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The day already was overstuffed with surveillance matters, and then came this: the DNI's release of a tranche of roughly twenty five historical FISC orders.
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While everyone's attention was (rightly) focused on President Obama's major speech on NSA reforms, the Supreme Court quietly granted certiorari in a set of important digital rights cases. The two cases ...
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Just posted on IC on the Record:
Statement from DNI James R. Clapper on Intelligence Reforms Announced Today by President Obama
Today, President Obama announced new guidelines for Intelligence Community...
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The President’s speech and accompanying Policy Directive together announce all manner of changes; it will take a while to grasp them all. In the meantime, here's an off-the-cuff reaction: I reckon we wil...
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Below is the video of the discussion that took place today at Brookings on the President's NSA speech.
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Below is the full text of President Obama's speech:
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Results of our Signals Intelligence Review
January 17, 2014
Washington, D.C.
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This Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-28) on Signals Intelligence Activities is being released today in conjunction with the President's speech in a few minutes.
It opens:
The United States, like othe...
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Just in case you want to read something not about reforms to NSA surveillance: here's the opinion from the D.C. Circuit in Al-Janko v. Gates.
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In his much-anticipated speech later today, President Obama is set to call for an overhaul of NSA surveillance programs, according to The Washington Post. A White House official has said that the presid...
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Huawei Denies US Compromised Security Equipment. Here's the opening of this report from Australia:
Chinese tech giant Huawei, which has long been dogged by security suspicions, has denied a report its t...
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Hmmmm. Here's a very interesting few paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
The president's speech, to be delivered at the Justice Department, caps a process that was similar to the one he undertook on...
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The most important judicial opinion to date concerning the U.S. Government’s terrorist watchlisting programs was issued on Tuesday, in the case of Ibrahim v.
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We're going to skip all of the preview stories about the President's NSA speech tomorrow. You'll find out what he's going to say when he says it.
We begin with military news. The Air Force leadership ha...
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I keep getting media inquiries today asking me for predictions about what President Obama is going be saying tomorrow. Short answer: How the heck should I know? The President's speech-writing team doesn'...
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The Brookings Institution will host---and Ben will speak at---a panel event tomorrow afternoon following President Obama's speech on NSA reform and the Review Group Report. We will embed the event video,...
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On December 18, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology released its much anticipated report, Liberty and Security in a Changing World. Tomorrow, President Obama will g...
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Last fall, during the debate on airstrikes in Syria, commentators argued that the United States needed to act in order to preserve the credibility of American threats.
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The Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law is putting out a series of short essays, starting today, called "The Briefing: Secrecy and Accountability in the Digital Age." Here is the...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its report reviewing the attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The report broadly faults the State Department and various intelligence agencies f...
