Tag: aclu (last 300)
Obama, Gates block torture photo release
(AP) Jameel Jaffer on Obama blocking torture photos: ‘It sets a bad precedent for the government to be suppressing information that relates to government misconduct.’
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(New Yorker) Party celebrating order to close Gitmo: ‘Why don’t you write down everything your interrogators have asked you?’ ‘I’ve been interrogated every day for 5 years. That’s like asking Charlie Sheen to write down all his wives!’
ACLU sues over privacy dragnet
(Wired) The FISA law signed last week lets Dubya order Gmail and AT&T (for example) to *forward to the gov’t* all your emails and calls if your buddy is overseas. The ACLU is suing over this shitbrick on the 4th Amendment.
Protests highlight immigrant jail deaths
(HuffPo·L) Amrit Singh, ACLU lawyer and Manmohan’s daughter: ‘The dogs used on detainees in the New Jersey [immigrant] detention facilities look very similar to the dogs used on detainees in Abu Ghraib and Iraq.’
Constitution inapplicable if Dubya says T-word
(AP) DOJ memo claimed 4th Amendment (no search w/o warrant) doesn’t apply to terrorism in U.S. Jameel Jaffer, dir, ACLU Nat’l Security Proj: ‘Each time one of these memos comes out, you have to come up with a more extreme way to characterize it.’ 4th Am.: [via]