Glenn Greenwald Civil Liberties Tour with Bruce Fein and others at UCSD

Glenn Greenwald talks about the current state of civil liberties in America at University of California at San Diego.

This event is being sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation (http://www.fff.org/aboutUs/index.asp);

The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian. A former constitutional lawyer, he was until 2012 a contributing writer at Salon (http://www.salon.com/). He is the author of How Would a Patriot Act? (May 2006), a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power; A
Tragic Legacy (June, 2007), which examines the Bush legacy; and With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.

For those of you who are not familiar with Glenn Greenwald, he has been one of the few consistent champions of civil liberties during George W. Bush's assault on the constitution. He spoke out early against the 9/11 bloodlust, illegal Iraq war, the AUMF (authorized use of military force), the FISA amendment that allows the government to spy without warrant etc...

What sets him apart is that he continues to speak out about those issues despite it being Obama and the "good guys" now advocating the removal of habeas corpus (right to a trial) for terrorists, claiming the executive's right to assassinate anyone including citizens without due process, ramping up domestic surveillance, using drones for due-process-free killing, and imposing unconstitutional limitations on free speech as shown by the militarized response to Occupy Wall Street.

Bruce Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General and General Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under President Ronald Reagan. He served as Research Director for Republicans on the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran, and on the American Bar Association's Committee on Presidential Signing Statements. He has been a Visiting Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct scholar at American Enterprise Institute. He has advised numerous countries on constitutional reform, including South Africa, Hungary and Russia. He is regularly called to testify before the House and Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees.

The National Defense Authorization Act, which has just been partially struck down by a federal judge, will be the hot topic for sure. You can read the background of the case at this link.

See you there!