned military
   operations in, 191
Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 303–304
Sanders, Bernie, xix
Saturday Evening Post, 109
Saudi Arabia, 203
      secret base in, 305
Scahill, Jeremy, 308
      Dirty Wars, 260, 301
Scales v. United States, 179
Scalia, Antonin, 283
      dissent in Hamdi, 284–285
Schaefer v. United States, 88
Schenck v. United States, 86–87
Scott, Winfield, 44
searches and seizures
      protections, 80
      unreasonable, 221
secrecy
      in Cold War, 199
      PATRIOT Act and, 222
Secret Committee
   (Continental Congress), 25
secret government, vs. government
   transparency, 346
security, xvii
      vs. freedom, 3, 11–13
      as goods, 12
Sedition Act of 1798, 33, 34–35
Sedition Act of 1918, 62–65, 79
      criminal prosecutions
         under, 82–84
      repeal, 91
sedition, Lyon indictment
   for, 37
Selective Service Act of
   1948, 169
self-determination, 111, 301
self-ownership
      after Depression, 110–113
      Natural law and, 6
      natural liberty and, 78
self-preservation, 360n31
Separation of Powers
   principle, 168, 196
September 2001 attacks, xxvi, 211
      efforts to link Iraq, 216
Shane, Scott, 232
Sharia courts, 298
Sharia law, 310
Sheldon, Hugh, 216
Silent Majority, 187
Silver Shirts, 105
Slahi, Mohamedou Ould, 261–263
Smith Act of 1940, 101–105, 138, 151
      criminal prosecutions
         under, 152–157
      membership provision
         of, 179
      Supreme Court on, 162
     Yates decision and, 165–166, 167
Smith and Wesson case
   (NWLB), 67–68
Smith, Bryant, 50
Smith, Howard W., 102
“sneak and peek” warrant
   provision, 223, 241
Snowden, Edward, 246, 335–338
      and PRISM, 336–338
social compact, 78–79
      Constitution as, 7
Socialist Party, 89
      government overthrow
         advocated, 94
Socialist Workers Party, FBI investigation, 189
Socialists, and May Day
   riots, 90
Somalia, U.S. presence in, 296, 297–303
South Carolina, nullification of federal
   law, 39
Southeast Asia, 178
sovereignty, 39
Soviet Union, 143
      U.S. views of, 177–185
Special Committee on 
   Un-American Activities
   to Investigate Nazi
   Propaganda, 98
Special Forces, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and
   Escape (SERE) program, 259
The Spirit of ‘76 (film), 82
Spooner, Lysander, No
   Treason, 7

spying, domestic, with
   drones, 332
Stalin, Josef, and Korean
   conflict, 146
Standards of Conduct for
   Interrogation, 254–255
state laws, First
   Amendment protections
   and, 95
state secrecy
      statutes on, 58–59
      and war power, 259
state wars, 352n21
states
      and Congressional
         acts, 40
      legitimate power of, 7
stealth technology, and
   drones, 332
steel industry, 168
STELLARWIND, 218–219, 337
Sterling, Jeffrey, 335
Stevens, John Paul, 283, 289, 290
      dissent in Hamdi, 284–285
Stimson, Henry, 133
Stinnett, Robert B., Day of
   Deceit, 118, 243–244
Stockholm Syndrome, 263
Stokes, Rose, 83
Stone, Geoffrey R., 105, 106–107, 191
Stone, Lausen H., 126
strict scrutiny standard of
   review, 136
strikes, NWLB 
   renunciation
   requirement, 68
Students for a Democratic
   Society, 186
Suárez, Francisco, 5
subject-matter
   jurisdiction, vs. 
   personal jurisdiction, 293
Subversive Activities
   Control Board (SACB), 147, 180
Sudan, 203
“Suicide Pact,” xxix
Summa Theologica 
   (Aquinas), 8, 13
Sumners, Hatton, 104
Supply Priorities and
   Allocation Board
   (SPAB), 117
Supreme Court, 18. See
   also specific case names
      appellate jurisdiction
         after Civil War, 51–52
      on mob violence, 86–89
      opposition to
         Bush’s military
         commissions, 279–294
      and presidential
         executive orders, 171–172 
      Quirin case problems, 127–130
      and relationship to
         Congress, 287
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
   (SERE) program, 259
Swann, Robert L., 279
Swift, Charlie, 288
Syngman Rhee, 145

