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The ACLU has filed its reply brief in the D.C. Circuit in its FOIA case against the government, which seeks information about CIA use of drones for targeted killing. I have discussed this case briefly ...
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By now almost everyone has read David Sanger’s fascinating New York Times story relating the behind-the-scenes story of the development and deployment of the Stuxnet virus as part of a larger classified ...
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This morning, Paul flagged a Washington Post op-ed by Senators Coats, Rubio and Burr. The trio's piece concerns the improper revelation of national security secrets. As one example, the authors cite th...
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Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program. One of the most provocative paragraphs is this one (w...
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The Washington Post has an interesting story today announcing that the CIA has opened an internal investigation into its prepublication review process:
The CIA has begun an internal investigation into wh...
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Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.
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In all the last two days' coverage of the Obama administration's targeting program -- including this lengthy NYT piece, Dan Klaidman's book excerpt, and today's NYT editorial -- there's a remarkable lack...
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Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.
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A couple of months ago, Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, sent in this account of the controversy in Britain over a government proposal to allow...
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A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...
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The New York Times published an editorial yesterday criticizing Monday's decision by the Second Circuit in ACLU v.
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I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...
