Bio
Ben Wizner is a Deputy Legal Director at the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ and Director of its Center for Democracy, which encompasses the organization’s work on free speech, privacy, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, human rights, and national security. Prior to assuming this role, Ben was the director of the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. In more than two decades at the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ, 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
Aug 23, 2013
Chelsea Manning and the Government's Draconian Approach to Whistleblowers
Aug 1, 2013
Beyond Bradley Manning: The Government Has Made Its Point (UPDATED)
Jun 10, 2013
Checks, Balances, and the National Security Agency
May 16, 2012
Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: “What Would You Do?â€
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