Shayana Kadidal is Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights based in New York City.
For over 4 years, the National Security Agency has engaged in a program of widespread warrantless electronic surveillance of communications, sidestepping the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. On January 17, 2006, the CCR filed a lawsuit against President Bush and the head of the NSA, challenging the surveillance of persons within the U.S. without judicial approval or statutory authorization. The suit argues that the NSA Surveillance Program violates a clear criminal law, exceeds the president's authority under Article II of the Constitution and violates the First and Fourth Amendments.
Mr. Kadidal is a graduate of Yale Law School and has been at the Center for almost five years. He has worked on a number of CCR's significant post-9/11 cases, including the Center's successful Supreme Court challenge to the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo, Rasul v. Bush. He is the lead attorney in CCR's NSA lawsuit. He is also currently working on Turkmen v. Ashcroft, representing people swept up on immigration charges after 9/11 and unlawfully detained and abused.
Mr. Kadidal is co-author of the Center's new book, Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush (Melville House Publishing, 2006.
Mr. Kadidal spoke before local progressives October 6, 2006 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim. He had earlier in the week spoken before a class at UC Irvine.
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