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There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law in the name of national security. Learn more about ACLU's National Security Project (NSP), which advocates for national security policies that are consistent with the Constitution, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.


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ACLU letter to President of the EU's Article 29 Working Group (French) (04/16/2008)
Letter from the ACLU to the President of the European Union's Article 29 working group urging investigation of NSA spying.

ACLU letter to President of the EU's Article 29 Working Group (English) (04/16/2008)
Letter from the ACLU to the President of the European Union's Article 29 Working Group urging investigation of NSA spying.

Close Guantanamo - Activist Toolkit (12/11/2007)

The Excluded: Ideological Exclusion and the War on Ideas (10/25/2007)

History Repeated: The Dangers of Domestic Spying by Federal Law Enforcement (05/29/2007)

Disavowed: The Government's Unchecked Retaliation Against National Security Whistleblowers (05/14/2007)

No Real Threat: The Pentagon's Secret Database on Peaceful Protest (01/17/2007)

Belgian Government Report on SWIFT Program - English translation (09/28/2006)
Belgian Government Report on SWIFT Program - English translation

Dimming the Beacon of Freedom: U.S. Violations of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (06/20/2006)
A Shadow Report by the American Civil Liberties Union prepared for the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of The United States of America’s Second and Third Periodic Report to the Committee on Human Rights

Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture (05/19/2006)
Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture.

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad (04/27/2006)

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad - Executive Summary (04/27/2006)

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