Hina Shamsi

American Civil Liberties Union

Guest

Director of the National Security Project and former staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union; Lead ACLU Counsel for Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi; former senior advisor to the Project on Extrajudicial Executions at New York University's School of Law

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