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28 Oct 2009, 12:01 pm
Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project, and counsel in the case, stated: “We are disappointed by the court’s decision to re-hear this case, but we hope and expect that the court’s historic decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward will stand. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 9:39 pm
“The U.S. government continues to use false claims of national security to dodge judicial scrutiny of extraordinary rendition, even as other countries are openly examining the unlawful program,” said Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
From Cuba to Manhattan, the ACLU will be present to observe, record and comment on the events: National Security Project staff attorney Hina Shamsi is in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where she'll observe tomorrow's military commission hearing of Salim Ahmed Hamdan (of Hamdan v. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 2:41 pm
In court however, the Obama administration continues to defend a broader view of state secrets put forward by the Bush administration and to demand that federal courts throw out lawsuits filed by victims of torture and illegal surveillance,” Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a statement. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 1:01 am
As Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project, observed, “The Obama administration has now fully embraced the Bush administration’s shameful effort to immunize torturers and their enablers from any legal consequences for their actions. [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:18 am
As Ben Wizner, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who argued the case, summed matters up, "To date, every victim of the Bush administration's torture regime has been denied his day in court. [read post]
