Selected Homeland Security Reports, Documents, and Bills: 

• CRS Report No. RL34279, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues (Dec. 7, 2007)
  
  
• CRS Report No. RL34277, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Comparison of House-Passed H.R. 3773, S. 2248, as Reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and S. 2248 as Reported Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee (Dec. 6, 2007)
  
  
• GAO-07-1081T Homeland Security:  Progress Report on Implementation of Mission and Management Functions (Sept. 6, 2007)
  
  
• S.1927 ES Protect America Act of 2007 (Aug. 5, 2007)
  
  
• GAO-07-1142T Homeland Security:  Observations on DHS and FEMA Efforts to Prepare for and Respond to Major and Catastrophic Disasters and Address Related Recommendations and Legislation (Jul. 31, 2007)
  
  
• GAO-07-706R Critical Infrastructure Protection:  Sector Plans and Sector Councils Continue to Evolve (Jul. 10, 2007)
  
  
• Senate Report No. 110-90 Habeus Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 (Jun. 26, 2007)
  
  
• CRS Report No. RL33180, Enemy Combatant Detainees:  Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court (Jun. 26, 2007)
  
  
• Report by Trust for America's Health, "Pandemic Flu and the Potential for U.S. Economic Recession, a State-By-State Analysis" (Mar. 2007)
  
  
• Report of the Office of Inspector General, "A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters" (Mar. 2007)
  
  
• Report prepared by Congressman Weiner (D-NY) and Congressman Flake (R-AZ), "Security or Pork? A Review of National Homeland Security Boondoggles" ( Mar. 1, 2007)
  
  
• 9-11 Implementation Bill and Commission Recommendations At-a-Glance (Jan. 5, 2007)
  
  
• 9-11 Implementation Bill (Jan. 5, 2007)
  
  
• CRS Report No. RL33742, 9/11 Commission Report: Implementation Status (Dec. 4, 2006)
  
  
• Senate Floor Debate on the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (Sept. 27, 2006)
  
  
• Letter from the American Bar Association to U.S. Senators regarding the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (Sept. 27, 2006)
  
  
• H.R. 5825 Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act of 2006 (Sept. 25, 2006)
  
  
• CRS Report No. RL33667, Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications (Sept. 20, 2006)
  
  
• CRS Report No. RL33643, Undisclosed U.S. Detention Sites Overseas: Background and Legal Issues (Sept. 12, 2006)
  
  
• Senate Armed Services Committee version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (Sept. 11, 2006)
  
  
• The Frist-McConell Bill (Sept. 6, 2006)
  
  
• Report on Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the United States During the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks (Sept. 2006)
  
  
• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, (Sept. 2006)
  
  
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program (Sept. 6, 2006)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Defense Detainee Directive, (Sept. 6, 2006)
  
  
• Army Field Manual, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, (Sept. 6, 2006)
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Department of Justice Anti-Terrorism Efforts Since September 11, 2001 (Sept. 5, 2006)
  
  
• Report of the American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine (July 24, 2006)
  
  
• Nationwide Plan Review: Phase 2 Report, U.S. Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation (June 16, 2006)
  
  
• Statement for the Record, George W. Foresman, Under Secretary for Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, Before the House Government Reform Committee (June 15, 2006)
  
  
• Joint Testmony of the National Capital Region's Senior Homeland Security Policy Group, before the House Committee on Government Reform, "Regional Insecurity: DHS Grants to the National Capital Region" (June 15, 2006)
  
  
• American Constitution Society Issue Brief, Neil Kinkopf, "Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law," June 2006
  
  
• CRS Report, Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities, (May 17, 2006)
  
  
• Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy on "NSA III: War Time Executive Power and the FISA Court," (Mar. 28, 2006)
  
  
• USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis, CRS Report (Mar. 24, 2006)
  
  
• National Security Strategy of the United States for 2006 (Mar. 16, 2006)
  
  
• CDC Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors (Jan. 2006)
  
  
• Alberto Mora's Memorandum For Inspector General, Department of the Navy, Regarding Office of General Counsel Involvement in Interrogation Issues (July 7, 2004)
  
  
• Memorandum on the Continuity of Constitutional Government in the State of Maryland, submitted as part of CHHS testimony in support of the Task Force to Study Gubernatorial Succession in Maryland (June 30, 2004; submitted as part of CHHS testimony in support of Task Force Studying Gubernatorial Succession in Maryland, Feb. 7, 2006)
  
