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Sen. McConnell Moves for a "Clean" 215 Reauthorization
This actually happened last week, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced and fast-tracked a bill (S. 1035) to extend through the year 2019 three USA Patriot Act provisions set to expir... -
Waiving the "Imminent Threat" Test for CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan?
[Update: Ryan Goodman has an excellent post here noting that a January 2013 WaPo article anticipated that CIA would get a waiver for Pakistan ops, albeit not necessarily a waiver specific only to the imm... -
New York Times Gets Stellarwind IG Report Under FOIA
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The Continuing Democratization of QUANTUM Technology
From my book Data and Goliath: ...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose -
The Perils of Partial Official Acknowledgment
Yesterday the President acknowledged that the United States inadvertently killed an American citizen and an Italian citizen held hostage by al-Qaida. The killings, he said, took place during “a U.S. -
U.S. Drone Strike Reportedly Killed Two Hostages Held by Al-Qaeda, One American and One Italian, as well as an American Al-Qaeda Member
Breaking news from the New York Times: The White House acknowledged on Thursday that two hostages held by Al Qaeda were accidentally killed in an American government counterterrorism -
More Arrests of Americans Attempting to Fight for ISIL in Syria
Six Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area have been arrested on material support charges, based on allegations that they were attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIL. The complaint and corresp... -
Keeping Track of the US Intelligence Community's Leakers
It's getting hard to keep track of the U.S. intelligence community leakers without a scorecard. -
"The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television," by Tricia Jenkins
Published by University of Texas Press (2013) Reviewed by Julius Taranto -
U.S. Support for the Saudi Air Campaign in Yemen: The Legal Issues
For the past couple of weeks, a Saudi-led coalition has been engaged in a substantial air campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen. -
Open Society Justice Initiative Issues New Report on U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) has released a new report that documents civilian casualties caused by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. -
On the FISA Court and "Rubber Stamping"
In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a ...
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