TOWN HALL ON SPYING, SECRECY & PRESIDENTIAL POWER
The ACLU's third expert panel met on the evening of June 11 in advance of arguments in our landmark NSA lawsuit, the first ever hearing before a federal court on the president's illegal spying program. Watch or listen now!
Most people should be able to watch the video archive. If you are unable to watch the video link, you can use the audio-only link.
June 11 panelists included:
- John W. Dean, former White House Counsel
- Ann Beeson, ACLU Associate Legal Director
- James Bamford, spying expert and ACLU v. NSA plaintiff
- Nazih Hassan, CAIR-MI, ACLU v. NSA plaintiffAdd your voice to the call for an end to illegal government spying now!
For updates on the ACLU v. NSA lawsuit as they unfold, go to www.aclu.org/nsaspying.
Today's live town hall is third in our series.
At the first Town Hall, on President's Day, 2006, Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the Kennedy School's Washington programs, moderated. Opening remarks and closing were given by Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Panelists included:
- Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director
- John W. Dean, former White House counsel
- Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard
- Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, the Cato Institute
- Mary DeRosa, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
On April 11, 2006, Dottie Lamm, the former first lady of Colorado, moderated our Denver Town Hall, which included:
- Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, ACLU
- Bruce Fein, former Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan administration
- Gary Hart, former Senator (D-CO) and presidential candidate
- Mark Silverstein, ACLU of Colorado Legal Director
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