  
• Letter from Sen. Pat Roberts on the Constitutionality of Warrantless Surveillance (Feb. 3, 2006)
  
  
• GAO, Report on the Hurricane Katrina Response (Feb. 1, 2006)
  
  
  
• Comments from the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC on the proposed CDC revisions to quarantine regulations (Jan. 27, 2006)
  
  
• Comments from the New England Coalition for Law and Public Health on the proposed CDC revsions to quarantine regulations (Jan. 27, 2006)
  
  
• House of Lords, Ruling on Use of Evidence from Torture (Dec. 8, 2005)
  
  
• 9/11 Public Disclosure Project, Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations (Dec. 5, 2005)
  
  
• Important Proposed Changes to Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases (Nov. 30, 2005)
  
  
• CDC Adds Flu to Select Toxins List, Federal Register, (Oct. 20, 2005)
  
  
• Press Release, DHS, DHS Announces Briefing on Two New IT Support Initiatives (Aug. 9, 2005)
  
  

• Press Release, NRC, Energy Bill Provides for Enhanced Security at Commercial Nuclear Facilities (Aug. 8, 2005)

• Martin A. Weiss, Terrorist Financing: U.S. Agency Efforts and Inter-Agency Coordination,  CRS Rep. No. RL33020 (Aug. 3, 2005)

• Press Release, U.S. Hails United Nations Antiterrorist Resolution (Aug. 3, 2005)

• Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, OIG-05-26: Audit of Targeting Oceangoing Cargo Containers (Unclassified Summary) (July 2005).

• S.1389, USA PATRIOT Act Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (July 22, 2005)

• Press Release, United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, FDA, DHS and FBI Join States and Private Industry To Protect Nation's Food and Agriculture Supply From Agroterrorism (July 26, 2005)

• The London Attacks: Public Transportation Security: Hearing Before House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology (July 26, 2005) (statement of William W. Millar, President American Public Transportation Association).

• Press Release, United States Department of Defense,
  Detainee Transfer Announced (July 20, 2005)
  
  

• Dissenting Views to Accompany H.R. 3199, the "USA PATRIOT
  and Intelligence Reform Reauthorization Act of 2005" (July 2005)
  
  
• Defense Department Special Briefing on Military Commissions,
  Presenter: Legal Advisor for Military Commissions
  Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Hemingway  (July 19, 2005) 
  
  
• ACLU Calls House Attempt to Renew Patriot Act a "Rush
  Job," Urges Congress to Allow Time for Thorough Public
  Debate (July 19, 2005)
  
  
• Center for Constitutional Rights, Guantanamo Action Center 
  
  
• Human Rights Watch, Briefing Paper on U.S. Military
  Commissions (Revised July 2005)
  
  
• Press Release No. 728-05, United States Department of
  Defense, Military Commissions to Resume (July 18, 2005)
  
  
• Testimony of Secretary of Homeland Security Michael
  Chertoff Before the House Homeland Security Committee
  Regarding the Reorganization of the Department of
  Homeland Security (July 14, 2005)
  
  
• Press Release, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland
  Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Announces Six-Point
  Agenda for Department of Homeland Security (July 13, 2005)
  
  
• Press Release, H. Comm. on Homeland Security, Committee
  on Homeland Security Holds Four Hearings to Strengthen DHS
  Missions (July 12, 2005)
  
  
• H.R. 3199, USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention
  Reauthorization Act of 2005 (July 11, 2005) 
  
  
• Congressional And Administration Efforts To Enhance Public
  Transportation Security
  
  
• Defense Department Special Briefing on Administrative Review
  Boards for Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (July 8, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Report to the Ranking
  Minority Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security
  and Governmental Affairs, Information Security: Department
  of Homeland Security Needs to Fully Implement Its Security
  Program (June 2005)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Defense, Strategy for Homeland Defense
  and Civil Support (June 2005)
  
  
• Briefing Paper No. 94, CATO, The Security Pretext: An Examination
  of the Growth of Federal Police Agencies (June 29, 2005)
  
  
• Executive Order: Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass
  Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters (June 26, 2005) 
  
  
• Human Rights Watch & American Civil Liberties Union,
  Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material
  Witness Law since September 11 (June 2005) 
  
  
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project Transcript, The 9/11 Commission
  Report: The Unfinished Agenda, Session 1: CIA and FBI Reform
  (June 6, 2005)
  
