Describe the role of the FISA process and FISA courts, the legal challenges to FISA, and the role of National Security Letters as described by Corn et al in Chapter 7.

Describe
the role of the FISA process and FISA courts, the legal challenges to
FISA, and the role of National Security Letters as described by Corn et al
in Chapter 7. How do these institutions and procedures impact the
balance between security and civil liberties? Do they maintain that
balance or adversely affect it? How and why?
Describe
the history of detention and interrogation in and by the United States
and how this has changed post 9/11 as outlined in Chapter 8 of Corn et al. What sort of impact do the use of extreme interrogation techniques as well as non-Habeas Corpus detention have on the balance between the need for security and the need to safeguard civil liberties? How and why?

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