On March 19, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, announced a proposal to establish an Inspector General for the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Oversight of the nation's biggest police department will be critical in ensuring respect for the basic rights of thousands of the city's LGBT inhabitants.

Under the FISA Amendement Act, a law set to expire at the end of the year, the NSA can scoop up Americans’ communications without a warrant and with little oversight. Several senators have offered amendments that would impose modest limits on this sweeping power; these amendments deserve consideration and passage.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board held its long-awaited first public meeting on Halloween Day. 

This week's Guantanamo hearings were supposed to be a model of transparency and fairness. They were anything but.