Bill of Rights Defense Campaign

Current News

Feb 22, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, NYPD spying program aimed at Muslims

Feb 22, 2012, David Kravets, Wired, DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Warrantless Eavesdropping Challenge

Feb 21, 2012, Pamela McLoughlin, Middletown (CT) Press, Connecticut Muslim leaders seek documents on NYPD probe of Yale students

Feb 21, 2012, Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic, Who Do You Trust Less: The NSA or Anonymous?

Feb 21, 2012, Washington Post, Appeals court rules that families cannot sue in US courts over Guantanamo detainee suicides

Feb 21, 2012, Bill Ong Hing, Huffington Post, Lessons to Remember From Japanese Internment

Feb 21, 2012, T.J. Buonomo, TruthOut, Dark Knight: Former Vice President Cheney in the Global War on Terror

Feb 21, 2012, Sahar Aziz, Guardian (UK), Racial profiling by law enforcement is poisoning Muslim Americans' trust

Feb 20, 2012, Aurelia Fierros, Examiner.com, DHS: Cutting 287(g) to favor Secure Communities

Feb 19, 2012, Andrew Bacevich, AlterNet, The 3 Stages of the "War on Terror": From Shock and Awe to Assassinations

Feb 17, 2012, Susie Cagle, TruthOut, When Oakland Is Under Attack, What Do We Do?

Feb 17, 2012, Chad Cain, Daily Hampshire Gazette (MA), Northampton City Council lodges protest over defense act

Feb 17, 2012, Heidi Voight, WWLP 22 News, Northampton "opts out" of federal law

Feb 17, 2012, Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center, Seven and Counting. Two More Cities Reject NDAA

Feb 17, 2012, Michelle Dupler, Tri-City Herald, Report from Walla Walla's Whitman College criticizes Secure Communities program

Feb 17, 2012, Marcos Restrepo, Florida Independent , Homeland Security budget includes money for ‘nationwide deployment’ of Secure Communities

Feb 17, 2012, Lolita C. Baldo, Boston Globe, Experts urge stronger online regulation bill

Feb 16, 2012, Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service, Stop-and-Frisk Protesters Get April Trial Date

Feb 16, 2012, Arturo Venegas, Jr., Huffington Post, The Buck Stops Here: How the LA County Sheriff's Participation in Immigration Enforcement is Hurting Community Policing and Public Safety

Feb 16, 2012, Carl Mirra, Antiwar.com, The NDAA and the Militarization of America

Feb 16, 2012, Mary L. Dudziak, New York Times, This War Is Not Over Yet

Feb 15, 2012, Jameel Jaffer, ACLU, A Brewing Battle Over Warrantless Wiretapping

Feb 15, 2012, Kate Taylor, New York Times, Record Number of Street Stops Prompts a Protest

Feb 15, 2012, Al Kamen, Washington Post, Justice Department wins secrecy prize

Feb 15, 2012, Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review, George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago

Feb 14, 2012, Huffington Post, Alabama Immigration Law Could Cripple State's Economy, Protesters Rally On Valentine's Day

Feb 14, 2012, Noreen Malone, New York Magazine, New York Cops More Into Stop-and-Frisk Than Ever

Feb 14, 2012, Ben Jacobs, Daily Beast, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s War on Americans’ Civil Liberties

Feb 14, 2012, ComputerWorld, FBI says social media monitoring won't infringe privacy rights

Feb 14, 2012, Emily Odgers & Jeff Napolitano, Daily Hampshire Gazette (MA), Rise up to defend civil rights

Feb 13, 2012, Aviva Chomsky, Huffington Post, US Immigration's 'Culture of Cruelty' Stretches from AZ to Massachusetts

Feb 13, 2012, David Leopold, Huffington Post, Are the Courts Fed Up With America's Badly Broken Immigration Laws?

Feb 13, 2012, Brendan Sasso, The Hill, This Week in Tech: Senate set to tackle cybersecurity

Feb 13, 2012, Janet Murguía, Huffington Post, Civil Rights Groups Urge Automakers to Take a Stand Against HB 56

Feb 12, 2012, Nick Turse, TomDispatch, Tomgram: Nick Turse, Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan

Feb 12, 2012, Jim Hightower, AlterNet, How Team Obama, the GOP, and Tea Partiers Are All Intruding on Your Rights

Feb 12, 2012, Erik Hoffner, Common Dreams, Punishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What is the Justice System For?