  
• DHS ICE News Release, Man Arrested In Virginia For Concealing Ties
  To Militant Groups; Prior Bomb-Making Training In His Citizenship
  Application (Released June 6, 2005)
  
  
• Press Release, FBI Responds To Panel Discussion On The
  Recommendations Of The 9/11 Commission (Released June 6, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Testimony, Testimony of Acting Director Gregory
  T. Nojeim and National Security Policy Counsel Timothy H.
  Edgar At An Oversight Hearing on Sections 505 and 804
  of the USA PATRIOT Act (May 26, 2005)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing on Koran
  Mishandling Allegations (May 26, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Testimony, Statement of Valerie Caproni,
  General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Before
  the Senate Select Committee on Intellegence
  (May 24, 2005)
  
  
• USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Draft (May 13, 2005)
  
  
• REAL ID Act of 2005, as Division B of H.R. 1268 (2005)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Press Release,
  Machine Readable Passports Required For All Visa
  Waiver Program Travel as of June 26, 2005
  (released May 12, 2005)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, The
  Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Efforts to Hire, Train, and
  Retain Intelligence Analysts (May 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Director of National Intelligence:
  Statutory Authorities (released Apr. 11, 2005)
  
  
• Department of Justice, Office of Legislative Affairs, Letter
  to Rep. Dennis Hastert re: 2004 applications for and approvals
  of FISA warrants (released Apr. 11, 2005)
  
  
• Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border
  Protection, Press Release: New Rule Helps Identify Known or
  Suspected Terrorists Prior to Arrival in The U.S. (released
  April 7, 2005)
  
  
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York & Center for
  Human Rights and Global Justice, Torture by Proxy: International
  and Domestic Law Applicable to "Extraordinary Renditions"
  (New York: ABCNY & NYU School of Law, 2004)
  
  
• Memorandum of Understanding Between the Intelligence
  Community, Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, and the
  Department of Homeland Security Concerning Information
  Sharing (released Apr. 4, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Protection of Chemical and
  Water Infrastructure: Federal Requirements, Actions of Selected
  Facilities, and Remaining Challenges (released March 28, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The National Counterterrorism
  Center: Implementation Challenges and Issues for Congress
  (updated March 24, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, An Overview of the U.S. Public
  Health System in the Context of Emergency Preparedness
  (updated March 17, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: Secure
  Flight Development and Testing, But Risks Should Be Managed
  as System is Further Developed (released March, 2005)
  
  
• Navy Inspector General, Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, III,
  Executive Summary of Report on Department of Defense
  Interrogation Operations (realeased March, 2005)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Report
  to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT
  Act (released March 11, 2005)
  
  
• H.R. 841 of the 109th Congress
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security: Much Is
  Being Done to Protect Agriculture From a Terrorist Attack, But
  Important Challenges Remain (released March 8, 2005)
  
  
• Institute of Medicine Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program
  Program Implementation, The Smallpox Vaccination Program:
  Public Health in an Age of Terrorism (released March 3, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security: Agency Plans,
  Implementation, and Challenges Regarding the National Strategy
  for Homeland Security (released Feb. 14, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Al Qaeda: Profile and Threat
  Assessment (updated Feb. 10, 2005)
  
  
• National Security Council Counterterrorism Chief Richard Clarke,
  Jan. 25, 2001 Memo to National Security Adviser Rice Regarding
  the Al Qaeda Network (Feb. 10, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Al Qaeda: Statements and Evolving
  Ideology (Feb. 4, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Nuclear Power Plants: Vulnerability
  to Terrorist Attack (Feb. 4, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security: Management
  of First Responder Grant Programs Has Improved, But Important
  Challenges Remain (released Feb. 2, 2005)
  
   
• Congressional Research Service, Intelligence Issues for Congress
  (Feb. 1, 2005)
  
  
• American Bar Association, Letter to President Bush recommending
  bipartisan commission to investigate allegations of detainee abuse
  at Guantanamo (Feb. 1, 2005)
  
  
• Department of the Army, Classification of Former Chemical
  Warfare, Chemical and Biological Defense, and Nuclear, Biological,
  and Chemical Contamination Survivability Information (Feb. 1, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Continuity of Operations (COOP)
  in the Executive Branch: Issues in the 109th Congress (Jan. 31, 2005)
  
