I just finished reading William Rehnquist's book All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties In Wartime.

This book was written in 1998. Rehnquist spends most of his time talking about Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the Civil War. He also spends some time talking about the shutdown of newspapers during WWI and Japanese internment in WWII. Gives an interesting historical perspective of civil liberties during wartime from someone who is deciding some of these issues today.

Rehnquist doesn't wholly agree with the idea of Inter arma silent leges, "In time of war the law are silent". However, he does conclude with, "The laws will thus not be silent in time of war, but they will speak with a somewhat different voice".

Kinda scared me with that last quote, considering he's the Chief Justice and all.

I'll leave you with a quote from Lincoln:

"Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself to go to pieces, lest that one be violated?"