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In his excellent analysis of the President's NSA speech and PPD-28, Ben suggests that there is less than meets the eye to the President's promise not to listen in on the conversations of foreign leaders ...
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to all.
The news cycle belongs to Iran.
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President Obama's speech on Friday and its accompanying Presidential Policy Directive (PDD-28) cover a lot of ground, announce a bunch of reforms, announce plans and direction for more, and kick still ot...
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Yesterday’s New York Times editorial about the President’s speech faults the President for failing to give credit to Edward Snowden:
One of his biggest lapses was his refusal to acknowledge that his enti...
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The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r...
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Never was the phrase “the devil’s in the details” more apt than in describing President Obama’s instruction, yesterday, that the government query its bulk collection metadata only “after a judicial findi...
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President Obama’s address on Friday outlining surveillance reforms for the NSA hit the mark in both substance and tone. He defended without apology the necessity of intelligence gathering, outlined the ...
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This week Lawfare focused on the debate over surveillance reform.
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President Obama delivered a major policy address this afternoon---and the White House released an accompanying policy directive---in response to the recommendations of his surveillance review group, the ...
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I had two reactions to President Obama's address, one general and another specific.
First the general. President Obama made a good speech today, both for what he said and what he didn't say. He has a...
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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...
