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Posts Tagged ‘government accountability’
Want to Know What the Government Knows About You?
Monday, November 16th, 2009ACLU Dislodges Torture Report
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009A lawsuit filed in 2003 by the ACLU has changed the conversation in Washington about government misconduct in interrogations of terrorism suspects.
Approaching A Crossroads
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009A lot of things around national security issues have happened very quickly in the last few weeks.
They have come as a wave of concern was growing about the direction the Obama administration was headed concerning practices left over from the Bush administration.
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Laptop Searches At The Border
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to try to learn more about searches of laptop computers and other devices carried by travelers crossing into the U.S.
A year ago CBP issued a policy that permits officials to search laptops and similar devices without suspicion of wrongdoing. The ACLU wants to know how the searches square with the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches, and other constitutional protections.
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