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Legal Documents in the Challenge to Illegal NSA Spying (08/28/2006)

Audio: Response to the Federal Court Ruling the Bush Spy Program Illegal (08/18/2006)
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, ACLU staff attorney Melissa Goodman and journalist and client in ACLU v. NSA, respond to the federal court decision that declared the Bush spy program illegal.

Government's Unchecked Power to Censor Speech (08/14/2006)
In the ACLU's challenge to the NSL and gag imposed on Library Connection, Inc. -- a consortium of libraries in Connecticut who received an NSL demand for patron records from the FBI in July 2005 -- the NSL gag statute allowed the government to keep from the public a vast amount of innocuous, non-sensitive information by redacting that information in the legal papers filed in the case.

Ideological Exclusion - Timeline (07/24/2006)
A timeline of incidents of exclusions of prominent thinkers from the U.S. based on political or academic positions.

Witness: Khaled El-Masri - Victim of Extraordinary Rendition (07/14/2006)

Witness: Father Roy Bourgeois - Victim of FBI Spying (07/14/2006)

Witness: Jessica Gonzales - Victim of Police Negligence (07/14/2006)

Ideological Exclusion - Legal Background (07/12/2006)

ACLU in the Courts Since 9/11 - Past Cases (07/07/2006)

ACLU in the Courts Since 9/11 (07/07/2006)

Dimming the Beacon of Freedom U.S. Violations of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights - Executive Summary (06/20/2006)

Pentagon FOIA Lawsuit Client List (06/14/2006)

ACLU Hosts "The Road to Guantánamo" Screening (06/14/2006)
The ACLU hosted a special screening of the film in NYC on June 22, 2006 for an invited audience of leaders in politics, law, academia, media and entertainment – people who are in a position to spread the importance of this film and the issues behind it to community members across their respective fields, across the country.