Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil. (businessinsider.com)
Marcia Hofmann is now in private practice and was a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she worked on a broad range of civil liberties issues including computer security, electronic privacy, free expression, and copyright. (eff.org)
The issue of control orders, under which terror suspects are placed under «virtual house arrest», is the one of the most sensitive civil liberties issues for ministers as opposition to Labour's authoritarian counter-terror policy was seen as part of the glue that made the coalition possible. (theguardian.com)