Table of Contents:
  • The Library Awareness Program : precursor to the USA PATRIOT Act
  • The legislative response to 9/11 : conceived under siege, passed in haste
  • The USA PATRIOT Act : the bill that defined America's domestic war on terrorism
  • Domestic surveillance under the Patriot Act
  • Detention, deportation, exclusion, and expropriation
  • Congressional oversight of the Patriot Act
  • Amendments and legal challenges to the Patriot Act
  • Reauthorization and beyond : the new and improved patriot act.