Wilner v. NSA is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Thomas Wilner

Thomas Wilner

Thomas B. Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. Wilner has also represented the high-profile human rights cases of a dozen Kuwaiti citizens detained in the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Wilner earned his law...

 and fifteen other lawyers who represented Guantanamo captives against the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 National Security Agency

National Security Agency

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...

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The lawyers argued that the NSA, through its warrantless wiretap

NSA warrantless surveillance controversy

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns surveillance of persons within the United States during the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency as part of the war on terror...

 program, had violated their attorney-client privilege.
They referred to the January 18, 2006 lawsuit CCR v. Bush

CCR v. Bush

In CCR v. Bush the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against the Bush Presidency, challenging the National Security Agency's surveillance of people within the United States, including the interception of CCR emails without securing a warrant first.The lawsuit was filed on January...

, and called the NSA's response "inadequate". They assert that while the Government had released 85 pages of documents they had withheld another 85 that the law obliged them to release.

The other lawyers participating in the suit are:

Thomas Wilner Thomas Wilner Thomas B. Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. Wilner has also represented the high-profile human rights cases of a dozen Kuwaiti citizens detained in the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Wilner earned his law...

Jonathan Hafetz Jonathan Hafetz Jonathan Hafetz is an American lawyer and writer.Hafetz works for the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union".He is notable for volunteering to serve to assist Guantanamo captives to access the US Justice system....

Gitanjali S. Gutierrez Gitanjali S. Gutierrez Gitanjali S. Gutierrez is the lawyer for the defendant Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is held at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay by the United States Military....

Michael J. Sternhell

Jonathon Wells Dixon

Joshua Colangelo-Bryan

Brian J. Neff

Joseph Margulies Joseph Margulies (lawyer) Joseph Margulies is an American attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and Associate Clinical Professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago....

Scott S. Barker

Anne Castle

Jim Dorsey

Asmah Tareen

Richard A. Grigg

Thomas R. Johnson

George Brent Mickum IV George Brent Mickum IV George Brent Mickum IV is an American lawyer with the Washington DC law firm Hollingsworth LLP.Mickum represented three British residents, Bisher Al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, and Martin Mubanga in El Banna v...

Charles H. Carpenter

Stephen M. Truitt Stephen M. Truitt Stephen M. Truitt is an American lawyer in Washington DC, retired from the Pepper Hamilton law firm.Although retired from Pepper Hamilton, Truitt continues to practice general civil litigation as a solo...