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The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1...
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Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent. Two additional data points strengthen his argument.
First, back in Ju...
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By now you've likely heard: the President will back a legislative proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata. And Congressmen Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersburger, the Chairman and R...
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Besides everyone being in a tizzy about President Obama's proposal to end bulk metadata collection---and a competing proposal announced today, by the House Intel Committee---it turns out there's a lot go...
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Further to my post yesterday, the administration has sent this letter to Congress in relation to the Uganda mission, using the usual "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" formulation.
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This morning's press conference with President Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has just concluded. We've thus removed the embedded video player, and will await a transcript of the two leaders' remar...
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Who needs the NSA? Now you can buy Tile for just $20 and track anything you want.
Tile is a small white square that you can affix to almost anything. It's only a few millimeters thick -- thin enough t...
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This week’s cyberlaw podcast begins as always with the week in NSA. We suspect that a second tech exec meeting with the President (for two hours!) bodes ill for the intelligence community, or at least th...
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Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.
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That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...
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Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda?
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Winston Churchill famously declared, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Almost 80 years later, that's President Putin in a nutshell: th...
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Last week, the Administration announced its plan to devolve governance of the Internet’s naming function (which goes by the acronym IANA) to a non-profit organization, the Internet Corporation for Assign...
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Published by PublicAffairs (2013)
Reviewed by Alan Rozenshtein
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Editor’s Note: The United States has long favored a robust international order—but defining the salient characteristics of the international order and evaluating its structure and stability can be diffic...
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Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t...
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David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...
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This week, my Brookings colleagues in our Foreign Policy Program hosted an address by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a speech and audience Q&A on Russia, Ukraine and Crimea and, more ge...
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Let's start with NSA news. This week, attention shifted slightly from from NSA’s domestic 215 program to its foreign collection activities.
