ACLU sues for government surveillance records of former Hawthorne man

by Raja Abdulrahim for Los Angeles Times, view original article

August 18, 2010

Maintaining that the U.S. government was behind a U.S. citizen’s imprisonment for more than a year in the United Arab Emirates, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking federal surveillance records.

The suit, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, asks the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies for records of their surveillance of Naji Hamdan, a former Hawthorne resident.

The ACLU says the intelligence agencies have not released any information in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in January.

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