T

Taft administration, protection of military
   information, 58
Taft, William Howard, 67
Taguba, Antonio M., 266
Taliban, 205–206
      control of Afghanistan
         in 2001, 213
      response to Bush
         call for bin Laden
         surrender, 214–215
Talleyrand, Marquis de, 32
Taney, Roger Brooke, 43
      on Presidential powers, 359n10
Tehran, U.S. Embassy in, 202
telecommunications
   companies 
      FISA Amendments Act
         of 2008 and, 250
      information from, 222 
      NSA capture and
         storage of phone
         conversation
         content, 340 
      NSA monitoring of
         international calls, 246
Tenet, George, 218, 259
Terminiello v. Chicago, xxix–xxxi
The Terror Courts
   (Bravin), 263, 265
terrorism. See also World
   Trade Center
      1980 to 2001, 201–209
      Berlin nightclub
         bombing, 202
      Madrid train bombing
         (2004), 240
Terrorism Surveillance
   Program, 218–219, 228, 337
testing nation’s belief in
   freedom, xviii
Tet Offensive, 183
Texas Law Review, 50
Thiel, Werner, 125
Thompson, Robert, 156–157
thought crimes, imprisonment for, 90
torture, 205, 250, 251
      Bush administration
         and, 253 
      Bybee on conditions
         constituting, 256
      challenges to Bush’s
         power and sanction
         of, 267 
      Cheney program, 257–267
      by Egypt secret police, 252 
      Obama administration
         and, 314–315
      U.S. Code on, 254
Torture Memos, 254–257
torture statements, and
   military commission
   trials, 291
Torture Victims Prevention
   Act of 1991,
255
Total Information
   Awareness, 226–250
Trading with Enemy Act, 114
traitors
      Founding Fathers as, 352n15 
      meaning in 1700s, 27
transparency of
   government, 243
treason, 26
      England’s punishment
         for, 27
      Founding Fathers on, 27–28
      Pennsylvania farmers
         and, 29
treaties, vs. freedom, 173–175
trial, right to, 124–131
      military commission
         revival and, 274
Truman, Harry, xxv, 144
      approach in Korean
         War, 168
      call for overseas
         initiatives, 144–145
      and communist
         containment, 178
truth, xvii
Two Treatises of Civil
   Government (Locke), 5

U

U-boats, 115
      in New York and
         Florida, 124–127
Ulema, of Afghan imams, 214
Uniform Code of Military
   Justice, 289, 316
United Nations Security
   Council
      and no-fly zone over
         Libya, 311
      Resolution 83, 146
U. S. Congress, 17–19
      ceding of power to
         President, 144
      Congressional
         Research Service
         Report (2009), 245
      delegation of power to
         declare war, 215–216
      intelligence briefings
         for Gang of Eight, 258
      investigatory
         committees, 96
      jurisdiction stripping
         after Civil War, 51–52
      power to suspend
         habeas corpus, 43, 45–46
      and presidential power, 171
      and president’s
         commitment of
         troops to conflicts, 196
      protection of military
         information, 58
United States v. Carolene 
   Products, 112
United States v. O’Brien, 180, 183–184
United States v. Rahman, 204
United States v. Robel, 181–183
United Steel Workers of
   America, 168
U.S. Army, in 1940, 115
U.S. citizens, protections
   abroad, 173
U.S. Constitution, 346
      as agreement among
         states, 39
      Article III, 330
      Bush’s claim of power
         to interpret in secret, 253
      Contracts Clause, 111
      and ex post facto law, 128
      Founding Fathers on
         role of government, 4
      reasons for, 16
      as social compact, 7
      Suspension Clause, 43, 283, 284, 285, 293
            and Guantanamo, 293
      Treason clause, 124, 205, 356n37 
            and al-Aulaqi case, 329–331
            and First
               Amendment, 27–28
      war powers
         allocation, 16–21
      World War I, and
         violations, 58
      First Amendment, xxx, 35, 72
            clear and present
               danger, 156
            and public’s right to
               know, 192–193
            and state laws, 95
            Supreme Court
               and, 92
            underlying premise, 162
      Fourth Amendment, 80, 190, 221, 248
            PATRIOT Act and, 240
      Fifth Amendment, 67, 80, 111, 114, 173–175, 329–331
            Due Process, 167
              See also due
               process
            Takings Clause, 65
      Sixth Amendment, 173–175
      Fourteenth
         Amendment, 369n10
U.S. Special Forces, capture of accused
   terrorists, 313
University of Notre Dame, 235
unreasonable searches
   and seizures, 221
unripe cases, 342
Urban II (pope), 225n
USA PATRIOT Act of
   2001, 219–226, 338
      courts on
         unconstitutionality, 236–242
      Fourth Amendment
         and, 240
      government authority
         to punish service
         providing assistance, 224–225
      material support
         provision, 237 
      Obama signing of, 333
Uzbekistan, 307

