Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.
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The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.Jameel Jaffer
More than two years after we filed our Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI continues to withhold documents that the public clearly has a right to see. As we've been saying from the outset, the public has a right to know what the government's policies were and who put them in place.
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The documents that have been released under the Freedom of Information Act make very clear that senior military officials and civilian leaders should be held accountable for what took place.
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We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and international law.
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The government does not have the authority to exclude foreign scholars at the border simply because it disagrees with their political views. To invest the government with that authority would be to invest it with sweeping power to manipulate and censor debate inside the United States.
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