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Government
Is Suppressing Information
About Patriot Act
Powers
The government is using gag orders and secret
evidence
to keep the public in the dark about its
use of the Patriot Act to investigate Americans, the
ACLU said today, and filed a motion to exclude
classified portions of a government affidavit that were
provided only to the court in a filing a
motion to exclude secret evidence. Read more | Government
Gag Exposed
Web Chat: Listen to ACLU
Executive Director Anthony Romero
Log
onto the Washington Post's web site at 2 p.m. where
Anthony Romero will discuss the Combined Federal
Campaign watch list policy, along with CFC coalition
member Barbara Brenner of Breast Cancer Action.
Go
to Washington Post
Chat
Diverse Coalition Opposes Restrictions on
Recipients of the Combined Federal
Campaign
Along with
15 organizations, the ACLU will counter the policies of
the CFC that require charities to check employees
against a “watch list” in order to receive
donations. Read
more | Coalition
Members | Join
the
Coalition
Court Orders Feds to End Stonewalling and
Process ACLU Request for Torture
Records
The
ACLU and NYCLU won a victory in a 10-month struggle to
obtain records on the abuse of prisoners held by the
U.S. at detention facilities. Read
more | ACLU's Freedom of
Information Act
filing
NYCLU
and CCR Sue City of New York to Secure Protest
Permit
The NYCLU and the Center
for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit to secure a
permit for a protest rally in Central Park on the eve of
the Republican National Convention. Read
more | Forums
ACLU Denounces FBI Tactics
Targeting
Protesters
The
ACLU denounced the FBI’s use of the Joint Terrorism Task
Force to monitor, interrogate and suppress anti-war and
other political protesters and called on individuals who
have been targeted for investigation to come forward.
Read
more | Department
of Justice's memo supporting surveillance of
protesters | Protecting
Protest | Forums | 
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