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Jameel Jaffer
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Jameel Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU's National Security Program. Currently, his docket includes Doe v. Gonzales, a challenge to the FBI's "national security letter" authority; ACLU v. NSA, a challenge to the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency; American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff, a challenge to the government's refusal to grant a visa to Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan; and ACLU v. Department of Defense, litigation under the Freedom of Information Act for records concerning the treatment and detention of prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Jaffer is a graduate of Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the staff of the ACLU, Mr. Jaffer served as law clerk to Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.

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Contempt

Posted January 24, 2008 | 03:45 PM (EST)

To the record of lawless activity undertaken by the CIA in connection with the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, media reports have recently added this entry: Despite repeated requests from the 9/11 Commission for information about the interrogation of prisoners, the CIA failed to turn over videotapes that...

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Chaos at Guantánamo

Posted June 5, 2007 | 04:29 PM (EST)

At the Guantánamo Bay military commissions, the only constant -- aside from the desperate prisoners -- is chaos. Attorneys come and go; rules are invalidated and reintroduced; one prison closes and another opens, but pandemonium is ever-present. Since their inception five years ago, the military commissions -- the first war...

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