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ACLU Section by Section of H.R. 3189, The National Security Letters Reform Act of 2007

Coalition Letter to Congress Urging Opposition to Real ID Implementation

ACLU Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Responding to Attorney General Mukasey's Stance on S. 2433, "State Secrets Protection Act"

ACLU Letter to the House Regarding Draft FISA Legislation, H.R. 3773

Representatives Dingell, Markey and Stupak Letter to House Colleagues on Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms

Updated ACLU One Pager on Senate Bill: The Worst of Both Worlds

Coalition Letter to the House Urging Members to Craft A Bill With Fourth Amendment Protections and No Telecom Immunity

Updated ACLU One Pager on Telecom Immunity

U.S. Terror List Now Exceeds 900,000 Names
WASHINGTON – With the size of U.S. terrorist watch lists growing to absurd proportions – now in excess of 900,000 names – the American Civil Liberties Union today unveiled a new “ACLU Watch List Counter” intended to make vivid just how bloated and dysfunctional those lists have become.

ACLU Letter Concerning Mukasey's Testimony Not to Comply with Contempt Citations
The American Civil Liberties Union is writing to express our concern about Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s recent testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he claimed the Department of Justice is not obliged to pursue a prosecution of criminal contempt against members of the Executive Branch who invoke executive privilege in refusing to provide testimony or documents to Congress. As you know, the House last week voted to approve contempt citations against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas regarding the firing of several United States attorneys.

ACLU Letter to the House Strongly Urging Members to Vote No on S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act

ACLU Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the State Secrets Privilege

Letter to the Members of the House from House Energy and Commerice Committee Urging Rejection of Telecom Immunity

Congressional Progressive Caucus Letter to the President Rejecting Telecom Immunity

ACLU Fact Sheet: Amendments to Senate FISA Bill Regarding Immunity for Telecommunications Companies that Facilitated Warrantless Wiretapping

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging No Votes On Any Bill That Would Authorize Warrantless Wiretapping or Grant Immunity to Telecoms

Coalition Letter to Senator Reid Regarding the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 and Telecom Immunity

Consumer Rights and Government Accountability Group Letter to the Senate Regarding the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 and Telecom Immunity

ACLU Letter to Congress Calling for Independent Prosecutor

ACLU Letter to Attorney General Mukasey Urging the Appointment of Outside Independent Prosecutor
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-partisan organization with over half a million members and 53 affiliates throughout the nation, we are writing in regard to your decision to launch a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes to be headed by Deputy U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut. While we acknowledge the significance of your decision to both launch the investigation and accept the recusal of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, we urge you to go further. To truly do justice and help restore America’s confidence in the impartiality of the Department of Justice, we urge you to appoint an outside independent prosecutor and to broaden the scope of the inquiry beyond the narrow issue of evidence destruction. It is time for a prosecutor to examine the complete picture of illegal activities by the government in its intelligence and homeland security operations since 9/11, which includes the use of illegal interrogation techniques such as “waterboarding” and others. Given its role in the development of illegal policies relating to torture and abuse, the Department of Justice is utterly conflicted and any decision it renders on prosecutions will necessarily be suspect. Moreover, any decision relating to the destruction of videotapes will necessarily beg the question of the underlying illegal activities.