The Pledge
* Prohibit the use of "secret evidence" to classify and list individuals and organizations within the United States as global terrorists or global terrorist organizations; and
* Prohibit the use of secret evidence or evidence obtained by torture or coercion in military or civilian tribunals;
* Prohibit the detention of American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants," without proof of criminal activity, based solely on the President's say-so;
* Restore habeas corpus for alleged alien enemy combatants, i.e., non-citizens who have allegedly participated in active hostilities against the United States, in order to protect the innocent;
* Prohibit the National Security Agency from intercepting phone conversations or emails, or breaking and entering homes on the President's say-so, in violation of federal law;
* Empower the House of Representatives and the Senate collectively, to challenge in the Supreme Court the constitutionality of signing statements which indicate the President intends to disregard duly enacted provisions of bills signed into law, because he alone maintains they are "unconstitutional;"
* Prohibit the executive from invoking the state secrets privilege to deny justice to victims of constitutional violations perpetrated by government officers or agents; and,
* Establish legislative-executive committees in the House and Senate to adjudicate the withholding of information from Congress, based on executive privilege, which obstructs oversight and open government; and
* Prohibit the President from kidnapping, detaining, and torturing persons abroad, in collaboration with foreign governments;
* Amend the Espionage Act to permit journalists to report on classified national security matters without fear of prosecution.
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