The National Surveillance State and the Next Administration
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| Jack Balkin, [http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/08/party-of-fear-party-without-spine-and.html "The Party of Fear, the Party Without A Spine, and the National Surveillance State,"] Balkanization (Aug. 5, 2007)<br> | Jack Balkin, [http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/08/party-of-fear-party-without-spine-and.html "The Party of Fear, the Party Without A Spine, and the National Surveillance State,"] Balkanization (Aug. 5, 2007)<br> | ||
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| Marc Rotenberg, [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933690 "The Sui Generis Privacy Agency: How the United States Institutionalized Privacy Oversight After 9-11"] SSRN (Sept. 28, 2006)<br> | Marc Rotenberg, [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933690 "The Sui Generis Privacy Agency: How the United States Institutionalized Privacy Oversight After 9-11"] SSRN (Sept. 28, 2006)<br> | ||
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Panel Summary
The United States is drifting toward a National Surveillance States, but what the Next President should do is not clear. End the domestic surveillance program? Close down the fusion centers? Take the surveillance cameras off the city streets? Stop passenger screening? If only it were so easy. Experts commentators and former government officials will look at the challenges and opportunities for next administration.
Speakers
Moderator: Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Jack Balkin (Yale Law School)
Aziz Huq (Brennan Center)
Alan Raul (CivLib and Privacy Oversight Board)
Suzanne Spaulding (ABA Comm on Law & National Sec)
Detailed Description
Professor Jack Balkin has warned that the United States is "rapidly moving toward a National Surveillance State." The evidence is clear: more surveillance, less oversight; more profiling, less accountability. What is the next President to do? This panel will present high-level perspectives from expert commentators and former government officials on the challenge. The panel will benefit from both the exchanges among the participants and the opportunity for CFPers to ask the experts about past problems and future solutions.
This panel also comes with an excellent reading list. Several of the panelists have written extensively on the civil liberties problems of the Bush years. But so far there has been little discussion about what the next President should do differently. That discussion could begin on this panel at CFP 2008.
Reading and Resources
Jack Balkin, "The Party of Fear, the Party Without A Spine, and the National Surveillance State," Balkanization (Aug. 5, 2007)
Frederick A.O. Schwartz and Aziz Z. Huq, [http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&task=author&author_id=P37640 "Unchecked and Unbalanced:
Presidential Power in a Time of Terror." (New Press 2007)
Marc Rotenberg, "The Sui Generis Privacy Agency: How the United States Institutionalized Privacy Oversight After 9-11" SSRN (Sept. 28, 2006)
