May 2015 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Manning is the US soldier who became the source of some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks published in 2010. Thanks to Manning’...
Ben Wizner
Ben Wizner is director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project. He has litigated numerous cases involving post-9/11 civil liberties abuses, including challenges to airport security policies, terrorism watchlists, extraordinary rendition, and torture, and he is a 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 9th Circuit.
In June 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden met with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen Macaskill and film-maker Laura Poitras in Hong Kong. The whistleblower gave them documents which proved t...