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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece...
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Among the questions raised by the yesterday's FISC story is this: what has the executive branch said to members of Congress, regarding the collection of Verizon customers' telephony metadata under Sectio...
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Like everyone else I've been following the breaking NSA stories. [And, as an aside, almost lost in the clutter is the Guardian's next revelation of PPD-20, the Administration's Top Secret cyber operatio...
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Happy(?) Friday. Buckle your seat belts, folks, because today's edition is a force to be reckoned with.
President Obama spent about 15 minutes earlier today speaking about the FISA Court order leak and ...
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[Editor's Note: Carrie Cordero is a frequent Lawfare guest poster, a former Justice Department official, and currently Director of National Security Studies at Georgetown University Law Center]
As some...
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The New York Times reports on President Obama’s first public comments on the NSA and FBI surveillance programs. Updated: Check out the C-SPAN video.
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The following roundup is a running list of pertinent statements and quotes from lawmakers in Congress on the FISA order calling for Verizon to turn over customers' phone records, as well as the news abou...
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The House Armed Services Committee was hard at work marking up the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year. We have a transcript of the debate over Democratic Congressman Adam Smi...
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Here it is. The full text---which addresses last night's data mining stories in the press---is as follows:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
The Guardian and The Washingto...
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ODNI has released a statement commenting on the Verizon story. It underscores my point just now about the importance of minimization procedures, but also reminds me that it is perhaps even more importan...
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Four comments on today's Washington Post story (and the Verizon story on domestic and foreign data collection):
First, today's Post story reminded me of this very interesting 2008 post from David Kris. ...
