Ben Wizner
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Deputy Legal Director, ACLU. Views are my own.
Joined April 2012
New statement: our thanks to @Snowden for his courageous actions five years ago today https://t.co/qXy2vS4PZA
medium.com
On the five year anniversary of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaking a massive trove of classified information that has since…
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Un acte invraisemblable, irrationnel, émotionnel perpétré par un Etat occidental, puissant et démocratique. #etaitilvraisemblable
A bizarre, pointless temper tantrum.
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I went with 500 days of Trump and 50 years since RFK in Morning Media https://t.co/7wH8tLIU5N CJR’s @byPeteVernon led wit 5 years post-Snowden in his newsletter
cjr.org
Five years ago today, The Guardian began publishing a series of stories that would change the way the public viewed their online lives. “The National Security Agency is currently collecting the...
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A bizarre, pointless temper tantrum.
The surreal moment the Guardian destroyed the Snowden files
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They lost the popular vote, though.
I am reading about a 7 - 2 vote. Pretty sure that's not narrowly... At least 2 dem leaning justices must have agreed.
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Fred Fleitz is the chief of staff of the National Security Council. Things are bad. https://t.co/3BHc1eGWuJ
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Revised guidance on this spicy topic: It's “chile” and “chiles” for any of a variety of spicy peppers or the sauces or gravies derived from them. The meat- and/or bean-based dish is “chili.” #APStyleChat
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Happy 15th anniversary to the single most grotesque defense of the Iraq war. https://t.co/IbF7qDNC30
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Read this thread, and then go here https://t.co/UdOqntOqoV to sign our petition and here https://t.co/bwTMkUcRMo for more on the case
aclu.org
SETTLEMENT UPDATE: Sept. 26, 2024: Attorneys Fees Settlement Agreement: https://www.aclu.org/documents/ms-l-attorneys-fees-settlement-agreement Attorneys Fees Class Notice (English): https://www.ac...
This transcript is hard reading. This is the ACLU lawyer pleading with the court.
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Apple pie -- also very, very good.
“I love the National Anthem … and I love the First Amendment and I’ll just leave it that.” Nancy Pelosi declines to take a position on the NFL anthem ruling, but says she wishes the players had been a bigger part of the decision https://t.co/49cjWsqTN7
#PelosiTownHall
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Here's my full interview with NSA whistleblower Edward @Snowden on Trump, Putin, Zuckerberg, Facebook, privacy and more on today's #Deconstructed - you can listen to it, and subscribe to my podcast, here: https://t.co/Wx0er7g41m
theintercept.com
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss surveillance, privacy protection, and the likelihood of a Trump-Putin deal to extradite him.
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Yes, this is very good. Worth reading.
Must-read. Conservative veteran David French of @Nationalreview nails it on NFL silencing of anthem protesters
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Shout-out to all the foreign spies who joined up for adventure but now have to spend their evenings listening to Trump's phone calls with Rudy and Hannity.
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THREAD: ACLU-obtained docs reveal that Amazon is helping govts deploy its dangerous new facial recognition technology. Today 40 civil rights orgs are demanding Amazon prohibit govts from using this service, called Rekognition. 1/
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