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30 Apr 2012, 11:59 am
The piece, penned by ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer and National Security Project Legal Fellow Nathan Wessler, explains that in ACLU lawsuits about the drone strike program the CIA has consistently taken the position that it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the program or any records related to it, despite the fact that numerous other government officials have spoken about the program to the public and the press. [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]
14 Jun 2012, 12:01 pm
The government "cannot lawfully release selected information about the CIA's drone program to the media, both on the record and off, while insisting to the courts that the release of any information about the program would jeopardize national security," ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said in court papers. [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]
2 Oct 2013, 3:18 am
Next up is Jameel Jaffer for the ACLU, who is cut off by Judge José Cabranes no more than three words into his oral argument in order to follow up on the discovery line. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 10:21 am
Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director, published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times last year on earlier disclosures by a former CIA lawyer in connection with the targeted killing program. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 3:54 pm
“President Trump’s Twitter account has become an important source of news and information about the government, and an important forum for speech by, to, or about the president,” said Jameel Jaffer, the Knight Institute’s executive director. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 9:47 am
Panelists: Floyd Abrams, senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Lyrissa Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 2:34 pm
” ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer made some of the same points in a panel discussion on Al Jazeera English: Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:21 am
Testifying at the hearing, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer spoke in detail about our concerns with the law and how it authorizes mass, suspicionless surveillance of international communications – even if one party is an American in the US. [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]
5 Jul 2011, 8:41 am
“With the approval of the Bush administration’s most senior officials, the C.I.A. operated an interrogation program that subjected prisoners to unimaginable cruelty and violated both international and domestic law,” said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the ACLU. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 1:46 pm
Over the weekend, in a letter responding to that op-ed, Larry and ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer write:The Bush torture program was […] a kind of Ponzi scheme of torture, with one prisoner’s tainted confession supplying the basis for the detention of another, and that prisoner’s tainted confession supplying the basis for the detention of still another. [read post]
21 May 2012, 12:45 pm
ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said: “The constitutionality of the government’s surveillance powers can and should be tested in court. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 1:29 pm
Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU lawyer who represents a coalition of criminal defense attorneys, journalists, and scholars that had formally challenged the legality of the NSA program (last year, a federal court in Michigan agreed with the ACLU that the program was illegal; the Bush administration has appealed the decision.), urged Congress to issue subpoenas to learn more about the executive branch's legal justifications, the involvement of telecoms and what secret surveillance… [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 6:32 am
by Chantal Joris TikTok and the First Amendment by Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senate Foreign Relations Committee FY2024 State Department Budget Hearing: Key Takeaways by Mary Szarkowicz Supreme Court / Ethics It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Take Ethics Seriously by Alan Neff (@AlanNeff) and Caroline Fredrickson (@crfredrickson) The post Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Mar. 18-24) appeared first on Just Security. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 9:47 am
" In a statement today, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said: The government's surveillance practices should not be immune from judicial review, and this decision ensures that they won't be. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 9:26 am
But even then, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer was hesitant about the government weighing national security concerns at the cost of public disclosure: While the Obama administration should be commended for the issuance of this directive, we remain concerned that executive agencies are invoking national security concerns as a pretext to suppress records that relate to government misconduct.Unfortunately, these concerns are still largely relevant. [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]
14 Jan 2007, 2:51 pm
Jameel Jaffer is Deputy Director of the ACLU ’s National Security Program and lead counsel in Doe v. [read post]
