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...scandal in the state of Maryland, where last summer it was revealed that in 2005 and 2006 undercover members of the Maryland State Police had carried out surveillance of war protesters and death penalty opponents. Some of the intelligence gathered on the subjects, according to logs obtained by the ACLU last summer, may have found its way into databases shared with local, national and federal agencies through the state's fusion center. An investigation found the data collection represented a serious lapse in judgment, but the victims had little recourse, except public outrage...
...This is not change. This is definitely more of the same.' ACLU executive director ANTHONY D. ROMERO, accusing President Barack Obama of reneging on his campaign promises to make government more transparent...
...that the potential civil liberties threats posed by the cameras outweighed any potential benefits. “They are the local manifestation of the closing down of our privacy,” said Nancy Ryan, former president of the Mass. American Civil Liberties Union. Ryan was one of several ACLU associates who spoke at the meeting, which drew a crowd that filled the room and overflowed into the hallway. Other residents brought up the possibility that the cameras might have a detrimental effect on residents’ first amendment rights. Approximately 180 cameras have been installed in the Boston metropolitan...
...have to cut a deal--or lots of little deals--with the bad guys to flip those Taliban members who will renounce al-Qaeda from enemies to allies. That will mean empowering local warlords who don't truly report to Kabul and may not win any awards from the ACLU. But that's essentially what we've done over the past two years in Iraq, where the Bush Administration both temporarily increased American power and quietly downsized expectations so we were fighting a small number of jihadist terrorists rather than a large number of conservative tribesmen. Achieving solvency requires subtracting...
Herman is president of the ACLU...