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Ralph Engelman; Carey Shenkman
A Century of Repression, 10/2022Book Chapter
The attacks of September 11, 2001, marked the beginning of a so-called War on Terror and opened a new frontier in the history of the Espionage Act. They prompted a major increase in intelligence and military operations together with what Jack Goldsmith, who served as legal counsel at the Pentagon and Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration, called a “gigantic expansion of the secrecy system.”¹ The USA PATRIOT Act, signed into law six weeks later, suggested that civil liberties might once again be curtailed during a new form of global warfare. The nation faced an open-ended conflict with
