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Ben Wizner

Deputy Legal Director and Director, Center for Democracy

ACLU

Role: 桃子视频Leadership

Bio

Ben Wizner is a Deputy Legal Director at the 桃子视频and Director of its Center for Democracy, which encompasses the organization鈥檚 work on free speech, privacy, immigrants鈥 rights, voting rights, human rights, and national security. Prior to assuming this role, Ben was the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. In more than two decades at the ACLU, Ben has litigated cases involving the right to protest, freedom of expression online, government surveillance practices, airport security policies, targeted killing, and torture. 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.


Featured work

May 17, 2017

How More Trump Leaks Can Save America

How More Trump Leaks Can Save America

Aug 23, 2013

Chelsea Manning and the Government's Draconian Approach to Whistleblowers

Chelsea Manning and the Government's Draconian Approach to Whistleblowers

Aug 1, 2013

Beyond Bradley Manning: The Government Has Made Its Point (UPDATED)

Beyond Bradley Manning: The Government Has Made Its Point (UPDATED)

Jun 10, 2013

Checks, Balances, and the National Security Agency

Checks, Balances, and the National Security Agency

May 16, 2012

Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: 鈥淲hat Would You Do?鈥

Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: 鈥淲hat Would You Do?鈥

Apr 26, 2012

The Government鈥檚 Overreach on Bradley Manning

The Government鈥檚 Overreach on Bradley Manning

Apr 23, 2012

A Question for America About Torture

A Question for America About Torture

Sep 9, 2011

The Accountability Shell Game

The Accountability Shell Game

Oct 7, 2009

The End of the Beginning? Or the Beginning of the End?

The End of the Beginning? Or the Beginning of the End?

Aug 7, 2008

The Travesty Continues: Hamdan's Sentencing

The Travesty Continues: Hamdan's Sentencing