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The Realities of DNI McConnell's Falsities
On Wednesday, August 22nd, Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, gave an interview to the El Paso Times in which he made several misleading claims about the recent alterations made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The “Protect America Act” (or, more aptly, the “Police America Act”) put sweeping new changes to FISA in place that essentially gutted the law. Below, the ACLU sets the record straight.

Talking Points on Telecom Immunity
The Telecommunications industry is lobbying for legislation that would give companies that illegally provided confidential consumer telephone content and call information to the National Security Agency complete amnesty for all their illegal behavior over the last five years. They seek immunity for their conduct even before it is fully disclosed to the public, and before their customers learn what was done with their personal information.

ACLU Letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Requesting A Meeting on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Letter Urging Congressional Leadership Not To Gut Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

ACLU Letter to Congressional Leadership Strongly Urging Its Resistance to FISA Changes

ACLU Letter Urging Opposition of the Nomination of John A. Rizzo to General Counsel of the CIA

ACLU Letter Urging Senate to Support Equal Immigration Protections for Same Sex Couples

ACLU Letter to House of Representatives Urging Members to Support Equal Immigration Protections for Same-Sex Couples

Testimony of Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at a Hearing on Warrantless Wiretapping

Survey on Civil Liberties and Driver's Licenses for the ACLU
A poll conducted by Washington firm Belden Russonello and Stewart asking American voters for their opinions on driver's licenses.

Coalition Letter to Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the Administration's May 1st Testimony on FISA

Testimony of ACLU of Vermont Executive Director Allen Gilbert on Real ID Before the Senate Judiciary Committee

ACLU Comments to the Department of Homeland Security Regarding Real ID Regulations

ACLU Statement to the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Regarding FISA "Modernization"

ACLU Letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Strongly Discouraging the "Modernization" of FISA

Testimony of ACLU Client and National Security Letter Recipient George Christian at a Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

Testimony of ACLU on Real ID Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

ACLU Roadmap of Justice Department Inspector General’s Review of the FBI’s Use of National Security Letters

12 Questions Congress Needs to Ask the Administration About the FBI's Abuse of National Security Letters

National Security Letters by the Numbers