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20 Mar 2024, 9:46 am
” Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project Hina Shamsi stated: For decades, rights groups have documented the secrecy and unfairness of the No Fly List program and its devastating consequences for people’s lives, yet the program has remained a black box. [read post]
25 Feb 2023, 2:14 pm
“Over last 20 years, the U.S. citizens that we’ve seen targeted for watchlisting are disproportionately Muslim and people of Arab or Middle Eastern and South Asian descent,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties (ACLU). [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 1:35 pm
The committee heard from five witnesses including Hina Shamsi, Director of the National Security Project at the ACLU; Radhya al-Mutawakel, Chairperson of the Mwatana for Human Rights in Yemen; Stephen Pomper, Chief of Policy at the International Crisis Group; Retired Air Force General and Chief of Staff John Jumper; and Nathan Sales, Former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterrorism at the State Department: You can subscribe… [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
The director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, suggests that the relocation must be extended to Nutrition and Education International staff who are also at risk as a result of revelations about the drone strike.B. [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
The director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, suggests that the relocation must be extended to Nutrition and Education International staff who are also at risk as a result of revelations about the drone strike.B. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 7:24 am
Not so fast, says Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 5:43 am
“While we hope that Congress will be serious about its constitutional oversight role, we believe the issues raised by the Comey memos are so vital that the public should have access to them without delay,” wrote Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project, in a blog post.Read more here. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, profiling of Muslims proliferated through poorly designed law enforcement and national security policies. [read post]
3 May 2016, 2:03 pm
Dratel Hina Shamsi, Director, National Security Project, ACLU Adam Shatz, Contributing Editor, London Review of Books Phil Hirschkorn, Senior Producer, PBS NewsHour Weekend [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 1:40 pm
The New York Times shares that “the military campaign by Nigeria and neighboring nations to combat the West African militant group Boko Haram has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence - sometimes even within their own security services,” according to American and Western officials. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 6:50 pm
For the Motion: Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law Against the Motion: Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU National Security Project President Has Constitutional Power to Target Americans from Intelligence Squared U.S. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 8:26 pm
Arguing against the motion were Noah Feldman, professor of law, Harvard Law School; and Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 2:28 pm
Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, welcomed the inquiry “in the hopes that global pressure will bring the U.S. back into line with international law requirements that strictly limit the use of lethal force. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 3:56 pm
As Hina Shamsi, ACLU National Security Project director stated in a statement we issued at the time, “Our nation’s civilian and military courts have historically recognized that the truth, no matter how ugly, is better aired than concealed from the public. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 7:17 am
I haven’t yet read the complaint, which just became available a few moments ago, but Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, says the following in an email: Our lawsuit, which is against senior CIA and military officials, charges that the killings of U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi in Yemen last year violated the Constitution’s guarantee against… [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 11:08 am
This morning, USA Today ran an op-ed by ACLU National Security Project director, Hina Shamsi about the U.S. government’s unlawful targeted killing program. [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:07 am
As Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project notes: “The most important terrorism trial of our time should not be an exception to the rule of public access because its legitimacy depends in part on its transparency. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 11:59 am
Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, added in the statement: We continue to believe, based on the information available, that the program itself is not just unlawful but dangerous…It is dangerous to give the President the authority to order the extrajudicial killing of any person – including any American – he believes to be a terrorist. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 4:55 pm
Also today, ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi went on Democracy Now to detail the many problems with the government’s explanation: Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 2:19 pm
In a statement that we issued in response to the news, Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project said, "This new report about the use of federal money to spy on Muslim communities with no suspicion of wrongdoing raises significant new questions about White House oversight of how its funds were used by the NYPD, for what purposes and whether those uses comply with the law. [read post]
