''Wilner v. NSA'', 592 F.3d 60 (2d Cir. 2009), was a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by

Thomas Wilner Thomas B. Wilner (born 1944) 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 Sta ...

and fifteen other lawyers who represented Guantanamo captives against the United States National Security Agency. The lawyers argued that the NSA, through its warrantless wiretap program, had violated their attorney-client privilege. They referred to the January 18, 2006 lawsuit ''

CCR v. Bush ''CCR v. Bush'' is a legal action by the Center for Constitutional Rights against the George W. Bush administration, challenging the National Security Agency's (NSA's) surveillance of people within the United States, including the interception of ...

'', 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:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilner V. Nsa 2009 in United States case law Guantanamo Bay captives legal and administrative procedures National Security Agency Telephone tapping United States attorney–client privilege case law United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cases United States District Court for the Southern District of New York cases