Bio
Ben Wizner (@benwizner) is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture. He appears regularly in the global media, has testified before Congress, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Featured work
Mar 26, 2007
Amid Public Pentagon Doubts, Gitmo Trials Resume
Jan 12, 2007
America's Gulag, 1/11/02 - 1/11/07
Oct 25, 2006
What Was the Dog's Name? (And Who Is the Mystery Man?)
Apr 28, 2006
Then Things Got Interesting...
Apr 26, 2006
A Day of Firsts
Apr 26, 2006
Lipstick on a Pig
Mar 28, 2006
Oral Argument Gives No Clear Indication
Mar 28, 2006
What's at Stake in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Jan 13, 2006
Impressions of Guantanamo
Jan 12, 2006
The Words of the Accused