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Video> ACLU Blasts Supreme Court Rejection of Challenge to Warrantless Spying Without Proof of Surveillance
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ACLU Appeals Decision Allowing Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission
ACLU Appeals Decision Allowing Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission “The judge’s decision to keep testimony about torture secret did not even mention the American public’s First Amendment right of access to the Guantánamo commissions, let alone apply the high standard that must be met before testimony is suppressed . . .“ February 22, […]
Groups Fault Boston Police For Surveillance
Groups Fault Boston Police For Surveillance By Monica Brady-Myerov October 18, 2012 90.9wbur Boston’s NPR Station BOSTON — The Boston chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Boston Police Department to stop monitoring peaceful demonstrations, interrogating activists and categorizing peaceful groups as extremists. After reviewing hundreds of public police records the ACLU and the National […]
Video> Al Jazeera> Attack of the Drones
Published on Jul 18, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish The US government’s growing reliance on aerial drones to pursue its war on al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Yemen, Afghanistan and elsewhere is proving controversial. As governments are increasingly relying on drones, what are the consequences for civil liberties and the future of war? Subscribe or “Follow” us on wammtoday.wordpress.com. For the TC […]
Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Action Alert> Lawsuit Challenges Targeted Killings of Three US Citizens
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court, Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. The suit sues senior CIA and military officials, and argues that the killings of three American citizens by their own government in drone strikes in Yemen last year violate the U.S. Constitution and […]
ACLU Liberty Watch> American Pie
The Preamble The Constitution and the Campaign Trail: A Weekly Update www.ACLULibertyWatch.org July 3, 2012 AMERICAN PIE While President Obama is picnicking at Camp David and Mitt Romney is busy competing in his family Olympiad, ACLU Liberty Watch is hard at work defending the Constitution. We’re sorry to report thatA an apple pie was pulled […]
ACLU> Protesting NATO: What to Know About the Secret Service and H.R. 347
H.R. 347 Protesting NATO: What to Know About the Secret Service and H.R. 347 By Gabe Rottman, Washington Legislative Office at 12:58pm ACLU The forthcoming summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, set for May 20 and 21 in Chicago, could be the first public test of H.R. 347, the recently passed law that expanded the […]
Glenn Greenwald> America’s drone sickness
America’s drone sickness BY GLENN GREENWALD April 19, 2012 Salon.com This headline and first paragraph from today’s Washington Post scoop by Greg Miller speaks volumes about so many things: General David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 18, 2011 (Credit: REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) There are many evils in the world, but extinguishing people’s lives with targeted, extra-judicial killings, when you […]
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