War on Our Freedom, The: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism

(from the Foreword)

"Immediately after September 11, Americans were more than willing to accept encroachments on established liberties in order to prevent another successful terrorist attack.  But more than a year later, after the administration of President George W. Bush has implemented numerous policies that clearly infringe upon basic civil liberities, it is far from clear that the nation is much safer...there has been a disturbing absense of information and debate about the genuine and imagined trade-offs between liberty and security..."