A new study concludes that unnecessary classification is detrimental to national security efforts and democratic decision making – and offers a proposal to curb abuse and needless secrecy.
Civil liberties groups today called on the New York City Police Department to hand over records related to the department’s domestic intelligence gathering operations.
Today, the Brennan Center for Justice and nine other human rights organizations urged an appeals court to overturn a decision allowing the government to keep information about its use of waterboarding secret.
The Al Falah Center brought suit yesterday against Bridgewater Township (NJ), seeking to compel the town to allow Al Falah to move forward with plans to renovate an existing building so it could be used as a mosque and community center.
In advance of Rep. Peter King’s hearings, the Brennan Center for Justice today released a report critiquing the way some law enforcement agencies seek to spot and deter "homegrown terrorists." Instead, the report urges an evidence based approach.
The Brennan Center, with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, submitted a FOIA request to the DOJ seeking information on the use of the "public safety exception" to Miranda v. Arizona.
