Shane Kadidal

[5][6][7][8] As Senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Kadidal has coordinated defense of Guantanamo detainees, spoken, written and been interviewed widely as an expert on the legal implications of these cases.

As part of the FOIA request Kadidal wrote: One of the striking things about this program is that it means opposing counsel – particularly the DOJ – may be listening in on our litigation strategy.

The uncertainty created by the existence of the NSA program makes it far more difficult for lawyers to challenge in court all the other illegal behavior of this administration in the course of the so-called War on Terror.

[21] Since he began work at the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2001 Kadidal has taken part in or led litigation in government detention, wiretapping, electoral, and job and religious discrimination cases.

These include defending Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a New York journalist at New York's WBAI radio and stateless national detained indefinitely after the September 11 terrorist attacks;[22] bringing suit against the FDNY for discrimination on behalf of members of the African American firefighters group, the Vulcan Society, which was further expanded to include women and Hispanic firefighters;[23][24][25][26] litigating against the NSA for accused wiretapping of lawyers;[27] litigating a suit against the "Material Support" segments of the Patriot Act, specifically in its restriction of fundraising for medical clinics in parts of Sri Lanka occupied by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE);[28] litigating and organizing litigation of three 2005 cases against United States government travel restrictions to Cuba;[29] and arguing in a suit on behalf of a United States Sikh rights group alleging religious discrimination of employees by New York Transit Authority.