News & Commentary
Jul 18, 2012
Civil rights groups sue U.S. for killing of Americans tied to al Qaeda
By Ted Metzger, with reporting from Joe Sutton
Two civil rights groups sued the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.
The operations killed radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, editor of a Jihadist online publication.
By ACLU of Southern California
Aug 03, 2011
The Constitution is not a State Secret
The Obama administration’s Justice Department took a swing at the rights of all Americans this week.
By Ahilan Arulanantham
May 09, 2011
Government Lies to Cover Up Secrets in Surveillance Case
The federal government’s use of secrecy and deception in the name of national security reached a new low last week, when Obama administration lawyers argued that they had the right to lie to a federal court in the name of national security by denying even the fact that they were keeping secret records about a group of Southern California residents. While the Court excoriated the government for lying, the Obama administration has defended its actions, raising fears that it will continue the practice in other cases. Read the Amended Order
By Ahilan Arulanantham
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