September 18, 2011
A joint project between Truthout.org and ACLU
Ten years after the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, the fundamental
promises of American democracy are hanging by a thin thread. Promoted by a culture of war
and fear, the US government has steadily chipped away at those legal protections that
enabled 'we the people' to rule ourselves.
"Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the Homeland" charts the course of this shift, exposing the
rapid advent of a technologically advanced surveillance state in the shadows of the Twin
Towers. Read the blog.
Surveillance
From fusion centers to license plate sharing technology, the expansion of surveillance methods has been a hallmark of the past ten years. Investigative journalists and privacy advocates consider just how far the surveillance state has expanded and what it's actually done for our securityRead the surveillance blog
Immigration
Border security and 'homeland' security are integrally linked, both in the language used to justify their continuing growth and in the companies that profit off this growth. In this section, we look at private prison companies and their role in legislation, the introduction of biometric ID cards and how Islamophobia is used to fuel the war effort.Read the immigration blog
FOIA
Freedom of Information Act requests are the bread and butter of investigative reporting, and here we compile what years of tireless requests by the ACLU have shed light on - including warrantless wiretapping, database sharing and the targeting of dissidentsRead the FOIA blog
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