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Safe and Free : USA PATRIOT Act : Legislative Documents

ACLU Letter to the United States House of Representatives Urging Support of Amendments Restoring Checks and Balances to USA PATRIOT Act Powers (06/15/2005)

ACLU Letter to Representative Coble Supplementing Timothy H. Edgar's April 19, 2005 Testimony on the USA PATRIOT Act (06/15/2005)

ACLU Memo to Interested Persons Offering a Section By Section Analysis of the SAFE ACT of 2005 (06/07/2005)

Testimony of Acting Director Gregory T. Nojeim and National Security Policy Counsel Timothy H. Edgar At An Oversight Hearing on Sections 505 and 804 of the USA PATRIOT Act (05/26/2005)

Coalition Letter to Senators Roberts and Rockefeller Opposing Administrative Subpoenas (05/23/2005)

ACLU Memo to Interested Persons Regarding Analysis of Senate Intelligence Committee Patriot Act Reauthorization Bill (05/18/2005)

ACLU Testimony on Material Support for Terrorism Laws: Section 805 of the Patriot Act and Section 6603 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security (05/10/2005)

Testimony of ACLU Associate Director and Chief Legislative Cousel, Gregory T. Nojeim, and National Security Policy Counsel, Timothy H. Edgar, At The Oversight Hearing on Sections 206 and 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT on April 28, 2005 (04/28/2005)

How Doe v. Ashcroft Struck Down A Provision Of The USA PATRIOT Act (04/27/2005)

Testimony of ACLU National Security Policy Counsel Timothy H. Edgar Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on the USA PATRIOT Act: Effect of Sections 203 (b) and (d) on Information Sharing (04/19/2005)

Testimony of Associate Director Gregory Nojeim and Legislative Council Timothy Edgar at the Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 Before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate (04/19/2005)

"Patriot Act II" Provisions in H.R. 10 (As Passed by House) (10/13/2004)

ACLU Statement Submitted by Timothy Edgar, Legislative Counsel, at a Citizen's Forum on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties After September 11, 2001 Before Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee (10/13/2004)

Testimony of Former Congressman Bob Barr Submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the USA Patriot Act, the Safe Act, and Related Matters (09/22/2004)

ACLU Testimony of Timothy H. Edgar, Legislative Counsel, at a Hearing on "9/11 Commission Recommendations: Counterterrorism Analysis and Collection-The Requirement for Imagination and Creativity" before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (08/04/2004)

ACLU Analysis of the 9-11 Commission's Recommendations for Intelligence Reform (07/30/2004)

Summary of ACLU Analysis of 9/11 Commission Recommendations on Intelligence Reform (07/30/2004)

ACLU Letter to Congress Urging Support of the Sanders-Paul Amendment or the "Freedom to Read" Amendment, Which Would Help Restore the Privacy and First Amendment Rights of Library and Bookstore Patrons (07/06/2004)

Letter sent to Senators Leahy, Kennedy, Corzine, Feingold and Durbin upon introduction of the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA) of 2004 (06/16/2004)

Revised ACLU Interested Person's Memo on the Security and Freedom Ensured (SAFE) Act of 2003 (S. 1709/H.R. 3352) Which Provides Safeguards to Key Provisions of the USA Patriot Act (06/16/2004)

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