V

Vallandigham, Clement, 47–48
Vallandigham, Ex parte, 47–51
Vardaman, James K, 63
vice president, exception
   to declassification rules, 245, 246
Vietnam conflict, 20
      draft dodgers, 73
      Gulf of Tonkin 
         Resolution, 180
      under JFK and LBJ, 177–185
      and Nixon, 184
      U.S. casualties, 195
      as war of aggression, 191–192
Vietnam Moratorium of
   November 1969, 187
vigilantism, 89. See also
   mob violence
Vinson, Fred, 161–162
violence, 352n17 
      against a person, 8
Virginia Resolutions of
   1798, 38–40
voice-mail
   communications, government access to, 222
void for vagueness
   doctrine, 237
Volstead, Andrew, 60
Voltaire, 81
voluntary organizations, enforcing law with, 79–82

W

wage regulations, 67
Wage Stabilization Board, 168
Waldron, Charles, 83
Wallace, Henry A., 120, 152
Walsh, Frank P., 67
Walsh, Thomas, 62
Walton, Reggie B., 341
war
      citizens’ response to
         destruction, 10
      and health of state, 9–11, 57, 228
      president and
         constitutional
         protections in, 51
      repression of thoughts
         on propriety, 244
      Warren on overexercise
         of authority, 182
War Boards, 115–116
war hysteria, 10, 224
      in 1950s, 149, 150
      after 9/11, 212
      Bush and, 291
      FDR and, 94
      and Japanese
         internment, 131
      Korean invasion and, 146, 157–158
      and Muslim
         crackdowns, 325
      and persecution of
         dissenters, 231
      Supreme Court and, 130, 163, 165
      Truman and, 145, 150
      in WW II, 101, 108
War Industries Board, 66, 68–71
war on terror
      beginnings, 204
      Clinton administration
         and, 203–208
War on Terror
   Congresses, 257
war powers, 17, 266–267
      allocation under
         Constitution, 16–21
      jurisprudence, 182–183
      and state secrecy, 259
War Powers Acts (1941
   and 1942), 113–114
War Powers Resolution of
   1973, 18, 195–197 
      Obama and, 312
War Production Board
   (WPB), 119–120
War Relocation Authority, 133
War Resources Board
   (WRB), 116
warlords, in Somalia, 297–298
warrant, xx
warrantless wiretapping, NSA authorization, 339
Warren Court, 165–167
Warren, Earl, 132, 153, 178
      Watkins opinion, 166–167
Warren, Lindsay, 97
Washington, George, xxv, 24, 314
      response to mutiny, 29
Washington Post, 109, 190
      and Pentagon Papers, 190
waterboarding, 261, 292
Watergate, 190–195
Watkins v. United States, 166–167
Waziristani (Pakistani) 
   theatre, 306–310
weaponized drone
   warfare, 322
weapons, in Somalia, 299
weapons of mass
   destruction (WMDs), 216–217
      intelligence gathering
         on, 259
Weathermen, 186
Webb, Edwin, 60
Webb Amendment, 61
West Coast Hotel v. 
   Parrish, 110, 112
Whiskey Rebellion, 29–30
Whitney v. California
   (1927), 95
Williams, Mark, 227
Wilson, James, 29
Wilson, Woodrow, xxv, 58, 59
      Justice Department, 65
      peace platform, 365n94 
      political suppression, 71–86
      reaction to Lusitania
         sinking, 75
      request for vote of
         confidence, 73
      stroke, 89–90
      suppression of
         unpopular
         viewpoints in WWI, 72–79
wiretap authorizations, 198
wiretap warrants, 221
Wolfowitz, Paul, 216, 285–286
Woods, Thomas, Nullification, 39–40
Woodward, Bob, 306n 
      Obama’s Wars, 296
Wool Division
   Controversy, 69–71
workweek, for World War
   II duration, 120
World Trade Center
      1993 bombings, 204–205
      2001 attack, 211
            and permanent
               state of
               emergency, 274
World War I
      censorship of mail, 84–85
      and Constitution
         violations, 58
      declaration of war, 65
      suppression of
         unpopular
         viewpoints, 72–79
World War II
      Congress declaration
         of war, 113
      economic preparation, 118
writ of attachment, 44
Wyden, Ron, xx

X

XYZ Affair, 30–33

Y

Yates v. United States, 165
Yemen, 303–306, 325
      U.S. presence in, 296
Yoo, John C., 218, 254, 268, 277
      letter on legal
         arguments
         for avoiding
         international
         criminal jurisdiction, 257
Youngstown Sheet and
   Tube Co. vs. Sawyer, 167–172
Yousef, Ramiz, 204
Yugoslavia conflict, 20n

Z

Zabara, Mullah, 306