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The NSA Documents, Part IV: The September 2012 FISC Opinion
The one major remaining issue after Judge Bates’s November 2011 opinion involved what to with communications transactions acquired under the old minimization procedures, which Judge Bates had struck down... -
The NSA Documents, Part III: The November 2011 FISC Opinion
The government acted swiftly in response to Judge John D. Bates’s October 3, 2011 opinion. While it contemplated an appeal, it did not bring one. Instead, it adopted a series of alterations to the NSA’s ... -
The NSA Documents, Part II: The October 2011 FISC Opinion
The document that will surely capture the lion’s share of the public’s attention---and rightly so---is the October 3, 2011 FISC opinion by Judge John D. Bates, then the presiding judge of the FISC. -
The NSA Documents, Part I: Introduction
Rather than starting with what I---or anyone else---think and believe about the remarkable cache of documents the intelligence community declassified yesterday, I thought we should begin with a detailed ... -
Declassified Intelligence Community Documents
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is declassifying a large group of important documents pertaining to NSA surveillance programs under Section 702 of FISA. I will keep updating this list... -
South-by-Southwest Interactive Workshop on Surveillance, Technology, and Privacy
In connection with the annual South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference here in Austin, UT’s Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law has proposed a nifty event focused on the ... -
The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration
I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t... -
Washington Post on Privacy Violations and Illegal Surveillance by the NSA
Over at the Washington Post, Barton Gellman has a Snowden-sourced piece revealing that the NSA "has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress gra... -
Susan Landau on Snowden's Revelations
Susan Landau has a new piece at Computing Now called Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations: Did Snowden cause irreparable harm, or did he reveal facts that sho... -
A Brief Reply to Steve
Given Steve's critiques of my Monday post, both here and here, I thought it worth briefly clarifying a few points. First, Steve somehow draws the conclusion that I am not interested in the legality of s... -
The Snowden Revelations and Cybersecurity
One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (... -
Legitimacy, Legality, and Ben's "Muddled Middle Ground" on FISA
I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m...
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