Freedom to Hear and Know / Government Accountability

Civil Liberties Minute: Learning from WikiLeaks
So what's the lesson we should learn about WikiLeaks disclosing 91,000 pages of classified information about the Afghanistan War?

Civil Liberties Minute: Who Thinks You're a Terrorist?
I'm sorry to have to break this to you, but the government may think you're a terrorist.

Civil Liberties Minute: A Popular Vote
Here's a wild idea: How about presidential elections in America, where the candidate with the most votes for sure will win.

Civil Liberties Minute: Appeals Court
Due to a recent decision by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the state's Department of Corrections will have to come clean.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Close Guantanamo
In late January 2009, President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year. That year has come and gone.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: The FBI and Your Phone Records
An FBI agent who wants to surveil and inspect telephone records doesn't go to court to get a warrant and doesn't have probable cause or even reasonable suspicion to conduct the surveillance. The FBI agent doesn't get the telephone records, does he?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Senator Scott Brown
Here's the ACLU's take on the new senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Wikileaks.org
Can WikiLeaks.org survive? It's a website that publishes documents that someone, somewhere thinks should be made public, and then dares the government, any government, to try to shut it down.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Warning: Listener Discretion Advised
Warning: Listener discretion is advised. This commentary contains a description of graphic images.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: White House Logs
Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney adamantly shared at least one position, one policy. They both wanted to keep secret the documents that showed who had been at The White House. That policy is about to change.

National Security Letters
The Bush Administration’s use of National Security Letters continues to threaten the privacy of law-abiding people.

Bush Administration Torture Memos
The recently released Bush administration torture memos should not be swept under the rug.

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