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DOJ Releases Three Redacted FISC Telephone Metadata Orders
From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr site, we learn today that on Tuesday, the Department of Justice released three redacted primary orders of the Foreign Intelligence Survei... -
Civil Liberties Groups Write to White House, Express Concerns Over Intercept Story on NSA & FBI Surveillance
In response to today's Intercept story on NSA and FBI surveillance of Muslim Americans, a large coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups have written to the White House---and, among other thi... -
DNI and DOJ on Today's Intercept Story
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department together said this today, apparently in response to an earlier Intercept story on FBI and NSA surveillance of Muslim America... -
Snowden and Civil Liberties: A Brief Follow-Up
Yesterday, I posted a short piece saying that we should think about Edward Snowden's leak of large volumes of personal communications to the Washington Post as a significant civil liberties violation. In... -
On Glenn Greenwald's Latest
After a huge amount of pre-publication hype, Glenn Greenwald's new capstone NSA story is out, and I find myself with little to say about it. Greenwald has gotten his hands on a spreadsheet listing the e... -
Edward Snowden: Civil Liberties Violator
A government contractor steals tens of thousands of highly-sensitive communications intercepts. The communications have national security implications, yes, but put that aside for now. They also involve ... -
The PCLOB on Human Rights & 702: Punt or Long Game?
One of the most eagerly awaited aspects of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ("PCLOB") report on section 702 surveillance was how the PCLOB would treat human rights issues. In January, 201... -
Pre-Release PCLOB Report on Section 702 of FISA
Here is a "pre-release" version of the report; the PCLOB will adopt a final version at its meeting tomorrow morning. It therefore has offered the still-not-yet-official document to the press and public,... -
Privacy and Civil Liberties Board to Issue 702 Report on . . . 7/02
Get it? Actually, I don't think they did either. It's a cute coincidence. But at any rate, the PCLOB has announced that it will be releasing its report on FISA 702 collection this evening at 9:00 pm: The... -
Pre-Abu Khattala: Yunis, That 1987 Shipboard Terrorist Interrogation Case
Ahmed Abu Khattala is not the first person to be whisked onto a ship in the Middle East by U.S. forces, interrogated aboard, and then dropped in a U.S. court. There are some recent famous cases, of cours... -
Court Demands New Procedures for Challenging No-Fly List Determinations
As Wells noted a few days ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon issued an opinion this week in Latif v. Holder, which held unconstitutional certain redress procedures for individuals on... -
Readings: Civilian Intelligence Agencies and the Use of Armed Drones by Ian Henderson
Footnote 44 of the recently released and much-discussed OLC Awlaki memorandum is heavily redacted, but what's left reads, in part: Nor would the fact that CIA personnel would be involved in the operat...
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