Category Archive: National Security

Aug
03

The Constitution is not a State Secret

The Obama administration’s Justice Department took a swing at the rights of all Americans this week.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.aclu-sc.org/blog/2011/the-constitution-is-not-a-state-secret/

May
09

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.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.aclu-sc.org/blog/2011/government-lies-to-cover-up-secrets-in-surveillance-case/