Current News
May 21, 2012, Southtown Star, NATO security concerns postpone meeting on Crete detention center
May 21, 2012, Rev. Richard L. Killmer, Huffington Post, An Apology to Maher Arar -- Moving Beyond the Season of Fear
May 21, 2012, Samantha Abernethy, Chicagoist, Terror Suspects Claim 'Entrapment To The Highest Degree' By Undercover Cops
May 21, 2012, Azadeh Shahshahani, Huffington Post, HB 87 Negatively Impacts Georgia Economy and Reputation
May 18, 2012, Steve Horn, Antiwar.com, NATO Summit Protesters Faced Police Raid and Arrests in Chicago On Wednesday
May 18, 2012, Editorial, New York Times, A New Attack on the Constitution
May 18, 2012, Shahid Buttar, People's Blog for the Constitution, Congress cans the Constitution, as Chicago police abduct activists
May 18, 2012, Jose Luis Magaua, RT, Congress still okay with indefinite detention and torture of Americans
May 18, 2012, Ryan J. Reilly, TalkingPointsMemo.com, House Endorses NDAA’s Indefinite Detention
May 17, 2012, Rep. Adam Smith and Rep. Justin Amash, Politico, The case against ‘indefinite detention’
May 17, 2012, Hugh McQuaid, CT News Junkie, Racial Profiling Bill And Secure Communities Intersect
May 17, 2012, Elise Foley, Huffington Post, Prison Rape Elimination Act To Expand To Immigrant Detention Centers
May 17, 2012, Associated Press, Washington Post, NYPD announces training changes in stop-and-frisk policy amid allegations of racial profiling
May 17, 2012, Bob Van Voris and Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg, Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge (Update 2)
May 17, 2012, Julia Preston, New York Times, Despite Opposition, Immigration Agency to Expand Fingerprint Program
May 16, 2012, Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times, Immigration: ACLU alleges rights violations at detention centers
May 16, 2012, Jane Sutton, Chicago Tribune, Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify
May 16, 2012, Larry Neumeister, Huffington Post, Indefinite Detention Blocked: District Judge Rules On Controversial Provision Of NDAA
May 16, 2012, Shahid Buttar and Michael Maharrey, The Hill, NDAA detention provisions go too far
May 16, 2012, BBC News, US rendition 'torture' case heard
May 15, 2012, CBS Boston, Secure Communities Program Takes Effect In Massachusetts
May 14, 2012, Ashley Portero, International Business Times, NDAA Detention Powers Under Attack From Bipartisan House Alliance
May 14, 2012, Jesselyn Radack, Government Accountability Project, Unholy Partnerships Between Telecoms & Government Spy Agencies: Have We Learned Nothing?
May 14, 2012, Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, Privatized Torture
May 14, 2012, Lucas Guttentag, New Republic, Arizona’s Immigration Law Violates Civil Rights. Why Didn’t Anyone Mention That at the Supreme Court?
May 14, 2012, Huffington Post, Rep. Peter King On NYPD Muslim Surveillance: 'There Is No Profiling'
May 13, 2012, Jeremy Herb and Carlo Munoz, The Hill, Fight looms over detainee provisions
May 13, 2012, Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, Clarence Aaron was denied commutation, but Bush team wasn’t told all the facts
May 12, 2012, Al Baker, New York Times, New York Police Release Data Showing Rise in Number of Stops on Streets
May 12, 2012, Robert Crawford, Common Dreams, No Secret Why CIA is Now Romanticizing 'Harsh Interrogation' Techniques
May 11, 2012, Mathaba (Malaysia), Bush & Associates Found Guilty of Torture
May 11, 2012, Democracy Now!, The U.S. v. Joe Arpaio: Justice Department Sues Arizona Sheriff for Racial Profiling of Latinos
May 11, 2012, Doug Thompson, Capital Hill Blue, Government spying on Americans increased under Obama’s watch
May 10, 2012, Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman, Wired, U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
May 10, 2012, Marty Graham, Chicago Tribune, U.S. rights group seeks probe of border complaints
May 10, 2012, Kim Zetter, Wired, Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FBI Admits
May 10, 2012, Public Intelligence, What Does Your Fusion Center File Look Like?
May 9, 2012, Raha Wala, The Hill, Smith amendment helps address detainee question
May 9, 2012, Samar Warsi, Jurist, Stigma and Suspicion: NYPD Surveillance of Muslims
May 9, 2012, Jerry Seper, Washington Times, FBI chief urges restoration of searches without warrants
May 9, 2012, Alexander Abdo, ACLU, National Security Letters: A Little Less Secret?
May 9, 2012, Naomi Wolf, Guardian (UK), The spectacle of terror and its vested interests
May 9, 2012, Sean Gardiner, Wall Street Journal, Report Finds Stop-and-Frisk Focused on Black Youth
May 9, 2012, Ms. Smith, Network World, Counterintelligence Surveillance Swelled Another 10 Percent in 2011
May 8, 2012, Editorial, New York Times, Delaying Justice at Guantánamo
May 8, 2012, Maizatul Nazlina, The Star Online (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), US troops tortured me, ex-Iraqi detainee tells tribunal
May 8, 2012, Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy on You
May 8, 2012, Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter, NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations
May 8, 2012, Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle, Fresh effort to retain civil liberties in defense bill
May 8, 2012, Trevor Timm, Electronic Frontier Foundation, This Week in Transparency: Drones, Secret Surveillance, and Classifying the Wizard of Oz
May 7, 2012, David Cole, New York Review of Books, No Accountability for Torture
May 7, 2012, Anthony D. Romero, Huffington Post, The Shame of Guantánamo: A Close-Up View of Injustice
May 7, 2012, Christopher Keating and Daniela Altimari, Hartford (CT) Courant, Bill Strengthening Racial Profiling Ban Clears House
May 7, 2012, Dan Gillmor, Columbia Journalism Review, Meanwhile, in the land of the free…
May 6, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Surveillance State democracy
May 4, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, More federal judge abdication
May 3, 2012, Jared Serbu, Federal News Radio, DoD, DHS officials keep pressure on Congress for new cyber laws
May 3, 2012, Fox News, Court: Ex-Bush aide protected from torture lawsuit
May 2, 2012, Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, Wireless Carriers Who Aid Police Are Asked for Data
May 2, 2012, Donald J. Guter, Miami Herald, Gitmo trials ‘not the U.S. at its best’
May 2, 2012, Retired Maj. Gen. Walter L. Stewart Jr. , Pennlive.com, Torture isn't fair game, and it isn't effective method
May 2, 2012, Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut, Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life
May 2, 2012, Naomi Wolf, Straits Times, Naomi Wolf: Keyboard Cops
May 2, 2012, Lanny J. Davis, The Hill, Holder, Fast and Furious and the double standard
May 1, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The Jose Rodriguez lesson
May 1, 2012, Fox 31 (Denver, CO), Sikh group develops app to report airport profiling
May 1, 2012, Cristina Costantini, Huffington Post, U.S. Border Patrol Increases Use Of Unmanned Drones For Surveillance
May 1, 2012, Common Dreams, Oakland Police Used 'Overwhelming Military-Type Response' Against Occupiers: Report
May 1, 2012, John Carlos Frey, Huffington Post, Latino Community Remains Silent On Anastasio Hernandez Rojas
May 1, 2012, Stephen Lendman, Bay Area Indymedia, Police State Harshness