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Jameel Jaffer is a human rights and civil liberties attorney who is deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, which houses the ACLU’s work relating to free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jameel-jaffer )〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 Since he joined the staff of the ACLU in 2002, Jaffer has litigated many leading cases relating to national security and human rights, including cases concerning surveillance, torture, rendition, and “targeted killing.”〔https://www.aclu.org/blog/author/jameel-jaffer〕 Jaffer is particularly notable for the role he played in litigating Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the release of documents concerning the torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and in CIA black sites. Among the documents released were interrogation directives signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, emails written by FBI agents who witnessed the torture of prisoners, legal memos in which the Office of Legal Counsel stated that U.S. law did not prohibit the President from authorizing torture, and autopsy reports relating to prisoners who were killed in U.S. custody.〔Scott Shane (2009-08-29). "A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents For Truth". (New York Times )〕〔(Colin Freeze (2010-04-19). "Canadian emerges as voice for detainees" )〕 The New York Times billed the lawsuit "one of the most successful in the history of public disclosure."〔Scott Shane (2009-08-29). "A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents For Truth". (New York Times )〕 In 2013, Jaffer co-led the litigation that resulted in the disclosure of one of the Obama administration's "drone memos."〔Benjamin Weiser (2014-03-21). "U.S. Ordered to Release Memo in Awlaki Killing". ()〕〔Jameel Jaffer (2014-06-21). "The Drone Memo Cometh."()〕 Jaffer is an Executive Editor of Just Security, a national security blog.〔http://justsecurity.org/〕 ==Education== Jaffer grew up in Canada, and is a graduate of Upper Canada College, a private school in Toronto.〔 His university education was at Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the law review.〔 After law school, Jaffer was a law clerk to the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jameel Jaffer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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