Links

• Foundational U.S. Governance & Rule of Law
  • Bill of Rights (Bill of Rights Institute)
  • Church Committee Reports (1975–76)
  • Declaration of Independence (National Archives)
  • Executive Order 12333 – U.S. Intelligence Activities 
  • Executive Order 13526- Classified National Security Information
  • Federalist Papers (Library of Congress)
  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
  • Homeland Security Act of 2002
  • National Security Act of 1947
  • National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-7
  • Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) Reports
  • Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election
  • The Posse Comitatus Act
  • U.S. Constitution (National Archives)

  Military Law, Ethics & Unlawful Orders

  • Army Judge Advocate General’s School STP Library
  • DoD Law of War Manual
  • FM 27-10: The Law of Land Warfare
  • Harvard National Security Journal – Superior Orders Doctrine
  • Just Security – Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders Series
  • Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM)
  • Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
  • USMC Law of War & ROE Handbook

  Authoritarianism & Democratic Decline         

  • Brookings – Democracy Studies 
  • International IDEA – Global State of Democracy              
  • Freedom House – Freedom in the World
  • Madeleine Albright — Fascism: A Warning
  • OSCE Copenhagen Document (Democratic Commitments)
  • Timothy Snyder — On Tyranny
  • V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy Project)

  Domestic Security and “Internal Security”

  • ACLU – Surveillance, Technology & Civil Liberties
  • Brennan Center – National Security & Civil Liberties
  • DHS Intelligence & Analysis
  • FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG)
  • GAO Reports on DHS

  Tools & Primers

  • CIA World Factbook, 2020-2021
  • Congress’s Authority Over the Executive Branch
  • Congressional Oversight Manual
  • Congressional Research Service Home Page
  • Executive Orders: Legal Framework
  • Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports
  • Impeachment & Removal
  • Insurrection Act
  • National Emergency Powers
  • Separation of Powers – An Overview
  • The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework
  • War Powers Resolution

  Elections, Disinformation & Civic Resilience

  • Belfer Center – Defending Digital Democracy
  • CISA — Election Infrastructure Security
  • CISA — Rumor Control – NO LONGER ACTIVE – REMOVED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

  VIII. Supreme Court Cases on Executive Power

  • Ex parte Milligan (1866)
  • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
  • Little v. Barreme (1804)
  • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)