Patrick C. Toomey
Patrick Toomey is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project, where he works on issues related to privacy, surveillance, national security prosecutions, and racial and religious discrimination. Toomey is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and to Judge Barrington D. Parker, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Deep Dive
U.S. Courts Must Stop Shielding Government Surveillance Programs from Accountability
The NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ internet use raises serious constitutional concerns, but the government claims a lawsuit against the program would compromise “state secrets”
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Deep Dive
A New Consensus Around Transparency and National Security Surveillance
Civil libertarian arguments that were dismissed a decade ago are now broadly accepted, even at the highest levels of the intelligence community
By Jameel Jaffer & Patrick C. Toomey