  
• Amnesty International, Guantanam Trusting the Executive,
  Prolonging the Injustice (Jan. 26, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The Department of Defense Rules
  for Military Commissions: Analysis of Procedural Rules and
  Comparison with Proposed Legislation and the Uniform Code of
  Military Justice (updated Jan. 18, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees"
  in the War on Terrorism (Jan. 13, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Mandatory Vaccinations: Precedent
  and Current Law  (updated Jan. 13, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Federal and State Isolation and
  Quarantine Authority (updated Jan. 13, 2005)
  
  
• The Century Foundation Working Group on Bioterrorism,
  Breathing Easier? (Jan. 13, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Terrorist Attacks and National
  Emergencies Declarations (updated Jan. 7, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Martial Law and National
  Emergency (updated Jan. 7, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Continuity of Government:
  Current Federal Arrangements and the Future (updated Jan. 7, 2005)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Gun Control and Terrorism:
  FBI Could Better Manage Firearm-Related Background
  Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records (Jan. 2005)
  
  
• Memorandum for James B. Comey, Deputy Attorney
  General, Re: Legal Standards Applicable Under 18 U.S.C. Secs.
  2340-2340A (Dec. 30, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
  Prevention Act of 2004: "Lone Wolf" Amendment to the Foreign
  Intelligence Surveillance Act (Dec. 29, 2004)
  
  
• Memorandum from White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to President George W. Bush, Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict in Afghanistan (Jan. 25, 2002)
  
  
• GAO, Homeland Security: Further Action Needed to Promote Successful Use of Special DHS Acquisition Authority (Dec. 2004)
  
  
• Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Conference Report (Dec. 7, 2004)
  
  
• FDA Issues Final Rule on the Establishment and Maintenance of Records to Enhance the Security of the U.S. Food Supply Under the Bioterrorism Act (Dec. 6, 2004)
  
  
• The CNA Corporation, Medical Surge Capacity and Capability: A Management System for Integrating Medical and Health Resources During Large Scale Emergencies (August 2004) (Prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Al Qaeda: Statements
  and Evolving Ideology (released Nov. 16, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Guarding America:
  Security Guards and U.S. Critical Infrastructure
  Protection (released Nov. 12, 2004)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Emerging Infectious
  Diseases: Review of State and Federal Disease Surveillance
  Efforts (released Nov. 1, 2004)
  
  
• House Select Committe on Homeland Security (Democratic
  Staff), Bioterrorism: America Still Unprepared (released
  Oct. 25, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Homeland Security:
  Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles (released
  Oct. 22, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Government Activities
  to Protect the Electric Grid (released Oct. 20, 2004)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security:
  Effective Regional Coordination Can Enhance Emergency
  Preparedness (released Oct. 18, 2004)
  
  
• Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy,
  Practice, and Science, Taking the Measure of
  Countermeasures: Leaders' Views on the Nation's
  Capacity to Develop Biodefense Countermeasures
  (released Oct. 12, 2004)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Drinking Water:
  Experts' Views on How Federal Funding Can Best Be
  Spent to Improve Security (released Oct. 7, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
  General, The Internal Effects of the Federal Bureau
  Investigation's Reprioritization (released Oct. 4, 2005)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Critical Infrastructure
  and Key Assets: Definition and Identification (released
  Oct. 1, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector
  General, DHS Challenges in Consolidating Terrorism Watch
  List Information (released Oct. 1, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The Foreign Intelligence
  Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th
  Congress  (released Sept. 30, 2004)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Financial Market
  Preparedness: Improvements Made, But More Action
  Needed to Prepare for Wide-Scale Disasters
  (released Sept. 27, 2004)
  
  
• National Association of Secretaries of State, Election Security Planning
  (released Sept. 27, 2004)
  
  
• ANSER, Drafted to Fight Terror: US Public Health on the
  Front Lines of Biological Defense (released Sept. 24, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, State Election Laws:
  Overview of Statutes Regarding Emergency Election
  Postponement Within the State (released Sept. 22, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The Foreign Intelligence
  Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework
  and Recent Judicial Decisions (released Sept. 22, 2004)
  
  
• Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security:
  Observations on the National Strategies Related to Terrorism
  (released Sept. 22, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector
  General, Audit of Passenger and Baggage Screening Procedures
  at Domestic Airports (released Sept. 22, 2004)
  
  
• Defense Science Board, Preventing and Defending Against
  Covert Nuclear Attack (released Sept. 17, 2004)
  
  
  
