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FBI tries to block book by whistleblower

donal brown July 25, 2011

A flounder of a national whistleblowers group has sued the FBI for preventing her from publishing a book though she claims the book contains no classified information. Sibel D. Edmonds had worked for the FBI after 9/11 as a contractor rather than an employee and said that many of her reports about misconduct of co-workers were not fully investigated and that she was fired for her reports. -db From the Courthouse News Service, July 25,

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Test your 1st Amendment IQ for the 4th

FAC June 30, 2011

Only six percent of Americans know what the First Amendment says, according to a survey by The First Amendment Center.  Of course, you’re not one of the clueless 94 percent, a fact that is easily proved by taking the 20-question First Amendment Test put together by the First Amendment Center and USA Today: Test your First Amendment knowledge – USATODAY.com.

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ACLU finds schools censoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites

donal brown April 18, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union has discovered that schools in Michigan, Texas, Pennsylvania and Virginia are using filers to block students from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites. The ACLU has sent letters to the schools to unlock the sites. The press release outlines the rights of students and the reasons they should have access to the sites, “When used by a public school, programs that block all LGBT content violate First Amendment rights to

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Murfreesboro mosque backers, foes to address commission

FAC September 15, 2010

Opponents of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro’s planned mosque on Veals Road won’t monopolize public comments at Thursday’s Rutherford County Commission meeting. The Tennessean September 15, 2010 By Scott Broden “This time a majority of speakers are going to be in support of our First Amendment rights,” said Thomas Moss, a Murfreesboro resident who is one of 16 speakers scheduled to address the commission and is one of the members of the grass-roots group Middle

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Judge tosses out privacy claim against Michael Moore over ‘Sicko’ segment

FAC September 6, 2010

A federal magistrate judge in Tacoma has thrown out key claims in a lawsuit filed against controversial filmmaker Michael Moore and his Academy Award-nominated documentary “Sicko,” the first use of a state law that bars lawsuits targeting conduct associated with free speech and the First Amendment. Seattle Times September 6, 2010 By Mike Carter Related A federal magistrate judge in Tacoma has thrown out key claims in a lawsuit filed against controversial filmmaker Michael Moore

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