Bio
Ben Wizner is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, which works to protect and expand the First Amendment freedoms of expression, association, and inquiry, and ensure that civil liberties are enhanced rather than compromised by new advances in science and technology. For more than two decades at the ACLU, Ben has litigated cases involving the right to protest, freedom of expression online, government surveillance practices, airport security policies, targeted killing, and torture. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal 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 Ninth Circuit.
Featured work
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Aug 23, 2013
Chelsea Manning and the Government's Draconian Approach to Whistleblowers
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Aug 1, 2013
Beyond Bradley Manning: The Government Has Made Its Point (UPDATED)
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Jun 10, 2013
Checks, Balances, and the National Security Agency
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May 16, 2012
Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: “What Would You Do?”
Apr 26, 2012
The Government’s Overreach on Bradley Manning
Oct 7, 2009
The End of the Beginning? Or the Beginning of the End?
Aug 7, 2008
The Travesty Continues: Hamdan's Sentencing
Aug 4, 2008
Weekend in Camp Justice