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PRESS RELEASES
ACLU California Affiliates Seek Information About Government Spying (12/21/05)
ACLU Demands NSA, CIA Records (12/20/05)
Documents Detail Spying on Activist Groups (12/20/05)
President's Spying Order Violates Law (12/15/05)
Peaceful Protests in Colorado Targeted (12/8/05)
Michigan Affirmative Action and Peace Groups 'Terrorists' (8/29/05)
FBI Targets Peaceful Protesters (8/2/05)
FBI Is Keeping Documents on ACLU (7/18/05)
Eco-Terrorism
Legislation Aims to End Dissent (6/6/05)
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
ACLU
Preliminary Injunction Reply
(pdf, 7/19/05)
Government Response to ACLU Lawsuit for Expedited FOIA (pdf, 7/18/05)
ACLU Complaint Seeking Expedited FOIA (pdf, 5/18/05)
FOIA Regarding JTTF
FOIA on Behalf of Organizations
OFFSITE RESOURCES
FBI Background on JTTFs
FBI Template Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Links about JTTFs
IN CONGRESS
Current Attorney General Guidelines
(off-site, 6/30/02)
Analysis of Changes to Attorney General Guidelines (6/6/02)
Your Privacy at Risk
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The Government Is Spying On Us
The federal government is spying on Americans. Documents requested
by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act expose wide-ranging investigations
into peaceful organizations by the FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
Now,
President Bush has acknowledged giving explicit and secret authorization
for warrantless electronic eavesdropping and physical searches by the National
Security Administration. The actions of the president, the FBI and the JTTFs are part of a broad pattern
of disregard for the rule of law in the name of national security.
The ACLU is calling
for a special counsel to determine
if oaths of office were broken or federal laws were violated. We have also
requested
records from the NSA and other agencies in our ongoing campaign
to reveal and limit unchecked government spying on Americans. Read more >>
Exposing and Preventing FBI
Spying
Responding to ACLU FOIA requests filed in 20
states on
behalf of more than 150 organizations and individuals, the government has released
documents that reveal FBI monitoring and infiltration by the FBI and local
law enforcement, targeting political, environmental, anti-war and faith-based
groups.
Our clients include
advocates for the environment, animal rights, labor, religion, Native American
rights, fair trade, grassroots politics, peace, social justice, nuclear disarmament,
human rights and civil liberties. When the FBI invades the privacy of political
and religious groups in the name of fighting terrorism, it abuses our trust
and threatens our freedom. The public deserves to know who is being investigated
and why.
Restoring Checks and Balances
President Bush's admissions underscore the urgent need to restore
checks and balances. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should appoint a special
counsel to investigate and prosecute any and all crimes committed by any member
of the executive branch in this warrantless electronic surveillance in the U.S.
The
White House push to reauthorize the Patriot Act failed because of similar bipartisan
concerns over government abuse of power. The Senate has now agreed to a
compromise that extends the Patriot Act for six months and commits to reexamining to ensure
that safeguards on our fundamental civil liberties are restored.
Congress should
also hold hearings to determine how presidential directives used or avoided
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was established in the 1970s
to prevent the Executive Branch from engaging in warrantless domestic surveillance.
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