• US House of Representatives, Committee on Government
  Reform (Minority Staff), Secrecy in the Bush Administration
  (released Sept. 14, 2004)
  
   
• Government Accountability Office, Preliminary Observations
  on Efforts to Improve Security at Nuclear Power Plants
  (released Sept. 14, 2004)
  
  
• US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General,
  Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of
  the USA Patriot Act (released Sept. 13, 2004)
  
  
• GAO Report, Agroterrorism: Threats and Preparedness
  (released Sept. 13, 2004)
  
  
• GAO Report, September 11: Health Effects in the Aftermath
  of the World Trade Center Attack (released Sept. 8, 2004)
  
  
• GAO Report, Homeland Security: Federal Leadership
  Needed to Facilitate Interoperable Communications
  Between First Responders (released Sept. 8, 2004)
  
  
• The White House, Executive Order: Strengthening the
  Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans
  (released 27 Aug. 2004)
  
  
• The White House, Executive Order: National Counter-
  terrorism Center (released Aug. 27, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, A Joint Committee on
  Intelligence: Proposals and Options From the 9/11 Commission
  and Others (updated Aug. 25, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Aviation Security-Related
  Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
  (released Aug. 24, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Defense, Trial Guide for Military Commissions
  (released Aug. 17, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Defense, Digital Photographs of Setting for
  Military Commissions (undated)
  
  
• Department of Energy, Office of the Inspector General: The
  Department's Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness
  (released Aug. 11, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, 9/11 Commission Recommendations:
  A Civil Liberties Oversight Board (released Aug. 9, 2004)
  
  
• Lawyers' Statement on Bush Administration's Torture Memos
  (released Aug. 4, 2004)
  
  
• An ACLU White Paper on Notable Findings and
  Recommendations in the Final Report of the National
  Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,
  Civil Liberties and the 9/11 Commission (released Aug. 3, 2004)
  
  
• Comptroller General of the United States, 9/11 Commission
  Report: Reorganization, Transformation, and Information
  Sharing (testimony before the Committee on Government
  Reform, House of Representatives) (released Aug. 3, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The Position of Director
  of National Intelligence: Issues for Congress (released
  July 29, 2004)
  
   
• Congressional Research Service: Proposals for Intelligence
  Reform 1949- 2004 (released July 29, 2004)
  
  
• Department of the Navy, Implementation of Combatant
  Status Review Tribunal Procedure Detained at Guantanamo
  Naval Base, Cuba (released July 29, 2004)
  
  
• The 9/11 Commission Report (released July 22, 2004)
  
  
• DOJ Report, The USA Patriot Act at Work (released July 13, 2004)
  (Attorney General cites examples of law enforcement successes
  enabled by the Patriot Act)
  
  
• GAO Report, Homeland Security: Communication Protocols and
  Risk Communication Principles Can Assist in Refining the Advisory
  System (released July 13, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Military Tribunals: Historical
  Patterns and Lessons (release July 9, 2004)
  
  
• Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff: Joint Doctrine
  for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (released July 8,
  2004)
  
• Senate Select Committe on Intelligence, Report on the U.S.
  Intelligence Community's Prewar Assessments on Iraq
  (released July 7, 2004)
  
  
• Legal Documents from U.S. Dep't of Justice and U.S. Dep't of Defense regarding detainee and enemy combatant interrogation techniques (released June 22, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Press Release: DOD Provides Details on Interrogation Process (released June 22, 2004) (providing details on Guantanamo Bay interrogation procedures and links to supporting DOD memoranda)
  
  
• 9-11 Commission, Staff Statement No. 17: Improvising a Homeland Defense (June 17, 2004) (citing governmental failures in handling the 9-11 hijackings)
  
  
• 9-11 Commission, Staff Statement No. 16: Outline of the 9-11 Plot (June 16, 2004)
  
  
• 9-11 Commission, Staff Statement No. 15: Overview of the Enemy (June 16, 2004) (providing a description of al Qaeda's history and evolution)
  
  
• FEMA Guide for Developing Contingency Plans and Continuity of
  Operations (COOP) Programs for Executive Branch Departments
  and Agencies (released June 15, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, Memorandum for Alberto Gonzales Counsel to the President Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogations Under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A (Aug. 1, 2002) (released by Washington Post on June 13, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, The USA Patriot Act: A Sketch
  (June 10, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, USA Patriot Act Sunset: Provisions
  That Expire on December 31, 2005 (June 10, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Sensitive Security Information and Transportation Security: Issues and Congressional Options (June 9, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Military Courts-Martial: An Overview (May 26, 2004)
  
