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For years, the Intelligence Community has fought hard against the disclosure of its budget. Even the top line total was, for many decades, classified. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post...
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Our series on the NSA documents now being complete, I thought I would collect all of the posts together in one place. Here are the documents themselves.
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The final document in the cache declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Wednesday is the ninth joint compliance assessment conducted by the ODNI and the Department o...
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Two months ago, we ran a post explaining the NSA's minimization procedures based on a copy of the procedures (dating from June 2009) that had been leaked to the Guardian.
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In her post from earlier today responding to yesterday's government disclosures, Carrie writes that "I hope it is clear that the critics of surveillance activities only see transparency as the first step...
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In response to yesterday's story in the Wall Street Journal on surveillance of internet communications, the NSA issued this statement:
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Yesterday’s cache of declassified materials also sheds important light on the administration’s interactions with Congress over intelligence oversight---not just its interactions with the relevant intelli...
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With the release of yesterday’s declassified FISA documents, the debate over whether the FISA Court is an effective check on government surveillance activities is over. Or at least it should be.
Before ...
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The one major remaining issue after Judge Bates’s November 2011 opinion involved what to with communications transactions acquired under the old minimization procedures, which Judge Bates had struck down...
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The government acted swiftly in response to Judge John D. Bates’s October 3, 2011 opinion. While it contemplated an appeal, it did not bring one. Instead, it adopted a series of alterations to the NSA’s ...
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The document that will surely capture the lion’s share of the public’s attention---and rightly so---is the October 3, 2011 FISC opinion by Judge John D. Bates, then the presiding judge of the FISC.
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Rather than starting with what I---or anyone else---think and believe about the remarkable cache of documents the intelligence community declassified yesterday, I thought we should begin with a detailed ...
