In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, civil rights advocates called on Congress to investigate the reported changes to the FBI’s guidelines for domestic investigations.
After reports that FBI officials will receive "significant new powers" for domestic investigations, the Brennan Center analyzed the accuracy of several FBI and Justice Department statements on the changes, finding false or misleading information in all of them.
The Brennan Center's Emily Berman participated in an online video from the Bill of Rights Defense Committee titled, "The unPATRIOTic Act & COINTELPRO 2.0."
Commonly held assumptions about terrorism and stereotypes of terrorists are often incorrect. Instead of focusing resources on young, Muslim men, law enforcement must pay most attention to behavior indicating terrorist activity, such as travel patterns.
The Brennan Center for Justice and NYU School of Law hosted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on June 7th for a discussion on post-9/11 homeland security.
