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Nowadays figuring out what sort of post-2001 AUMF authority the White House wants is a bit of a tea leaf-reading exercise. Potentially relevant to it are the events of last Friday concerning the 2002 AUM...
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Six months ago today, I wondered aloud on this blog when President Obama might nominate a new Legal Adviser. At that point, the position had been vacant for over a year since Harold Koh stepped down in...
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Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post reports that four U.S.
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Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that "[a] top White House official suggested Saturday that Congress pass new legislation to support Pre
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Today’s Washington Post piece by Ellen Nakashima speaks of "going dark"---or the "growing gap between the government’s legal authority and its practical ability to capture communications." The article h...
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist the title which does not reflect my true feelings about CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014. Approved earlier this month by the Senate Intelligence Comm...
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Yesterday the government filed its opening brief in Klayman v. Obama, in a bid to overturn D.C. District Court Judge Richard J.
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That is the title of a NYT story this morning by Landler, Gordon, and Mazzetti. The “Blueprint” they have in mind is the one the President laid out at West Point, which (in their words) "relies less on ...
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One of the most eagerly awaited aspects of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ("PCLOB") report on section 702 surveillance was how the PCLOB would treat human rights issues. In January, 201...
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Here is a "pre-release" version of the report; the PCLOB will adopt a final version at its meeting tomorrow morning. It therefore has offered the still-not-yet-official document to the press and public,...
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Get it? Actually, I don't think they did either. It's a cute coincidence. But at any rate, the PCLOB has announced that it will be releasing its report on FISA 702 collection this evening at 9:00 pm:
The...
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While the rest of the world is watching the Supreme Court's final decision day of the year, it's been a busy time in the cyber world as well. Herewith seven (!) bits and bytes of interest, in no particu...
