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3 Aug 2011, 2:48 pm by Steve Gosset, ACLU
Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, called the strategy a “step in the right direction. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 11:08 am by Rekha Arulanantham
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]
13 Mar 2014, 6:50 pm by Benjamin Wittes
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 ShamsiDirector of the ACLU National Security Project President Has Constitutional Power to Target Americans from Intelligence Squared U.S. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 7:24 am by Jacob deCastro
Not so fast, says Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 1:35 pm by Hadley Baker
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]
1 Jun 2017, 5:43 am by Ryan Mulvey
“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]
24 Jan 2013, 2:28 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
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]
18 Jul 2012, 7:17 am by Benjamin Wittes
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]
30 Apr 2012, 11:59 am by Suzanne Ito
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]
12 Feb 2008, 11:59 am
National Security Project Staff Attorney Hina Shamsi just returned from Guantánamo a few days ago; you can read her observations on our DailyKos Diary. [read post]
3 May 2016, 2:03 pm by Benjamin Wittes
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]
6 Jul 2011, 1:57 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
As Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a statement today: "Unlike the discredited military commissions, federal courts are able to achieve justice and unquestionably have jurisdiction over the material support and conspiracy crimes with which Warsame is charged. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 10:38 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a statement today: “These documents are remarkable because they show just how questionable the government’s basis has been for detaining hundreds of people, in some cases indefinitely, at Guantánamo. [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:07 am by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
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]
22 Feb 2012, 2:31 pm by Suzanne Ito
In a statement that we issued about the news today, Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project said, "These documents show that the NYPD has run amok, engaging in secret multi-state domestic surveillance of innocent people based on crude religious and racial profiling. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 3:56 pm by Matt Murphy
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]
27 Feb 2012, 2:19 pm by Suzanne Ito
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]
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]
6 Mar 2012, 4:55 pm by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
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]
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]