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FISA: Fear-mongering and What We've Learned Since January (05/14/2008)

Coalition of Human Rights and Religious Groups Supporting the Army Field Manual Applying to the CIA (05/09/2008)
We are writing to express our strong opposition to the proposal to amend the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act to outlaw only eight techniques specifically prohibited in the U.S. Army Field Manual FM 2-22.3 on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. While the proposal is misleadingly presented as an effort to ban harsh interrogation techniques, its clear purpose is to authorize them. There should be no misunderstanding on this point: the proposal reverses Congress’s recent decision to end torture. It is not a “compromise.”

Coalition Memo to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Regarding "Homegrown Terrorism" (05/07/2008)

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)

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

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)