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This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t...
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President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...
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Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g...
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The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN.
The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be:
The Honorable David M...
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Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ).
The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C
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One of the policy questions kicked to the DNI in PDD-28 was defining the permissible uses of bulk collection. Thanks to Thomas Earnest over at Just Security, I just noticed that the DNI has now done so.
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This one is a strong competitor. I'm trying to think of other uses for this "precedent" -- no power or water for the Army (by peace activists). Or power for Obamacare servers. I wonder if these State...
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As Wells noted last week, there was a significant decision regarding FISA, in the Northern District of Illinois, on January 29th. In the case of United States v. Daoud, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman order...
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This just in from the Post's Ellen Nakashima:
The National Security Agency is collecting less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records because of an inabilit
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Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las...
