It hasn’t made the evening news (distracted as they are with lipstick and plumbers and all that) but apparently the government has taken advantage of our distraction to do something that hasn’t been done since the Civil War. You see, the Posse Comitatus Act has prevented the American military from operating domestically. When troops are […]
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NEW YORK – After a trial filled with overwhelming constitutional and procedural flaws, a jury of military officers today found Salim Hamdan guilty of providing material support for terrorism. The American Civil Liberties Union has been at Guantánamo Bay observing the Hamdan proceedings, which lacked […]
Recent ACLU-compelled disclosures of previously concealed DOJ documents reveal many of the details of what has been long known: that the highest levels of the Bush administration secretly implemented an illegal torture regime. But while those torture programs began in secret, we have gradually learned more and more about them. The more time that goes […]
The ACLU, in partnership with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is assembling defense teams to be available to assist in the legal representation of some of the Guantanamo detainees the Bush administration seeks to prosecute in the military commissions system. Retired Army Colonel Mike Pheneger talks about why this effort is important to […]
Jameel Jaffer-Director of the ACLU National Security Project, Dinah PoKempner-General Counsel of Human Rights Watch, and journalist Chris Hedges speak of new joint lawsuit against FISA.
ACLU attorney Ben Wizner talks with “Rendition” director Gavin Hood
