Center for Constitutional Rights files FOIA lawsuit for records of warrantless wiretapping program
From the Center for Constitutional Rights:
Wilner v. NSA is a FOIA lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 16 attorneys who represent men detained at Guantanamo Bay. The lawsuit seeks records of any NSA surveillance of the plaintiffs under the warrantless wiretapping program initiated after 9/11.The lawsuit was filed on May 17, 2007 in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit is against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and is demanding that the government comply with requests to turn over all records of NSA warrantless wiretapping of certain attorneys representing men detained at Guantánamo.
The plaintiffs - including CCR staff attorneys Gitanjali Gutierrez and Wells Dixon as well as law professors and partners at prominent international law firms - represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and may have been the subjects of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program that began shortly after September 11, 2001.