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Hina Shamsi

Hina Shamsi is director of the ACLU’s National Security Project.

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Dec 10, 2017
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News Analysis

Uncle Sam’s Databases of Suspicion: A Shadow Form of National ID

The US government’s many watchlists should be seen as a new form of national ID for a growing group of people accused of no crime.
by
Mathew Harwood &
Hina Shamsi,
TomDispatch
November 6, 2014
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