Jameel Jaffer, a leading crusader against state secrecy, will join our two-part panel in here Cleveland next Monday. He’ll chat first with our panel on BBC’s World Have Your Say, which will live-broadcast from our stage at the Allen Theater, and then with our Cleveland audience about Free Speech and the War on Terror. We’re very excited to have him.
Mr. Jaffer had a significant victory last month, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the ACLU’s challenge to a warrantless wiretapping statute can go forward.
As with many of our panelists (e.g. Geoffrey Robertson, Q.C., who represents Julian Assange in the U.K. extradition controversy) Mr. Jaffer is always in the thick of major world events. Last year, he represented Anwar Al-Awlaki’s father in a lawsuit challenging the government’s asserted authority to carry out “targeted killings” of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone. The U.S. recently killed Al-Awlaki with a targeted drone strike. Some of Mr. Jaffer’s comments are available at this release from the ACLU.
