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American Civil Liberties Union, National Security Archived Website

Scope and Contents

Website for the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. The project is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. The project is focused on topics such as detention, military commissions, torture, targeted killing, and secrecy. The website also includes links to legal documents.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued semiannually.

Custodial History

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/index.html and http://www.aclu.org/accountability were initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2009 as part of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2010, http://www.aclu.org/safefree/index.html redirected to http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free. In 2012, http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free redirected to https://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-and-free-0. In 2015, http://www.aclu.org/accountability redirected to https://www.aclu.org/feature/accountability-torture/.

In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website.

In 2015, https://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-and-free-0 redirected again to the current URL, https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/. In 2016, https://www.aclu.org/feature/accountability-torture/ redirected under the host for https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/. https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/ was added to the web archives in 2018. The accession number associated with this crawl is 2019.090.

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