  
• Pentagon Working Group Report, Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy, and Operational Considerations (March 6, 2003) (released June 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Gen. Accounting Office, Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls (June 4, 2004)
  
  
• Leitenberg et al., Biodefense Crossing the Line (June 2004)
  
  
• Cong. Research Service, Small-scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents: An Assessment Framework and Preliminary Comparisons (May 20, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Gen. Accounting Office, Overstay Tracking: A Key Component of Homeland Security and a Layered Defense (May 21, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Gen. Accounting Office, Nonproliferation: Further Improvements Needed in U.S. Efforts to Counter Threats from Man­Portable Air Defense Systems (May 13, 2004)
  
  
• The Council for Excellence in Gov't, We the People: Homeland Security from the Citizen's Perspective (May 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Final Administrative Review Procedures for Enemy Combatants in the Control of the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (released May 18, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security, Beyond Anthrax: Confronting the Future Biological Weapons Threat (May 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Army, Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (Declassified May 2004) (examining Iraqi prisoner abuse)
  
  
• U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security, An Analysis of First Responder Grant Funding (April 27, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, A Review of the Bureau of Prisons' Selection of Muslim Religious Services Providers (April 2004)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Emerging Infectious Diseases: Asian SARS Outbreak Challenged International and National Responses (April 28, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Nuclear Security: DOE Needs to Resolve Significant Issues Before It Fully Meets the New Design Basis Threat (April 27, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Continuity of Operations, Improved Planning Needed to Ensure Delivery of Essential Services (April 22, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security, Summary of H.R. 3266 - The Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act (April 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, An Overview of the U.S. Public Health System in the Context of Bioterrorism (Updated February 11, 2004)
  
  
• August 6, 2001 President's Daily Briefing Memo (Declassified & Released April 10, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Terrorist "Dirty Bombs":
  A Brief Primer (Updated April 1, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Continuity of Operations: Improved Planning Needed to Ensure Delivery of Essential Government Services (Released March 30, 2004)
  
  
• Center for Strategic and International Studies & U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Anthrax Attacks: Implications for U.S. Bioterrorism Preparedness (April 2002) (Released in redacted form March 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Radiological Dispersal Devices: Select Issues in Consequence Management (March 10, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security - Office of the Inspector General, An Audit of Distributing and Spending "First Responder" Grant Funds (March 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Draft Administrative Review Procedures for Enemy Combatants in the Custody of the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba (March 2, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security, National Incident Management System (March 1, 2004)
  
  
• Frederic L. Kirgis, United States Charges and Proceedings Against Two Guantanamo Detainees for Conspiracy to Commit Crimes Associated with Armed Conflict, ASIL Insights (March 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, "Sensitive but Unclassified" and Other Federal Security Controls on Scientific and Technical Information: History and Current Controversy (February 20, 2004)
  
  
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Domestic WMD Incident Management: Legal Deskbook (February 2004)
  
  
• General Accounting Office, HHS Biopreparedness Programs: States Reported Progress but Fell Short of Program Goals for 2002 (released February 11, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and Transportation Security: Background and Controversies (February 5, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Military Commission Order No. 3 (altering measures that allow the government to monitor attorney-client communications) (February 5, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Military Commission Instruction No. 5, Annex B (Affidavit and Agreement by Civilian Defense Counsel) (February 5, 2004)
  
  
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-9 (Defense of United States Agriculture and Food) (February 3, 2004)
  
  
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications (January 2004)
  
  
• Democratic Members of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, ABiodefense Failure: The National Smallpox Vaccination Program One Year Later (January 29, 2004)
  
  
• Elin Gursky, Progress and Peril: Bioterrorism Preparedness Dollars and Public Health (January 29, 2004)
  
  
• Staff Statements From the Seventh Public Hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (The 9-11 Commission) (January 26-27, 2004)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (January 27, 2004)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, USA PATRIOT Act Sunset: Provisions that Expire on December 31, 2005 (January 2, 2004)
  
  
• The United States Conference of Mayors, Tracking Federal Homeland Security Funds Sent to the 50 State Governments (January 2004)
  
  
• Rand Corporation, The Food and Drug Administration Confronts Homeland and National Security (January 2004)
  
