I have many concerns with the way we discuss the balance between national security and civil liberties as if they were mutually exclusive objectives on opposite sides of the scale. I believe they mutually reinforce each other. What makes this nation strong is the relationship between the government and the governed. That which drives a wedge between the two weakens our nation.

Suzanne Spaulding

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For the Record is the newest publication of the Center on Law and Security. Each issue of For the Record will present facts and non-partisan analysis around a central issue related to national security. The publication will juxtapose and combine the questions of practitioners with those of policy makers and will be co-edited by Karen J. Greenberg, the Center’s Executive Director and Michael Sheehan, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center and Former Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism for the NYPD.

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