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  1. Highly recommended: Larry Siems and @Doug_Liman discuss @RECKONwTORTURE on @BillMoyers. billmoyers.com/episode/full-s… 8:32 AM May 26th via web
  2. The remarkable thing is that he's not angrier. "After Guantánamo, Starting Anew, in Quiet Anger" nyti.ms/KTOLQ0 6:22 PM May 25th via NYTimes on iOS
  3. NYT congratulates #Obama admin on "string of victories in a tawdry pursuit": covering up #CIA #torture program. nyti.ms/JAQlel 5:20 AM May 25th via NYTimes on iOS
  4. Really super piece by @BillMoyers about unearthing the truth about #torture. huff.to/Ltgbv3. @ACLU @RECKONwTORTURE @penusa 2:24 PM May 24th via web
  5. This week on @BillMoyers: The story of #CIA torture - with @Doug_Liman & @ACLU TheTortureReport writer Larry Siems. bit.ly/KOoh2u 7:03 AM May 24th via web
  6. Harper's Scott Horton on John Brennan, "Lord High Executioner": harpers.org/subjects/NoCom…. #CIA #drones 6:34 AM May 24th via web
  7. Good piece by @AriMelber about @ACLU challenge to warrantless wiretapping statute. on.msnbc.com/KqQ2QN 6:27 PM May 23rd via web
  8. .@carolrosenberg - Shorter Second Circuit: public knows enough about what the #CIA did, who authorized it, and what happened because of it. 10:58 AM May 22nd via Twitter for iPhone
  9. Remember when the open road was the standard metaphor for freedom? via @ACLU and @JayCStanley aclu.org/blog/technolog… 8:29 AM May 22nd via Safari on iOS
  10. In @ACLU case, #CIA tells appeals court that “the public does not know” that the targeted killing program exists. bit.ly/KYf0Yn 3:02 PM May 21st via web
  11. "Laws allowing programs that are utterly secret must at least be subject to independent judicial review." bit.ly/LdVUgj via @penusa 2:55 PM May 21st via web
  12. Appeals court says #CIA can withhold photo that shows condition of prisoner tortured at CIA black site. bit.ly/MbKTvu via @ACLU 11:51 AM May 21st via web
  13. .@charlie_savage 2d Cir: Plaintiffs also had standing b/c reasonable fear of surveillance forced them to forgo sensitive comms altogether. 7:22 AM May 21st via web in reply to charlie_savage
  14. #SCOTUS will hear @ACLU challenge to warrantless wiretapping law. bit.ly/JwDzqP 7:19 AM May 21st via web
  15. #CIA wants another month to decide whether to acknowledge #drone program it has already acknowledged - via @ACLU aclu.org/blog/national-… 5:26 PM May 18th via Safari on iOS
  16. Must read (or must listen) for anyone interested in #Yemen or the #CIA's targeted killing program. via @jeremyscahill m.npr.org/story/15285433… 5:20 PM May 18th via Safari on iOS
  17. .@tnyCloseRead interviews Ali Soufan about #CIA #torture program. Worth reading to the end. newyorker.com/online/blogs/c… 8:12 AM May 17th via web
  18. How do you get off the "no-fly" list? Not even the government seems to know. aclu.org/blog/national-… via @ACLU 11:44 AM May 16th via web
  • Name Jameel Jaffer
  • Bio Deputy Legal Director, ACLU. (Views expressed here are my own.)
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