  
• Institute of Medicine, Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures: Addressing Problems in the DOD Program to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents (January 2004) (suggesting that Congress should create a new DOD agency to develop vaccines and drugs against biowarfare agents)
  
  
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Best Management Practices: Homeland Security Case Studies Focusing on College Campuses (December 2003)
  
  
• Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army War College, Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (December 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Efforts to Improve the Sharing of Intelligence and Other Information - Redacted and Unclassified (December 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Defense, Military Commission Instruction No. 9 (Review of Military Commission Proceedings) (December 26, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, Supplemental Report on September 11 Detainees' Allegations of Abuse at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York (December 2003)
  
  
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-8 (National Preparedness) (December 17, 2003)
  
  
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-7 (Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection) (December 17, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Dep't of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, Review of the Critical Incident Response Plans of the United States Attorneys' Offices (December 2003)
  
  
• Trust for America's Health, Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorism (December 2003)
  
  
• Federal Computer Security Report Card (December 9, 2003)
  
  
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Criminal Terrorism Enforcement Since the 9/11/01 Attacks (December 8, 2003)
  
  
• Markle Foundation, Creating a Trusted Network for Homeland Security (December 2003)
  
  
• Lord Johan Steyn, Guantanamo Bay: The Legal Black Hole (November 25, 2003) (Lord Steyn is a judge on England's highest court of appeal)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Terrorist Financing: U.S. Agencies Should More Systematically Assess the Use of Alternative Financing Mechanisms (November 14, 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Continuity of Government: Current Federal Arrangements and the Future (November 7, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office Testimony, Homeland Security: Challenges in Achieving Interoperable Communications for First Responders (November 6, 2003)
  
  
• Central Intelligence Agency, The Darker Bioweapons Future (Unclassified) (November 3, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Bioterrorism: Public Health Response to Anthrax Incidents of 2001 (October 15, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Initial National Response Plan (September 30, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Combating Money Laundering: Opportunities Exist to Improve the National Strategy (September 26, 2003)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office, Catastrophe Insurance Risks: Status of Efforts to Securitize Natural Catastrophe and Terrorism Risk (September 24, 2003)
  
  
• Office of Management and Budget, 2003 Report to Congress on Combating Terrorism (September 18, 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees" in the War on Terrorism (September 17, 2003)
  
  
• Memorandum of Understanding on the Integration and Use of Screening Information to Protect Against Terrorism (September 16, 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Budget Office, An Analysis of the U.S. Military's Ability to Sustain an Occupation of Iraq (September 3, 2003)
  
  
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 2003 Membership (September 3, 2003)
  
  
• General Accounting Office, Homeland Security: Efforts to Improve Information Sharing Need to Be Strengthened (August 27, 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Emergency Preparedness and Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) Planning in the Federal Judiciary (August 8, 2003)
  
  
• General Accounting Office, Hospital Preparedness: Most Urban Hospitals Have Emergency Plans but Lack Certain Capacities for Bioterrorism Response (August 6, 2003)
  
  
• Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 - By the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (December 2002-Declassified July 2003)
  
  
• Abridged Findings and Conclusions from the Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 - By the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (December 2002-Declassified July 2003)
  
  
• First Interim Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (July 8, 2003)
  
  
• American Civil Liberties Union, Independence Day 2003: Main Street America Fights the Federal Government's Insatiable Appetite for New Powers in the Post 9/11 Era (July 3, 2003)
  
  
• Partnership for Public Service Report, Homeland Insecurity: Building the Expertise to Defend America from Bioterrorism (July 2003)
  
  
• Progressive Policy Institute Report, America at Risk: A Homeland Security Report Card (July 23, 2003)
  
  
• Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force Report, Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared (July 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT):
  Overview and Application to Interrogation Techniques (released June 16, 2004)
  
  
• Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 31 CFR Part 594: Global Sanctions Regulations (June 6, 2003)
  
  
• Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft to the House Committee on the Judiciary (June 5, 2003)
  
  
• Department of Justice, Inspector General's Report on September 11 related detentions (June 2, 2003)
  
  
• GAO Report, Homeland Security Needs to Improve Entry Exit System Expenditure Planning (June 2003)
  
  
• House Judiciary Committee, Answers from the Justice Department regarding the USA PATRIOT Act and the war on terrorism (May 20, 2003)
  
  
• Continuity of Government Commission, Preserving Our Institutions: The Continuity of Congress (May 2003)
  
  
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Report on Intelligence Authorization (May 8, 2003)
  
