ACLU Lens: Court Rules Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law Can Proceed
In a very significant development, yesterday a federal appeals court ruled that our lawsuit challenging warrantless wiretapping can proceed. The law that we’re challenging, the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008, is the most far-reaching surv...
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Tenth Anniversary of Worldwide War; A Time to Reassess Who We Are
While the country focuses on the upcoming tenth anniversary of 9/11, there is another tenth anniversary that is coming up next week that triggered sweeping changes around the world. Just a few days after 9/11, Congress passed the Authorization for U...
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The Legacy of 9/11: Endless War Without Oversight
Almost ten years after 9/11, in May of this year, a majority of the US House of Representatives voted to give President Obama — and all future presidents — more war authority than Congress gave to President Bush two days after the 9/11 atta...
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Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
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Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
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This Week in Civil Liberties (9/2/2011)
What major telecom company participated in warrantless wiretapping? Which former leader has no regrets about Bush Administration torture policies? What supposedly quick fix to public education deficiencies endangers the separation between church and st...
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Don’t Let Phone Companies Off the Hook: Demanding Accountability for Warrantless Wiretapping
As we near the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we can expect to see a number of retrospective pieces in print and broadcast offering commentary on changes to America in the decade since that shocking day. Some of the changes are obv...
Categories: Barbara Flynn Currie, Dr. Quentin Young, faa, fisa, James Montgomery, Michael Mukasey, Patriot Act, spying, Studs Terkel, telecom immunity, warrantless wiretapping Tags:
Don’t Let Phone Companies Off the Hook: Demanding Accountability for Warrantless Wiretapping
As we near the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we can expect to see a number of retrospective pieces in print and broadcast offering commentary on changes to America in the decade since that shocking day. Some of the changes are obv...
Categories: Barbara Flynn Currie, Dr. Quentin Young, faa, fisa, Michael Mukasey, Patriot Act, spying, Studs Terkel, warrantless wiretapping Tags: