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Audio: ACLU Staff Remembers (09/11/2006)
The ACLU works to ensure that civil liberties are respected, even in times of national emergency. The following audio recordings are from ACLU staff and leaders talking about where they were on September 11, 2001, and also include commentaries about the state of civil liberties directly after the terrorist attacks and where, five years later, we are as a nation.

Samples of ACLU Advertising Since 9/11/2001 (09/11/2006)

The Road Not Taken (09/08/2006)

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)

Legal Documents and Resources - American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff (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)