American civil liberties are defined as civil rights designed for the purpose of limiting government intervention in the affairs of citizens (Civil Liberties 1). After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the United States government adopted new policies that did not universally coincide with the civil liberties guaranteed to Americans. Many of the new procedures adopted were unnecessary and forced average American citizens to live without the civil liberties they are assured they will enjoy. Still with the aim of infiltrating terrorist organizations, interrogation tactics became brutal and grotesque. Despite the criminal status of the victim, the fundamental rights that the law guarantees to these people are violated. The government has taken steps to try to improve national security, but many of these measures do not correspond to the civil liberties guaranteed to citizens. After 9/11, the government violated citizens' civil liberties by adopting unnecessary policies, treating civilians improperly, and using cruel interrogation tactics. After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, the United States government violated civil liberties by adopting unnecessary policies. New measures that have little or no effect on terrorism and national security are emerging and challenge the freedom of our society as they will undoubtedly persist beyond the post-9/11 terrorist crisis (Higgs 66 ). Citizens are having their rights revoked and it is very likely that these rights will never be returned to them. After the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, there was a clear sense of insecurity in the country and Americans were "leaning heavily to the side of security and putting certain concerns on the middle of paper...i.e. guaranteed to all in the Bill of Rights. Interrogation tactics have become so brutal and infringe on civil liberties without a second thought in order to facilitate the CIA's job of interrogating potential terrorists. After the World Trade Center attacks, the government violated citizens' civil liberties by adopting unnecessary policies, treating civilians improperly, and using cruel interrogation tactics. Civil liberties are guaranteed to American citizens in the Bill of Rights, and since terrorism became a threat, these rights have been left behind. Today, it becomes crucial that citizens regain the rights and freedoms that were promised to them. It's time for ordinary citizens to stand up for their rights and freedoms and speak out against the repression so-called free citizens face from the government..