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The Progressive

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A project of Common Dreams

For Immediate Release
Contact:

Mandy Simon, (202) 675-2312; media@dcaclu.org

ACLU Executive Director To Testify Wednesday Before House On Internet Privacy And Terrorism

American
Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D.

WASHINGTON
American
Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero will testify
before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence,
Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Wednesday at 10
a.m.The subcommittee will hear testimony from legal experts and civil
liberties advocates during the hearing titled "Terrorist Internet
Recruitment and Tradecraft: How to Address an Evolving Terror Tool
While Protecting Free Speech?"
Romero
will testify about the importance of steadfastly preserving privacy
rights and free speech while continuing effective counterterrorism
efforts online.

WHAT:

House
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and
Terrorism Risk Assessment hearing "Terrorist Internet Recruitment and
Tradecraft: How to Address an Evolving Terror Tool While Protecting
Free Speech?"

WHO:

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, ACLU
Bruce Hoffman, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Brian Jenkins, Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation
John Morris, General Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
Rita Katz, Executive Director, SITE Intelligence Group

WHEN:

Wednesday, May 26 at 10 a.m. EDT

WHERE:
311 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 and is our nation's guardian of liberty. The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

(212) 549-2666