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Timothy J. Healy
Director, Terrorist Screening Center
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statement Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
March 10, 2010
Good morning Chairman Lieberman, Ranking Member Collins, and members of the …

By Joanna Smith
OTTAWA–A civil liberties coalition report puts a human face on the hassles and horrors of travelling, with multiple anecdotes suggesting religious and racial profiling is a reality when crossing the border.
“There …

By Jim Bronskill
Ottawa — A civil liberties coalition says racial and religious profiling has become a fact of life at the Canada-U.S. border.
In a report released Wednesday, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group calls on …

PRESS RELEASE

London, January 20 2010
After more than five years of waiting, the American State Department has decided, in a document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lift the ban that prohibited …

By SPENCER ACKERMAN
Too close to racial profiling, says Michael German, a former FBI counterterrorism agent who’s now the civil liberties organization’s national-security legal counsel.
From a new statement:

“We should be focusing on evidence-based, targeted …

By Ron Atkey
There could not have been a starker contrast between the visions of our security intelligence agency and our national police force, described by Wesley Wark in The Globe and Mail last week (Post-9/11 …

HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
7:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Sheraton Centre Hotel – Civic Ballroom
123 Queen Street West – Toronto
Ontario Federation Of Labour
2009 Convention

Will the Real Canadian Please Stand Up!!!
How has 911 changed some Canadians’ …

British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
November 10, 2009 – For immediate release
BCCLA uncovers VPD purchase of untested crowd control weapon for  Olympics
Vancouver, B.C. – A senior member of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed to the BCCLA …

Posted 11/5/2009 6:15:00 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/5/09 – A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group tonight condemned an attack on Fort Hood military base in Texas that left at least 12 people dead.
In a …

By Janice Tibbetts
OTTAWA — Canada’s most senior judge cautioned Tuesday against going overboard in the fight against terrorism by putting too much emphasis on the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. at the expense of sacrificing …

By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica, and Peter Finn, Washington Post
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order …

By JOHN IBBITSON
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Barack Obama is trying to avoid a witch hunt of the previous administration, while still holding it accountable for authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists.
If something must be done, …

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Civil liberties groups are renewing calls for the Obama administration to change screening at border posts by limiting questions about Americans’ political beliefs …