Lost liberties : Ashcroft and the assault on personal freedom / edited by Cynthia Brown.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-302) and index.

part 1. TOOLS FOR A NEW KIND OF WAR. The course of least resistance : repeating history in the war on terrorism / David Cole -- How democracy dies : the war on our civil liberties / Nancy Chang -- After 9/11 : a surveillance state? / Reg Whitaker -- part 2. THE ASHCROFT APPROACH. Secret arrests and preventive detention / Kate Martin -- Racial profiling post-9/11 : old story, new debate / Tanya E. Coke -- Living in fear : how the U.S. government's war on terror impacts American lives / Anthony D. Romero -- The war on terrorism : the Guantánamo prisoners, military commissions, and torture / Michael Ratner -- Breaking the code, or, Can the press be saved from itself? / Michael Tomasky -- part 3. PRIVACY, SECRECY, AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Balancing in a crisis? : Bioterrorism, public health, and privacy / Janlori Goldman -- The public health fallout from September 11 : official deception and long-term damage / Joel R. Kupferman -- part 4. GLOBAL THREAT, GLOBAL CITIZEN. Axis of antagonism : U.S.-European relations in the war on terrorism / Gary Younge -- The "war on terror" and women's rights : a Pakistan-Afghan perspective / Farida Shaheed -- Human rights, the Bush administration, and the fight against terrorism : the need for a positive vision / Kenneth Roth.