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By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project

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  • Free Speech and Pluralism

How the NSA Got Away with Spying on American–Muslim Civil Rights Activists

An article published by The Intercept this week revealed that the government has conducted surveillance of several prominent American Muslims—including a former official in the Department of Homeland Security, a professor at Rutgers University, and the executive director of the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country.
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The Privacy Oversight Board Should Have Listened to Senator Obama

In 2008, Barack Obama, then a U.S. senator, realized that if an important surveillance law were to pass, Americans’ right to privacy in their international communications would be (in the later words of the Department of Justice) “significantly diminished, if not completely eliminated.”