[ACLU-NM] KUNM Call-In Show: Challenges To The Bush Administration's War On Terror

[Whitney Potter]

Thursday, August 2, 2007


KUNM Call-in Show: Challenges to the Bush Administration's War on Terror



This morning, the KUNM Call-in Show
<http://kunm.org/programs/program.php?progid=EEEpApVVpVtRjzPAFM&bmon=8&b
day=2&byear=2007>  featured guests Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's
National Security Program and Peter Simonson, Executive Director of the
ACLU of New Mexico. If you missed the show you may download the audio
file here: http://aclu-nm.org/Press/KUNM_Call_In_080207.cda

Jameel Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and
Director of the ACLU's National Security Program. Currently, his docket
includes Doe v. Gonzales, a challenge to the FBI's "national security
letter" authority; ACLU v. NSA, a challenge to the constitutionality of
warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency;
American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff, a challenge to the
government's refusal to grant a visa to Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan; and
ACLU v. Department of Defense, litigation under the Freedom of
Information Act for records concerning the treatment and detention of
prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay.
Mr. Jaffer is a graduate of Williams College, Cambridge University, and
Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the staff of the ACLU, Mr. Jaffer
served as law clerk to Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin,
Chief Justice of Canada.

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Whitney Potter

Communications Manager

American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico

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