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Washington Post on Privacy Violations and Illegal Surveillance by the NSA
Over at the Washington Post, Barton Gellman has a Snowden-sourced piece revealing that the NSA "has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress gra... -
D.C. Circuit Issues Stay in Hatim v. Obama
This afternoon, Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Janice Rogers Brown, and Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit filed a per curiam order granting the government’s motion to stay the district court’s July... -
Appellants File Reply Brief in Hatim v. Obama
The government has filed its reply in support of its July motion for a stay pending appeal in Hatim v. Obama. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Egypt is a giant, chaotic, deplorable mess. The death toll, as of this writing, has risen to 525, reports the New York Times. President Obama has canceled next month’s planned joint military exercise jus... -
Sens. Durbin and Feinstein Don't Address the Toughest Guantanamo Questions
Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo. As I’ve argue... -
The Cairo Diary: Scenes from a Bloodbath
At a little before seven am yesterday morning, police and military stormed the two sit-ins where supporters of ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi have been encamped for the last six weeks.... -
Susan Landau on Snowden's Revelations
Susan Landau has a new piece at Computing Now called Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations: Did Snowden cause irreparable harm, or did he reveal facts that sho... -
David Remes Responds to the Feinstein/Durbin Op-ed on Closing GTMO
David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”: The oped is quite disappointing. In br... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Cairo is in chaos. Two journalists are dead. -
A Brief Reply to Steve
Given Steve's critiques of my Monday post, both here and here, I thought it worth briefly clarifying a few points. First, Steve somehow draws the conclusion that I am not interested in the legality of s... -
The Snowden Revelations and Cybersecurity
One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (... -
Legitimacy, Legality, and Ben's "Muddled Middle Ground" on FISA
I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m...
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