Forced isolation.
Mr. Hillen is the Olin Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an NR contributing editor. AT a recent meeting with a handful of foreign-policy experts, a senior State Department official lamented the lack of congressional enthusiasm for an indefinite American military commitment in...

And the walls came tumbling down: sharing grand jury information with the intelligence community under the USA Patriot Act.
As a British politician supposedly once stated, democracies respond when there is blood in the streets. (1) In response to the tragic and horrifying events of September 11, Congress moved with virtually unprecedented speed to enact a sweeping new piece of anti-terrorism legislation known as the USA PATRIOT Act....

Senate Blue Ribbon Committee sets hearing on Venable contract.
Byline: JUDE C. GALFORD III Sen. Joker Arroyo, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, said the panel "will hold a public hearing on the role of the national security adviser in the signing of the contract with Venable." The committee hearing will be held...

Statement By President Bush.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by President Bush: Today I have signed into law H.R. 6344, the "Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006" (the "Act"). The Act amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of...

Challenging the legality of section 106 of the USA PATRIOT Act.
I. INTRODUCTION The attacks of September 11, 2001 have focused our national security efforts on eradicating terrorism. In doing so, the government has enacted legislation to provide law enforcement with powerful tools to combat this imminent threat. One such piece of legislation is the PATRIOT Act, which...

A sense of purpose: the role of law enforcement in foreign intelligence surveillance.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (1) "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance...." (2) In the fall of 2002, the United States government gained a blunt...

How the USA PATRIOT Act will permit governmental infringement upon the privacy of Americans in the name of "intelligence" investigations.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning...

The Australia--Japan Partnership in the Asia-Pacific: From Economic Diplomacy to Security Co-operation?
Australia and Japan have been acclaimed as taking joint initiatives in establishing regional economic institutions such as the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council and the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum. This article seeks to establish why both countries have been able to forge a partnership in an Asia-Pacific economic community. The...

No independent US operation - Arroyo; Terms of Reference amended.
Byline: FERDIE J. MAGLALANG, GABRIEL S. MABUTAS<BR> President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assured yesterday that visiting American troops will not operate independently from their Filipino counterparts during their sixmonth joint military training exercises against terrorism. The President made the assurance as Vice President and Foreign Affairs...

Minnesota and the World Abroad.
THE ALMOST FOREIGN MINISTER IN THE SPRING OF 1991, with Yugoslavia on the brink of its slide toward bloody dismemberment, President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia prepared to welcome a new foreign minister into his cabinet. His name was Rudy Perpich, and his credentials included spending the previous...