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24 Feb 2010, 1:43 pm
The ACLU’s National Security Project Director, Jameel Jaffer, will participate in a session on “Arguments for and Against Limits on Knowledge in a Democracy” to discuss the disadvantages of limits on knowledge. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 11:51 am
From its response today on the photos: "We are disappointed that the president has signed a law giving the Defense Department the authority to hide evidence of its own misconduct, and we hope the defense secretary will not take advantage of that authority by suppressing photos related to the abuse of prisoners," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 8:13 am
In the continuing debate about the Obama Administration's attempt to suppress photos of detainee abuse by U.S. military personnel, The Los Angeles Times has this opinion piece by Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 1:31 pm
Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said the CIA’s position “is entirely incompatible with the Obama administration’s stated commitment to ending torture and restoring governmental transparency. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 7:29 pm
" Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU's National Security Project counters that openness is necessary, since the July passage of the FISA Amendments Act means the court will be ruling on the constitutionality of new, broad and powerful surveillance powers. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 8:12 pm
The ACLU says: "These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 8:48 am
Proceeding with this trial now will only draw out a legal process that has taken far too long already, and further discredit a system that has been a disgrace from the start," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project.Following last month's Supreme Court decision ruling that the Constitution and habeas corpus apply at Guantánamo, news outlets have reported that the Bush administration is engaging… [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 10:28 am
Jameel Jaffer, Director of our National Security Project, will testify. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 3:05 pm
According to the article, authorization to torture came from the top:The advisers were members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 3:15 pm
Amrit Singh, ACLU staff attorney, and Jameel Jaffer, director of our National Security Project, didn't know it was coming. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 2:06 pm
Before Taxi to the Dark Side opened in theaters, Gibney talked with Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project about the film. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 10:58 am
"The idea of the government tracking that amount of mail is quite alarming," says Jameel Jaffer, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 9:52 am
That rankles Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, who says the courts are abdicating their oversight role. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 11:20 am
Jameel Jaffer, director of our National Security Project and co-author, with Amrit Singh, of Administration of Torture, a book about the Bush administration's torture policies, told The New York Times the Military Commission Act that Congress passed in 2006 forbids the use of evidence gathered through torture at trial. [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 12:13 pm
Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's National Security Project and one of the ACLU's lawyers in our FOIA lawsuit told The Washington Post: ''The CIA appears to have deliberately destroyed evidence that would have allowed its agents to be held accountable for the torture of prisoners…They are tapes that should have been released to the courts and Congress, but the CIA apparently believes that its agents are above the… [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
Finally, in New York, ACLU attorneys Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh will ask the U.S. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 1:45 am
My friend Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, has an excellent letter to the editor in today's NY Times, in which he notes that the U.S. government refused to issue a visa to Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing after she joined the Communist Party, and didn't allow her to visit the country until 1969. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 12:27 pm
In the first effort of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union will today file legal papers with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) requesting that it disclose recent legal opinions discussing the scope of the government's authority to engage in secret wiretapping of Americans "Publication of these secret court orders is vitally important to the ongoing debate about government surveillance," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the… [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 1:32 pm
Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, is observing the military tribunals in Guantánamo Bay this week. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 9:45 am
Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, is observing the military tribunals in Guantánamo Bay this week. [read post]
