A civil liberties group said it would not take money from two major U.S. foundations because it considers the requisite anti-terrorist language in their grant agreements an attack on free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union said it rejected money from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations because the anti-terror provisions could impede work done by the ACLU and other organizations.
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