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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.
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.
ACLU Analysis of the Protect America Act (08/29/2007)
ACLU Letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Requesting A Meeting on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (08/13/2007)
ACLU Letter to Congressional Leadership Strongly Urging Its Resistance to FISA Changes (07/31/2007)
Letter Urging Congressional Leadership Not To Gut Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (07/31/2007)
ACLU Letter Urging Opposition of the Nomination of John A. Rizzo to General Counsel of the CIA (06/19/2007)
ACLU Letter Urging Senate to Support Equal Immigration Protections for Same Sex Couples (06/13/2007)
ACLU Letter to House of Representatives Urging Members to Support Equal Immigration Protections for Same-Sex Couples (06/11/2007)
Testimony of Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at a Hearing on Warrantless Wiretapping (06/07/2007)
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