  
• Department of the Treasury: Fact Sheet on the Final Regulations Implementing Customer Identity Verification Requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act (April 30, 2003)
  
  
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Treasury; SEC: Joint Final Rule on Customer Identification Programs for Broker-Dealers (April 30, 2003)
  
  
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Treasury; SEC: Joint Final Rule on Customer Identification Programs for Mutual Funds (April 30, 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Continuity of Operations in the Executive Branch: Background and Issues for Congress (April 21, 2003)
  
  
• The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Treasury; Office of the Comptroller, Treasury; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; FDIC; Office of Thrift Supervision, Treasury; National Credit Union Administration: Joint Final Rule on Customer Identification Programs for Banks, Saving Associations, Credit Unions and Certain Non-Federally Regulated Banks. (April 20, 2003)
  
  
• Information Technology: Terrorist Watch Lists Should Be Consolidated to Promote Better Integration and Sharing, GAO Report.
  (April 15, 2003)
  
  
• Bioterrorism: Preparedness Varied across State and Local Jurisdictions , GAO Report.
  (April 2003)
  
  
• Testimony of Richard M. Stana, Director Homeland Security and Justice Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives: Challenges to Implementing the Immigration Interior Enforcement Strategy.
  (April 10, 2003)
  
  
• House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness and Response, Hearing on Project BioShield.
  (March 27, 2003)
  
  
• Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights Report: Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U.S. Law & Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties (March 2003)
  
  
• U.S. Treasury Department Announces New Executive Office for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (March 3, 2003)
  
  
• ABA Draft Checklist for State and Local Government Attorneys to Prepare for Possible Disasters (March, 2003)
  
  
• HR 1029, Proposed Detention of Enemy Combatants Act (February 27, 2003)
  
  
• PL 108-7, Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 (February 20, 2003)
  
  
• Executive Order 13224: Blocking Terrorist Property and a Summary of the Terrorist Sanctions Regulations and Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanction Regulations (February, 2003)
  
  
• The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets
  (February 2003)
  
  
• The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (February 2003)
  
  
• The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
  (February 2003)
  
  
• Report: FBI Oversight in the 107th Congress by the Senate Judiciary Committee: FISA Implementation Failures (February 2003)
  
  
• Military Commission Instructions (February 2003)
  
  
• Secretary Colin Powell's Remarks to the United Nations Security Council and Accompanying Slide Presentations and Video Clips (February 5, 2003)
  
  
• Fire Chief's Guide to Smallpox Vaccination, International Association of Fire Chiefs, January 2003 (January 2003)
  
  
• Senate Appropriations, Labor, HHS and Education Subcommittee Smallpox Vaccination Plan Testimony (January 2003)
  
  
• Congressional Research Service, Congressional Continuity of Operations (COOP): An Overview of Concepts and Challenges (January 14, 2003)
  
  
• GAO Report: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Better Management Oversight and Internal Controls Needed to Ensure Accuracy of Terrorism-Related Statistics (January 2003)
  
  
• Text of Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 (Patriot Act II) (January 9, 2003)
  
  
• Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness by FEMA (January 2003)
  
  
• Report to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve System and the Security and Exchange Commission on the USA Patriot Act (December 2002)
  
  
• Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (December 2002)
  
  
• Republican recommendations for first 100 days of Department of Homeland Security (December 2002)
  
  
• Homeland Security Bill of 2002
  
  
• America Still Unprepared - America Still in Danger (Council on Foreign Relations) (October 2002)
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency Homeland Security Strategic Plan (October 2, 2002)
  
  
• White House National Security Strategy
  
  
• U.S. Vulnerable to Agricultural Bioterrorism - National Academy of Sciences Report (September 19, 2002)
  
  
• Report to Senate Intelligence Committee on Pre-September 11 Intelligence (September 18, 2002)
  
  
• White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (September 18, 2002)
  
  
• Mass Transit and Terrorism - GAO Report (September 18, 2002)
  
  
• A Decade of Deception and Defiance - Iraq's Defiance of the U.N. - White House Report (September 12, 2002)
  
  
• ABA Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants   (August 8, 2002)
  
  
• White House Homeland Security Plan   (July 16, 2002)
  
  
• U.S. Department of Justice, Survey of the Law of Expatriation (June 12, 2002)
  
  
• Maryland Catastrophic Health Emergencies Act
  (March 2002)
  
  
• Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
  (December 21, 2001)