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Testimony of Caroline Fredrickson, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office, 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 (04/29/2008)

Joint letter to Department of Homeland Security on Inspector General report on the removal of Maher Arar to Syria (04/24/2008)
We write to urge you to release, immediately and in its entirety, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report OIG-08-18 entitled “The Removal of a Canadian Citizen to Syria.” The one page unclassified summary of the report released last month is uninformative and clearly an inadequate representation of the investigation results. Moreover, it fails to address any of the concerns we expressed previously to the Department regarding the legality of the procedures by which the U.S. government removed Maher Arar to Syria and general U.S. government practices for handling similar cases.

Statement of Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, Submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a Hearing Entitled, “National Security Letters: The Need for Greater Accountability and Oversight” (04/23/2008)

ACLU Section by Section of S. 2088, The National Security Letter Reform Act of 2007 (04/22/2008)

Testimony of Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, Before the House Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties At A Hearing on National Security Letters (04/15/2008)

ACLU Section by Section of H.R. 3189, The National Security Letters Reform Act of 2007 (04/15/2008)

Coalition Letter to Congress Urging Opposition to Real ID Implementation (04/14/2008)

ACLU Letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine Urging an Investigation into the Department of Defense's Use of National Security Letters (04/07/2008)

ACLU Interested Persons Memo on the Office of the Inspector General's Audit of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters (04/07/2008)