By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project at 11:03am
In an email sent to potential supporters a few days before releasing his book on CIA torture, Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism ... Read More
The government’s surveillance of Americans in the name of national security remains overwhelmingly secret. Some of the secrecy is legitimate, but much of ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project at 4:03pm
On Monday, the latest installment in the defense of torture — Hard Measures, by Jose Rodriguez — will hit bookshelves. Rodriguez, the former head of ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project at 12:59pm
The government has just officially confirmed what we've long suspected: there are secret Justice Department opinions about the Patriot Act's Section 215, which ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Mitra Ebadolahi, National Security Project at 1:45pm
On Friday, the ACLU appeared before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to argue that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires the CIA to release ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project at 11:32am
Most of the attention on Attorney General Eric Holder's speech earlier this week has focused on his attempted justification of the government's policy on the ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 2:44pm
Our country’s embrace of torture after 9/11 may have seemed like a quick one: one day we didn’t torture, and the next we did, with the so-called ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project at 5:18pm
Two and a half years ago, the government released a damning report by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) relating to the “enhanced ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 12:23pm
Michele Bachmann announced on Saturday night that the ACLU is "running the CIA." Not true, of course, but it got us thinking: what if we did run the CIA?
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