Bio
Ben Wizner is the director of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’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 ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û, 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
Mar 27, 2007
A Tailor-Made Guilty Plea
Mar 26, 2007
Amid Public Pentagon Doubts, Gitmo Trials Resume
Jan 12, 2007
America's Gulag, 1/11/02 - 1/11/07
Oct 25, 2006
What Was the Dog's Name? (And Who Is the Mystery Man?)
Apr 28, 2006
Then Things Got Interesting...
Apr 26, 2006
A Day of Firsts
Apr 26, 2006
Lipstick on a Pig
Mar 28, 2006
Oral Argument Gives No Clear Indication
Mar 28, 2006
What's at Stake in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Jan 13, 2006
Impressions of Guantanamo