There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security.
ACLU v. Department of Defense - Complaint (04/17/2008) A lawsuit to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2006 requesting the release of all records relating to deaths, suicide attempts and homicide attempts at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay since 2002. This lawsuit follows a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents that include records relating to four specific detainee deaths from 2006 and 2007, which the government categorized as suicides.
