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Article: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION RAISES OBJECTIONS OVER EXPANDED MILITARY, CIA DOMESTIC SPYING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 14, 2007
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The American Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release:
The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed serious concerns about the use of "National Security Letters" by the Department of Defense and the CIA to collect the financial records of American citizens and called on Congress to launch an immediate investigation.
The following may be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:
"This country has a long tradition of rejecting the use of the CIA and the Pentagon to spy on Americans, and rightfully so. Today's published report that the Pentagon and CIA have been relying on "National Security Letters" to collect the financial ...