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NYU School of Law Event: "'The Snowden Operation': A Victory for Privacy Rights or for Russia?"
NYU School of Law hosted a debate yesterday between Edward Lucas, Senior Editor of The Economist and author of The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster---which Ben reviewed... -
Intelligence Squared US Debate: "The President Has Constitutional Power To Target And Kill U.S. Citizens Abroad"
For the Motion: Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law Against the Motion: -
The SSCI Fracas and the CIA’s Duty to Make Criminal Referrals to DOJ
Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.) Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a... -
New FISC Order On Retention of Metadata
On Monday, we reported on the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California, which prohibited the government from destroying telephone metadata... -
Can the ICJ Avoid Saying Something on the Merits About Spying in Timor-Leste vs. Australia?
Last week Ben linked to the ICJ’s decision on provisional measures in the case that Timor-Leste (TL) has brought against Australia. The Brisbane Times and other news outlets cast the decision as one req... -
SSCI v. CIA---Three Key Questions
Senator Feinstein’s remarkable floor statement yesterday has thrown further fuel onto an already volatile mix of intelligence and oversight issues related to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s... -
Did the CIA Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by Accessing Intelligence Committee Computers?
Senator Feinstein recently claimed that the CIA may have violated the federal computer hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, by searching computers used by the Intelligence Committee to cond... -
Text of Senator Feinstein's Remarks This Morning Regarding SSCI and CIA
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Senator Feinstein's Remarks on the CIA-SSCI Document Controversy
Right now, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman, is speaking out, on the Senate floor, about a well-publicized dispute between the CIA and the SSCI---regarding the latte... -
District Court in California Contradicts FISC, Orders Government to Preserve Metadata
Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from destroying call record metadata in the 215 ... -
NSA Responds to ABA Letter on Attorney-Client Privilege
Last month, the American Bar Association wrote to General Keith Alexander to express concern over press reports that overseas snooping by U.S. allies had intercepted communications by U.S. lawyers and th... -
FISC Rejects Government's Request to Retain Metadata Beyond Five Years
FISC Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton yesterday rejected the government's request to retain telephony metadata beyond five years. On January 3, 2014, the FISC approved the government's request to collec...
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