Bio
Alex Abdo () is a former Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. Prior to joining SPT, Alex was an attorney with the National Security Project, where he was involved in the litigation of cases concerning the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the treatment of detainees in Guant谩namo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Navy brig in South Carolina. Alex is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. Prior to working at the ACLU, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, and to the Hon. Rosemary Barkett, United States Circuit Judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Featured work
Jun 21, 2013
How the NSA's Surveillance Procedures Threaten Americans' Privacy
Jun 12, 2013
Flashback: Biden Agrees Access to Metadata Is 'Very, Very Intrusive' (VIDEO)
Jun 7, 2013
DOJ Tells Court It's Reconsidering Secrecy Surrounding Patriot Act's Spying Powers
Jun 6, 2013
The NSA Surveillance Order, Explained by the ACLU
May 28, 2013
For 鈥淐ivic Hacking Day,鈥� We鈥檙e Opening Our Torture Database to Developers
Apr 26, 2013
WATCH: Condoleezza Rice Defends Torture Program and Confirms Bush's Role in It
Apr 16, 2013
Blue Ribbon Task Force: U.S. Tortured Detainees鈥擫eaders Responsible
Apr 1, 2013
CIA to Promote Head of Black Site Where Torture Occurred?
Mar 12, 2013
Government Increasingly Invoking National Security to Circumvent FOIA
Mar 7, 2013
Google鈥檚 Report on NSLs: What we still don鈥檛 know