Learning Objectives

1. Know the significance of the USA PATRIOT Act.

2. Explain the purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the process for obtaining a search warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

3. State how the PATRIOT Act regulates the use of pen registers and trap-and-trace devices, of roving wiretaps, and of searches of e-mail and of voice mail.

4. Know the significance of sneak-and-peek searches.

5. Recite the provisions of the PATRIOT Act regarding national security letters and the seizure of business records.

6. Know the function of material witness warrants.

7. State the difference between lawful combatants and enemy combatants.

8. Know the debate over the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist detainees and the significance of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005.

9. State the significance of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Know the difference between trials before military commissions

and trials before federal civilian courts and understand the debate over whether accused terrorists should be prosecuted before civilian courts or military commissions.

10. Know the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in Rasul v. Bush, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Boumediene v. Bush.