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Memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Executive Privilege and NSA Wiretapping Subpoenas (10/01/2007)

Sign-On Letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid Insisting On Public Debate of FISA Legislation Before Passage (09/25/2007)

ACLU Material Support Statement for the Record for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (09/20/2007)

Statement of Barry Steinhardt on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Implications of Domestic Spy Satellites Before the House Committee on Homeland Security (09/06/2007)

Written Testimony of Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, Submitted to the House Judiciary Committee for a Hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (09/05/2007)

Coalition Sign-On Letter to Democratic Congressional Leaders Outlining Basic Privacy Principles Needed in the Wake of Changes to FISA (09/04/2007)

The Realities of DNI McConnell's Falsities (08/29/2007)
On Wednesday, August 22nd, Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, gave an interview to the El Paso Times in which he made several misleading claims about the recent alterations made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The “Protect America Act” (or, more aptly, the “Police America Act”) put sweeping new changes to FISA in place that essentially gutted the law. Below, the ACLU sets the record straight.

Talking Points on Telecom Immunity (08/29/2007)
The Telecommunications industry is lobbying for legislation that would give companies that illegally provided confidential consumer telephone content and call information to the National Security Agency complete amnesty for all their illegal behavior over the last five years. They seek immunity for their conduct even before it is fully disclosed to the public, and before their customers learn what was done with their personal information.

ACLU Analysis of the Protect America Act (08/29/2007)

How The Protect America Act Will Affect Business (08/29/2007)
On August 4, 2007 Congress changed the nature of the relationship American citizens have with their government. The Fourth Amendment was written to guarantee the right of the people “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures,” or put more simply, the right to be left alone absent probable cause and a warrant issued by a neutral magistrate. But now our government can seize the private international communications of all Americans and search them for “foreign intelligence information” without any suspicion that anyone has done anything wrong.