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Senators Leahy and Lee introduced a new version of the USA Freedom Act today to scale back surveillance authorities, including limiting the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act for bulk collection, ...
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Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Bob Litt says the NYT “disgraced itself” by “publishing an article in which it purported to name three covert CIA officers.” The article in question iden...
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Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article on congressional support for the C.I.A.'s drone program. In describing the program's leadership, the Times saw fit to reveal the identity of thre...
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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...
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[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...
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
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It's getting hard to keep track of the U.S. intelligence community leakers without a scorecard.
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Published by University of Texas Press (2013)
Reviewed by Julius Taranto
