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Apr. 1, 2010
The Outsider
Anthony Romero became national executive director of the ACLU just one week before hijacked jetliners destroyed the twin towers in Manhattan. Young, Puerto Rican, and gay, Romero had to win over his own board as he forged an attack on the excesses of the government's war on terror. Now he's taken on the Obama administration.
A few blocks from where the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11, Anthony D. Romero's 19th-floor corner office commands a view of the New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty. All around us stand the landmarks of Manhattan's financial power. From this perch Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, runs the nation's premiere civil rights organization. Having never been a lit...
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