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The November NSA Trove VI: More Congressional Stuff
The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight. -
The November NSA Trove V: Congressional Stuff
Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now. -
The November NSA Trove IV: The Internet Metadata Collection Story Develops
Your latest dispatch from the November NSA Trove: a trio of judicial opinions on internet metadata acquired, in bulk, by means of pen register and trap-and-trace ("PR/TT") devices. (Recall that, in 2004... -
An Undertheorized Retrenchment
Back in September, I wrote the following: Imagine you were a high-level decision-maker in a clandestine intelligence agency. Imagine that you had played by the rules Congress had laid out for you, worked... -
The November NSA Trove III: More Details on the Bulk Telephony Metadata Program
Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ... -
The November NSA Trove II: Judge Kollar-Kotelly's Opinion on Internet Metadata
The NSA had come knocking. It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States. That request’s stagg... -
The November NSA Trove I: An Introduction
The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big. But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise; at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are... -
The Shameless Revisionism of James Sensenbrenner: Georgetown Law Center Edition
I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata ... -
Problems with the FISC's Newly-Declassified Opinion on Bulk Collection of Internet Metadata
Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute, -
Another FISA Document Dump from ODNI
This latest set of declassified documents is related to programs authorized by Sections 501 and 702 of FISA. -
Whose Fault is it if China and Iran Restrict Free Speech? NSA's---Of Course
That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,... -
Supreme Court Denies EPIC Mandamus Petition
The Supreme Court today denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center's request for mandamus review of telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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