Feb 10, 2012, Ben Fox, Associated Press, Suit challenges new Guantanamo prison mail rule

Feb 10, 2012, Carl Mirra, Foreign Policy In Focus, The NDAA and the Militarization of America

Feb 9, 2012, Joby Warrick, Washington Post, Ten years later, CIA ‘rendition’ program still divides N.C. town

Feb 9, 2012, Jeremy Herb, The Hill, Gitmo recidivism report splits lawmakers

Feb 9, 2012, Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch, Silent State: Washington’s Campaign Against Whistle-Blowers

Feb 9, 2012, Josh Smith, National Journal, Groups warn of privacy concerns in cybersecurity bills

Feb 9, 2012, Jeremy B. White, International Business Times, Senator Slams Obama for Withholding Information on Awlaki Killing

Feb 9, 2012, Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch, Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise

Feb 9, 2012, Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times, Senate Democrat challenges Obama on killing American terror suspects

Feb 8, 2012, Latin American Herald Tribune, Arizona Sheriff Seeks to Placate Feds on Civil Rights Abuses

Feb 8, 2012, Dina Temple-Raston, NPR, Case In Britain Echoes Dilemma At Guantanamo

Feb 8, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, The Grave Threat of “Homegrown Terrorism”

Feb 7, 2012, Morris Davis, Salon, Guantanamo’s deepening failure

Feb 7, 2012, Ahilan Arulanantham, Huffington Post, Four Years Frozen in ICE

Feb 7, 2012, Elise Foley, Huffington Post, Immigrant Advocates Skeptical On New DHS Public Advocate Position

Feb 7, 2012, Alexander Abdo, ACLU, 10 Years Later: Our First Step Toward Torture

Feb 7, 2012, Kevin Johnson, USA Today, FBI cuts back on GPS surveillance after Supreme Court ruling

Feb 7, 2012, Michele Waslin, AlterNet, Report: "Enforcement-Only" Immigration Strategy Still an Utter Disaster

Feb 7, 2012, Democracy Now!, FAA Spending Bill Enables Police Use of Domestic Surveillance Drones

Feb 7, 2012, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, Waging War in Secret Subverts Our Democracy

Feb 7, 2012, Stephen Said, TruthOut, Oakland, Non-Violence and the Future of Occupy

Feb 6, 2012, Noam Chomsky, TruthOut, Anniversaries From "Unhistory"

Feb 6, 2012, Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, The Torture Memos, 10 Years Later

Feb 6, 2012, Andrea Noble, Washington Times, Public surveillance from private property questioned

Feb 5, 2012, Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, McManus: Who reviews the U.S. 'kill list'?

Feb 4, 2012, Ralph Lopez, WarIsACrime.org, Agreeing to Disagree on Much, Occupiers and Tea Party Stand Together Against NDAA

Feb 3, 2012, Kiran Khalid, CNN, Iowa Muslim leader: Law enforcement betrayed us

Feb 3, 2012, Matt Apuzzo, Democracy Now!, NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Target Shiite Mosques

Feb 3, 2012, Maura Grunlund, Staten Island (NY) Advance, Muslims and their allies seethe over NYPD secret report, demand Kelly's resignation

Feb 2, 2012, Josh Gerstein, Politico, Holder: CIA interrogation probe nearing end

Feb 2, 2012, Joe Wolverton II, New American, Government Cites NDAA as Authority to Detain Gitmo Prisoner

Feb 2, 2012, Associated Press, US 'no-fly' list of suspected terrorists doubles in 12 months

Feb 2, 2012, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy

Feb 2, 2012, Associated Press, NYPD document exposes more domestic surveillance

Feb 2, 2012, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, The Obama Administration's Abject Failure on Transparency

Feb 1, 2012, Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, Torturer’s Apprentice

Feb 1, 2012, Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story, Washington lawmakers introduce bill condemning NDAA

Feb 1, 2012, Josh Levy, Save the Internet, A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ Controversy

Feb 1, 2012, Rose Aguilar, TruthOut, What Does the Activism Surrounding SOPA Reveal About the Future of Online Organizing?

Feb 1, 2012, Jacob Witte, Iowa State Daily, Obama no better than Bush concerning civil liberties

Feb 1, 2012, Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records

Feb 1, 2012, Nat Hentoff, Southern Standard, Too much government surveillance