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Anthony Romero was appointed the ACLU’s executive director one week before the September 11 attacks. [1]
Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks out about issues highlighted by the Combined Federal Campaign requirements on checking employees against terrorist watch lists. [2]
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview conducted by Mark Dow and Kent Worcester with Anthony Romero in April 2004 in his lower Manhattan office. [3]
Anthony Romero became executive director in September 2001, a week before the September 11, 2001 attacks. [4]
When Anthony Romero took over the A.C.L.U., he was charged with bringing the venerable civil-liberties group into the 21st century. [5]
From Anthony D. Romero, and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston, this book takes a critical look at civil liberties in the United States. [6]
Romero, 40, the A.C.L.U.’s first Hispanic’and also its first openly gay’executive director, was raised in housing projects in the Bronx, N.Y. Despite being U.S. citizens, his Puerto Rican parents labored under the sort of stigma illegal immigrants often face. [5]
Anthony D. Romero is the American executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. [4]
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in Romero’s first weeks at the helm, the ACLU became an early and effective critic of the Bush Administration’s immigration sweeps, and has gone on to win victories over the PATRIOT ACT as well as file the first successful legal challenge to the NSA’s spying program. [1]
Romero was born in New York City on July 9, 1965 to Puerto Rican parents Demetrio and Coralie Romero. [4]
AR: It is certainly true that the seeds for the Patriot Act were found in the 1996 law signed by President Clinton, and that were championed by the Justice Department under Janet Reno. [3]
I recently learned more about this list because my organization, the ACLU, had signed a funding agreement with the Combined Federal Campaign in order to receive $500,000 it gathers from federal employees. [2]
“When you’ve seen prejudice, you understand that we aren’t finished, that we’re still perfecting this American experiment.” [5]
Romero is the ACLU’s sixth executive director and the first openly gay man and the first Hispanic to lead the venerable civil liberties institution. [1]
New Politics: Yesterday during the September 11 Commission hearings, when he was defending some of the Patriot Act measures that have been criticized, Ashcroft said that a lot of what the Patriot Act did was simply to extend measures that were already in existence. [3]
Sources:
[1] Anthony Romero & Ava Lowery
[2] Independent Sector | Perspectives
[3] An Interview with the ACLU’s Anthony Romero
[4] Anthony Romero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Anthony Romero - TIME
[6] American Civil Liberties Union : Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director