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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Approves New Targeting and Minimization Procedures: A Summary
As Lawfare readers are likely aware, last Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a trove of documents relating to FISA targeting and minimization procedures. -
Office of Director of National Intelligence Releases FISA Section 702 Documents
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released several sets of documents relating to FISA Section 702. The documents are too numerous to embed in this post, but are linked below by cate... -
The Macron Leaks: Are They Real, and Is It Russia?
French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has a lot on his mind as he prepares to assume office. One topic we can be sure he’s thinking about: what to do about the dumping of various of his campaign documen... -
ODNI's 2016 Transparency Report: A Summary
On Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its fourth Annual Statistical Transparency Report relating to the use of national security authorities. The report is based... -
Former Guantanamo Detainee Petitions for Certiorari Seeking Redress for Alleged Torture
In late 2002, Afghan officials arrested Mohammed Jawad and transferred him to American officials. During his six-year stay at Guantanamo, Jawad alleges that he was tortured. Upon being released from fede... -
Today’s Big News About “Backdoor Searches”
One of the most hotly debated aspects of Section 702 is the practice of querying 702-acquired data using U.S.-person identifiers—in particular, queries conducted by the FBI in non-national-security crimi... -
Director of National Intelligence Releases 2016 Transparency Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its annual transparency report regarding use of national security authorities for calendar year 2016, available here and below. Lawfare wi... -
The End of “About” Collection under Section 702
As Bobby and others have already noted, the NSA announced Friday that it is ending “about” collection under Section 702’s upstream component. -
Can NSA Drop "About" Collection Without Gutting "To/From" Collection?
The mystery as to why there was no Section 702 application or certification reported for 2016 has now been solved (I'm assuming readers know today's big 702 news, flagged by Quinta here, and as explored ... -
NSA Stops "About" Collection
According to a New York Times report by Charlie Savage, the National Security Agency is ceasing to conduct "about" collection under Section 702 due to difficulty in complying with regulations imposed by ... -
Will the United States Be Able to Extradite Assange?
Late last week, CNN reported that the Justice Department is close to bringing criminal charges against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks and a longtime resident of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London... -
Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?
There's something going on inside the intelligence communities in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it is. Consider these three data points. One: someone, probably a country's intelligenc...
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