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West LegalEdcenter Webcast: "The NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?"
We are doing an experiment on Thursday with the West LegalEdcenter: A lunchtime educational webcast entitled: "The NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?" In our readership survey earlier this yea... -
The Latest NSA Documents VI: Non-Compliance Redux, With More DOJ
Next came a period of relative calm, and somewhat less wrist-slappy FISC-NSA dynamics. The respite nevertheless was short-lived, judging by the final three documents in this week’s trove of declassified... -
New FISC Opinion: ACLU Has Standing to Seek 215 Opinions in FISC, Must Pursue Some 215 Opinions in FOIA Litigation; USG to Report on Declassification of Other 215 Opinions
That is the gist of this unclassified FISC opinion, penned by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, today. It resolves a motion, which was brought by the ACLU's national and Washington, D.C. -
Shane Harris on General Alexander
Shane Harris has a long piece in FP about NSA Director Keith Alexander entitled The Cowboy of the NSA. Harris shows, with nice detail and color, how Alexander has engaged for years in an all-out drive t... -
Recriminations, Pendulum Swings, and What is Probably Happening at NSA
This is speculation. I have no hard facts or evidence to support it. But I am convinced to a moral certainty that NSA is scaling back certain collection. That is not something I say with pleasure or tri... -
The Latest NSA Documents V: the NSA Investigates Its Metadata Compliance Problems, Takes Remedial Steps, and Reports Back to the FISC
The latest installment in the NSA declassification story comprises five documents. The first is an internal NSA compliance review; the second is a court filing regarding that review. The latter also re... -
The Latest NSA Documents IV: Things Get Worse
The next key date in the metadata saga was February 26, 2009---that is, about a month after the government initially had apprised the court of a violation of the its procedures for querying collected met... -
The Latest NSA Documents III: The Government Responds
On February 12, 2009, the government submitted a 28-page brief and 93 pages of supporting documentation to the FISC in response to the court’s January 28, 2009 order. The brief opens with two clear conce... -
The Latest NSA Documents II: The Crap Hits the Fan
The story starts in May 2006, when the FISA Court granted the FBI’s application for telecommunications companies to turn over certain “tangible things” to the NSA under Section 215. The “tangible things,... -
The Latest NSA Documents I: Introduction and the Entire Series
The latest cache of NSA documents---a group released yesterday related to errors in collection under Section 215---follows the same basic narrative pattern as the agency’s earlier release concerning impl... -
More NSA Surveillance Documents Declassified
Like its predecessor, this latest cache apparently was released in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. -
Ben, Me, and the Very Gray Area Between "Clearly Legal" and Lawlessness
[Updated (11:34 a.m.): Ben rightly points out to me that his reply does not use the phrases "clearly legal" or "settled," and so my use of quotation marks around those terms may convey the wrong impressi...
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