Resources
After the first week of the new 2011 term, here you will find most of the handouts and PowerPoint slides used in class, as well as a password protected digital library.
Handouts
- PowerPoint from Lesson 2 on 1/19/11
Overview of the Institutions and Major Legislative Packages Involved in Counterterrorism. - Outline for Lesson 3 & 4 on targeted killing.
- Outline for Lesson 5, beginning of Chapter 4.
- Outline for for Lesson 6.
- Outline of Lesson 7 on 2/9/11.
- PowerPoint slides used in class at end of 2/14/11, Lesson 8.
- Handout, part of assignment for Lesson 9 on 2/16/11.
- Outline of Lesson 9 on 2/16/11.
- Outline of Lesson 10 on 2/21/11.
- Handout, part of assignment for Lesson 12.
- Outline for Lesson 12 on 2/28/11.
- Replacement Chapter 8 for Lesson 13 on 3/2/11.
- Outline for Lesson 13 on 3/2/11.
- Outline of Lesson 14 on 3/9/11 on investigating abroad.
- Outline for Lesson 15 on 3/21/11 on civil detention.
- PowerPoint slides from Lesson 16 on 3/23/11 on Suspending the Great Writ.
- Outline of Lesson 17 on 3/30/11 (military detention part 1).
Open Source Documents
9/11/01 attacks:
- Complete report of The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission).
al Qaeda:
- al Qaeda or Osama Bin Laden statement or "Fatwah" of 1996.
- al Qaeda or Osama Bin Laden statement or "Fatwah" of 1998.
- Al Qaeda Training Manual (The Manchester Document), Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
- Al Qaeda: Profile and Threat Assessment, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report, February 10, 2005.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act:
Intelligence Oversight Law:
- Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book, 2009; produced by the Office of General Counsel by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [comprehensive texts of source documents, almost 1000 pages long)
Military Commissions Act:
National Security Strategy:
- United States National Security Strategy dated May 2010.
Sentinel, journal of West Point's Counter-Terrorism Center: