American Civil Liberties Union

There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security.


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Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad (04/27/2006)

Sketch Maps of Bagram (12/06/2005)

Human Rights Abuses Under the Material Witness Law Since Sept. 11, 2001 (06/27/2005)

Science Under Siege: "Overclassification" (06/20/2005)
An excerpt from the ACLU Report, Science Under Siege

The Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Record of Attorney General Nominee Alberto Gonzales (01/03/2005)
The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report on attorney general nominee and current White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales.

Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants After 9/11 Tore Families Apart and Shattered Communities (12/08/2004)

The Surveillance-Industrial Complex (08/09/2004)

Conduct Unbecoming: Pitfalls in the President's Military Commissions (03/04/2004)

Racial Profiling Since 9/11 report (02/26/2004)
Sanctioned Bias: Racial Profiling Since 9/11

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