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Jameel Jaffer

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Deputy legal director of the ACLU and director of its Center for Democracy, he’s been a human rights monitor for the military commissions at Guantánamo since 2004; author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

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