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 & 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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By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 4:07pm
Every year, the FBI sends about 50,000 "national security letters" (NSLs) to Internet service providers and others requesting information about their ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 1:28pm
Yesterday, we posted a troubling explanation from the FBI of why it doesn’t want you to know whether your phone and internet providers are cooperating in the ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 1:02pm
Often when the government tries to suppress information about surveillance, it cites national-security concerns. But not always. A few years after the Bush ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 10:49am
The circus-like atmosphere of the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, carried on yesterday in top form. Although the primary issue addressed – ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 8:57pm
It is difficult to divine the purpose of today's closed-door session and tomorrow's on-the-record hearing of the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. ... Read More
By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, National Security Project & Alexander Abdo, National Security Project at 1:18pm
Yesterday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the government to release 21 photographs depicting the abuse of detainees by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and ... Read More
