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DNI: FISC Reauthorizes Telephony Metadata Collection for 90 Days
Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper declassified the fact that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to extend the Nation... -
NSA Hacking of Cell Phone Networks
The Intercept has published an article---based on the Snowden documents---about AURORAGOLD, an NSA surveillance operation against cell phone network operators and standards bodies worldwide. This is not ... -
Smith v. Obama Oral Argument
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has live-streaming video of this morning's oral argument, in a challenge to the NSA's call records program. The live stream will get underway at ... -
ICC Prosecutor Advances Examination of U.S. Detention Policies in Afghanistan
As Professors Ryan Goodman and David Bosco have both noted in excellent posts at Just Security and Foreign Policy, respectively, over the past seven years, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Prosec... -
Senators Leahy and Cornyn on CIA's Proposed E-Mail Destruction Policy
Senators Patrick Leahy and John Cornyn yesterday joined other Senators in expressing concern over a CIA proposal regarding the destruction of agency E-mail. Their letter to the National Archives and Re... -
More on Passport Revocation and Temporary Exclusion: The New Counter-Terrorism Bill in the U.K.
The United Kingdom’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, HC Bill 127, had its first reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, November 26. -
Memo to NSA: Stop Saying You Apply the FIPPs
The intelligence community has no set of general principles for judging the privacy impact of their programs. Some privacy scholars believe that the Fair Information Protection Principles (FIPPs) serve ... -
A Quick Summary of Oral Argument in <em>In Re Directives</em>
Earlier this Fall I wrote about how certain materials from the In Re Directives litigation before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (“FISCR” or “Court”) had been declassified. -
Live Q&A Today with NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Director
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is hosting an "online, interactive" Q&A today with Rebecca Richards, the NSA's point person for civil liberties and privacy. Users can submit their que... -
A Modest Proposal: FAA Exclusivity for Collection Involving U.S. Technology Companies
I’ve been wrestling with an idea on electronic surveillance reform, and when I recently consulted with Benjamin Wittes about it, he encouraged me to post here and seek the feedback of Lawfare’s readershi... -
SSCI Leadership on Proposed Changes to CIA E-Mail Destruction Policy
A while back I noted certain 9/11 defense counsel's objections to a proposed change to the CIA's policy, regarding the destruction of CIA e-mails. In August, a federal bureaucracy charged with appraising... -
ODNI Releases Transcript from 2008 Protect America Act Litigation
On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a declassified oral argument transcript from critically important 2008 proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co...
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