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Video of Today's Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing
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September 26 Senate Committee Hearing on FISA: Witness Testimony
Below you'll find links to all the prepared testimony associated with today's open hearing, a rarity, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Panel I (joint statement) Director of National... -
My Statement Today Before the Senate Intelligence Committee
The following is my my prepared statement for today's hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. -
The NSA Crypto Back Door(?)
By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by... -
"Just Security" Launch Event Webcast
The official launch event for the new site Just Security is taking place at this hour with an event entitled, "When Reporting is a Crime: National Security and the Press After Snowden and Sterling." The ... -
A Lighter Side of the NSA Mess
The other day, I was driving down Massachusetts Avenue talking on my car's speaker phone system to Rajesh De, general counsel of the National Security Agency. Raj had called me on my Google Voice phone n... -
An Alternative to Rep. Schiff's Proposal for a FISA Special Advocate
On September 20th, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, proposed legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... -
Constitution Day Event at Georgetown on Surveillance Law
I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era." The panel, composed of Geor... -
Alexander and Inglis Letter to the “NSA/CSS Family,” and the USG's Unconscionably Weak Defense of NSA
Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has a copy of a two-page letter from NSA Director Gen. -
Congress is Still Naked
Our piece last night summarizing the just-released FISC opinion on Section 215 bulk metadata collection unleashed a storm of protest that caught us a little by surprise. -
Congress Has No Clothes: A Quick and Dirty Summary of the New FISC Opinion
Today’s release of two important FISC documents probably won’t generate the media frenzy that previous releases of NSA materials have sparked. As of this writing, the New York Times did not even have the... -
A New FISA Court Order Has Just Been Released
It is available here. It is dated August 29 and includes a "primary order" dated July 19. It deals with the legality of the telephony metadata program under Section 215. I have not read it yet but will d...
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