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Did the NSA Wiretap Gitmo Defense Lawyers?

By | 10.09.09 | 12:49 pm

That’s one of the questions coming up in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit being argued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 23 lawyers who believe they may have been wiretapped without a warrant by the National Security Agency during the Bush administration. But More…

ACLU Responds to DOJ Investigation of Gitmo Defense Lawyers

By | 08.21.09 | 12:47 pm

Here’s the response of Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to this morning’s news that some military defense lawyers are under investigation by the Justice Department:

This is nothing more than a misguided effort to shut down the vigorous defense of defendants at

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