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Summary: Jewel v. NSA and the Accidental Deletion of Surveillance Data
The National Security Agency made headlines last week when Politico reported that the agency had made a court filing informing a federal judge that it had accidentally deleted data related to ongoing lit... -
Summary: The FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017
The Senate voted 65 to 34 to extend FISA Section 702 authorities for six years on Thursday, one day before the temporary authorization was set to expire. The House passed the reauthorization measure on J... -
The Merits of Supporting 702 Reauthorization (Despite Worries About Trump and the Rule of Law)
The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin Tuesday to invoke cloture on the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017, which would reauthorize for six years Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveil... -
Document: Lee Arrest Affidavit
The FBI has arrested former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee. The New York Times reported Tuesday evening that Lee is suspected of providing classified information to the Chinese government that helped Bei... -
Trump Tweets Against a Key National Security Priority
President Trump tweeted lies against his own intelligence community in the course of signaling opposition to a legislative priority of his own administration on a crucial national security priority at an... -
FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Resource Page
Last month, Congress extended the Dec. 31 deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act until Jan. 19. With 10 days to go and an expected flurry of legislative activity before a final bi... -
Summary: U.K. Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report
On Dec. 20, the U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee issued its annual report. -
New Approaches to Intelligence Oversight in the U.K.
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The Year in Review: FISA Section 702
Lawfare carried comprehensive coverage of this year’s developments in the lead up to the Dec. 31, 2017 reauthorization deadline for Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (along with the other provisions... -
The Lawfare Podcast: What the Heck is Up with 702?
As the year is coming to a close, Congress has now missed the deadline for reauthorizing FISA Section 702. Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in Governance Studies and expert on Congress, joined Benjamin... -
Congress Buys Itself Another Three Weeks on Section 702
On Dec. 21, the House and Senate voted 238-188 and 66-32, respectively, to pass a concurring resolution extending government funding until Jan. 19, 2018. One provision of that bill extended the FISA Amen... -
‘Pressure Techniques’ and Oversight of Shin Bet Interrogations: Abu Gosh v. Attorney General
Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision concerning one of the most sensitive areas of counterterrorism policy and practice. The decision considered so-called “pressure techniques” the Is...
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