Overview
Description
Assess the impact of security threat groups and homeland security on national and international law and case law.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify the constitutional law and federal statutes that provide authority for our war on terrorism and homeland security efforts, including FISA, the USA Patriot Act and others.
- locate and explain the policy objectives and methods of the Bush Administration as it has undertaken to promote freedom in the world and ensure security in our country.
- delineate tactics and plans the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ispursuing to identify terrorists, regulate travel, secure our borders, and promote the safety of our country.
- understand and discuss the different viewpoints on the use of enhanced interrogation, torture, indefinite detention and other issues involving “enemy combatants” and others held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- articulate the constitutional issues confronting the courts in the United States as they begin to scrutinize the methods utilized in our war on terrorism.
- summarize the rulings of America’s federal courts and judicial authorities in other nations on recent cases filed by those who have been arrested, captured and detained since 9/11.
- recognize and discuss legal issues regarding the future of habeas corpus, use of military tribunals, domestic and foreign wiretapping and other major questions raised in our pursuit of homeland security.