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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...
