Wednesday November 28, 2012
In 2003, the 9/11 Commission recommended that a system be established to safeguard civil liberties in response to the flurry of national security and counter-terrorism legislation. A decade later, the PCLOB held its first public meeting, which mostly served to show how far the board still is from being capable of carrying out its intended functions. Read More »
Tuesday November 06, 2012
This Election Day will decide the fate of four Arab American members of Congress who have weathered tough races this cycle. A fifth Arab American member, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), is running in a safe district and has not needed to campaign. Here are the latest updates on the races in which Arab American candidates are fighting close battles to represent their districts. Read More »
Monday October 22, 2012
Tonight, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will meet for the final debate of this election season to discuss foreign policy issues. Tonight’s debate, moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS, will take place in Boca Raton, Florida and will air at 9:00pm Eastern Time. The debate could make a key difference in a neck-and-neck race, as the national polls show both candidates in a statistical tie. Obama does maintain a slight swing-state edge, however, with a 16 point lead in the Electoral College. Here are some stories to watch for. Read More »
Monday October 15, 2012
The Obama administration took steps toward correcting this gaping hole in the WPEA yesterday with a policy directive extending protections to those who expose waste, fraud, or illegality in agencies that work on national security matters. Read More »
Thursday October 11, 2012
Tonight Vice-Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will meet for a debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. The debate will air at 9:00pm eastern time and will be moderated by ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Martha Raddatz. The debate comes as President Obama has seen a 5 point slide in his poll numbers over 7 days following a loss to Mitt Romney in the first debate, leaving Romney with a 1.5 point advantage in the latest RCP poll average. Here are some stories to watch for in tonight’s debate: Read More »
Thursday October 11, 2012
In a lengthy and scathing report, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded that the fusion centers “forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism.” Read More »
Wednesday October 03, 2012
Tonight Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama will face off for the first of three presidential debates. Tonight’s debate will take place at the University of Denver and will air at 9:00 PM EDT. The debate will be moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS Newshour and will focus on domestic policy. Here are some of the key stories to watch for in tonight’s debate. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
AAI is continuously tracking key congressional races across the country. One trend AAI is tracking closely is whether or not the electoral tide will turn against candidates who espouse hate speech and Islamophobia. With just over a month until the election, it appears as though many of Congress’s most notorious Islamophobes stand a good chance of losing their seats and that several challengers who have turned to bigoted rhetoric are unlikely to be elected. Read More »
Friday September 14, 2012
The good news: U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest dealt a severe blow to the practice of indefinite detention by deciding to make her injunction permanent. The bad news: the House has voted to reauthorize warrantless wiretapping for another five years. Read More »
Monday August 27, 2012
Conducted on August 15th and 16th, The American Divide: How We View Arabs and Muslims, surveyed American attitudes toward Arabs, Muslims and eleven other groups and religions. Among other things, the poll highlights a sharp generational and partisan divide with respect to views on Arabs and Muslims. Read More »
Tuesday August 21, 2012
The NYPD admitted in court Monday what many critics of its counterterrorism tactics have suspected: its extensive spying program has failed to produce a single lead or terrorism case in its six years of operation. Read More »
Monday August 20, 2012
It is a disturbing trend that the federal government possesses near limitless power to end litigation with the mere assertion that they were acting in secret in the interest of national security. It is especially troubling when cases involving the basic constitutional rights of American citizens have been violated. The state secrets privilege also has a well-documented history of abuse, as it is more often than not used to shield government agencies from embarrassment or revelations of gross misconduct. This is most likely the case with “Operation Flex.” Read More »
Thursday August 09, 2012
Earlier this week Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was pointedly asked whether he would condemn Michele Bachmann’s witch-hunt against Arab American and American Muslim public servants. Romney refused, saying “I’m not going to tell other people what things to talk about. Those are not things that are part of my campaign.” This refusal to show leadership is troubling, but was dismissed by many as simply the former governor attempting to avoid controversy. Read More »
Monday August 06, 2012
Over two years ago attorneys with the ACLU filed suit on behalf of 15 clients, including 4 U.S. military veterans who had been erroneously placed on the government’s “No Fly List.” Each of the 15 learned that they had been labeled as terrorist threats only when they were stopped from boarding planes. The lawsuit on their behalf argues that placing citizens on the No Fly List without providing them any opportunity to confront and rebut the decision or any evidence against them is unconstitutional. Since filing the suit, it has been a struggle for the case to even get its day in court. Read More »
Friday August 03, 2012
Bestselling author and investigative journalist Ronald Kessler is set to release a new edition of his book “Secrets of the FBI,” which promises new revelations about the rift between the FBI and the NYPD on the subject of counterterrorism. Anonymous sources from the FBI told Kessler that the FBI is vehemently opposed to the NYPD’s expansive spying program on Arab American and American Muslims in New York City and elsewhere. His sources from the FBI criticize the NYPD for both ineffectiveness and civil liberties violations. Read More »
Friday July 27, 2012
Michele Bachmann and her colleagues are finding themselves increasingly isolated within their own party in their McCarthyite witch-hunt to root out Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the federal government. Read More »
Wednesday July 25, 2012
This action is part of an unfortunate pattern by the Obama administration of continuing, and in some cases even escalating, the very same “War on Terror” policies he had promised to end. Read More »
Monday July 23, 2012
The ACLU of Arizona released obtained thousands of emails from the office of recalled Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce, related to the controversial Arizona immigration law SB-1070. While many, including the Department of Justice under President Obama, have tried to divorce issues of racial profiling from discussion of the bill’s merits and legality, Pearce’s emails reveal a deep-seated racial motivation for his authorship of Arizona’s immigration law. Read More »
Friday July 20, 2012
While the Muslim Brotherhood has been Gaffney’s boogeyman of choice recently, a bit of digging by ThinkProgress’s Matt Duss into CSC’s past campaigns and publications revealed that within the past 10 years Gaffney has leveled nearly verbatim charges of infiltration against an “Iran Lobby” and a “Wahhabi Lobby.” Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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