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POS 101-10 12/03/2007

• Course Status.
• Final research paper due, 555pm today via
  e-mail.
• Paper Assignment 3.
• Returned last Friday and Saturday.
• Connect Exercises.
• Final grading on December 17th, 6pm.
• Final exam review guide distributed last week,
  archived on the course website.
• Research paper due via e-mail, 555pm December
  10.
• Class Agenda.
• International Human Rights Day.
• Crimes of War Command Responsibility.
• Presentations.
• Presidency, Congress, Courts and Security.

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Extra Credit Reminder.

• Extra credit - due via e-mail by final exam date.
• Write a 2-3 page essay applying concepts from
  reading or lecture to
• Analyzing a film or video released during this
  semester.
• Participation in a political event.
• Political biography (your own).
• Staggered Extra Credit Options
• C below, 5 points applied to midterm score.
• B 3 points.
• A 3 points.
• Experimental Youtube project.
• Example Political Science 101-10 Playlist at
  www.youtube.com/drerxn
• Extra credit assignment
• Acquire, or update, a youtube account, with your
  own unique American politics related playlist.
• Bonus Extra Credit.
• If video question used in Republican CNN/Youtube
  debate, up to an extra 10 points on Final Exam.

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Presidential Power and War

• Article I Power to Declare War.
• Congress has power to declare and fund war.
• No formal declaration of war since 1941.
• Resolutions passed in support of presidential
  action.
• Opportunity for oversight and debate.
• War Powers Resolution of 1973.
• 60 day limit w/o Congressional authorization.
• Ignored by presidents.
• unclear what war powers if any in hands of
  Congress (We The People, 529).
• Imperial Presidency?
• Article II Power.
• Expressed power. Commander and Chief.
• Inherent power. Extraordinary measures justified
  by inherent power to protect nation. Signing
  Statements.

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Presidential Power and War/Intelligence

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  (ODNI).
• McConnell.
• US Intelligence Community.
• Director of Central Intelligence.
• Hayden.
• Hayden memo.
• Department of Justice.
• Department of Justice National Security Division.

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Presidential Power and War
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Presidential Power and War
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Presidential Power and War
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• Video Case Congress, President and Security
  Apparatus.
• 1950s.
• Clip 1) AE Biography Channel 1996 J. Edgar
  Hoover Private and Confidential.
• Key Actors
• Senator Joseph McCarthy.
• FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
• Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
• House and Senate internal security committees,
  parallel to counter-terror and homeland
  security today.
• Media - Edward R. Murrow, investigative
  reporting.

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• Video Case Congress, President and Security
  Apparatus.
• Questions?
• Complexity of interaction between media, security
  apparatus, Legislative and Executive branches?
• Use of Congressional hearings as agenda setting
  function?
• Use of Congress by President and Security
  Apparatus to accomplish policy goals?
• Declassified archives.
• Army Signals Intelligence Service (predecessor to
  NSA).
• Venona Project. Decoding Soviet
  intelligence/espionage SIGINT.
• Analogous to current debates.
• Plamegate/CIA leak investigation.
• Iraq II/Rumsfeld.
• Iran upcoming.
• 9/11 and WMD in Iraq Intelligence Failures.

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• Eisenhower - Military Industrial Complex - 1961
  Farewell address.
• Speech text Eisenhower library.
• Discussion Question
• Why did Johnson use Eisenhower quote to begin
  Chapter 2.
• Why is Eisenhower worried about the
  military-industrial complex?
• Is Eisenhowers warning relevant for
  understanding US national and internal security
  policy on April 24th, 2006?

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

• CENTCOM. US Army.
• Iraqi Freedom Operations.
• Global Security.
• Difficulties of combined counterterror/counterinsu
  rgency operations.
• Coalition casualties.
• Iraq Body Count.
• CNN.
• CENTCOM.
• Civilian casualties.
• Estimates.
• Iraq Body Count.
• Complexity of conflict.
• Mixture of conventional war, insurgency, domestic
  and international transnational terrorism.

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Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)

• CENTCOM. US Army.
• Enduring Freedom Operations.
• Global Security.
• Difficulties of combined counterterror/counterinsu
  rgency operations.
• Coalition casualties.
• Iraq Coalition Casualties Enduring Freedom
  section.
• Civilian casualties.
• Estimates.
• Marc Herold, Prof. University of New Hampshire.
• Project on Defense Alternatives.
• Cooperation with Pakistan security apparatus.
• Tribal Areas.

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Note Arrows indicate pre-election upswings.
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Presidency and National Emergencies.

• Crisis and Expansion of Presidential Power.
• Executive Order.
• FDR 9066 Japanese Relocation Order.
• Executive authorization of activities
  (wiretapping).
• Wiretap data. US Courts.
• Congressional Coordination.
• Rapid passage of key pieces of legislation.
• Examples
• Patriot Act.
• Creation of Department of Homeland Security.

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Presidential Executive Order - FDR 9066
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Presidency and Internal Security - Federal
Wiretaps
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The Committee System

• Standing committees and their respective
  subcommittees
• Select committees
• Joint committees
• Conference committee

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The Organization of CongressOther Committees

• Select committee
• Temporary legislative committee set up to
  highlight or investigate a particular issue
• Joint committee
• Legislative committee with members from both
  chambers formed to study particular issues
• Conference committee
• Joint committee created to reach compromise on
  legislation passed by both chambers

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US Military and International Law

• International Criminal Court.
• Coalition for an ICC - Pro ICC NGO.
• Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse.
• US/Coalition forces cant be prosecuted by Iraqi
  Govnt (UN Security Council Resolution wording).
• England Guilty Plea rejected/plea bargain.
• Being tried under UCMJ.
• Rejection based on testimony of another guard
  that abuse was part of lawful interrogation
  tactics.
• US CCR tried to use German Courts to involve ICC.
• US HRW supports US joining ICC.

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Iraq Prisoner Abuse
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Iraq Prisoner Abuse.
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• Course Evaluation
• 800 - 830.
• SIR II Forms
• SIR Report Number upper right corner - 40214.
• Faculty and Course Evaluation Form.
• Course POS 101-10.
• Faculty Christian Erickson.

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• December 17th.
• Final exam, 600-830pm.
• Remember to bring at least one blue book.
• Final Connect Exercise grading on work submitted
  up until 555pm (right before class).