Wilner v. NSA

"Wilner v. NSA" is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Thomas Wilner and fifteen other lawyers who represented Guantanamo captives against the United States National Security Agency.cite news
url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/05/ex-guantanamo-lawyers-sue-for.php
date=Saturday, May 19, 2007
title=Ex-Guantanamo lawyers sue for recordings of client meetings
author=Mike Rosen-Molina
publisher=The Jurist
accessdate=2007-05-22] cite web
url=http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_11th/sept11Article.asp?ObjID=DmJtlh90ID&Content=1035
title=Wilner v. NSA
publisher=The Jurist
accessdate=May 22
accessyear=2007] cite web
url=http://ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/docs/FOIA_NSA_complaint.pdf
title=Wilner v. NSA
publisher=Center for Constitutional Rights
date=May 17 2007
accessdate=May 22
accessyear=2007]

The lawyers argued that the NSA, through its warrantless wiretap program, had violated their attorney-client privilege.They referred to the January 18 2006 lawsuit "CCR v. Bush", and called the NSA's response "inadequate". They assert that while the Government had released 85 pages of documents they had withheld another 85 that the law obliged them to release.

The other lawyers participating in the suit are:

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