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New York Times on FISA---and Orin Kerr on the New York Times
Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation... -
DNI James Clapper's Letter Apologizing to Congress
The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available.... -
Spying on Allies
The emerging controversy about the USG spying on European allies brings to mind the ECHELON controversy a dozen years ago. (FAS has a page that collects information on ECHELON.) ECHELON was a signals i... -
CFR Interview on "Extraditing Edward Snowden"
I'm the subject of today's installment of the Council on Foreign Relations' otherwise excellent "Interviews" series--an effort to distill the nuances of hot-button legal issues for a more diverse audienc... -
How It Looked Then: Edward Levi's 1975 Take on Security, Secrecy, and Accountability
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Full Video of ABA Panel on NSA Surveillance at the Newseum
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Google and Microsoft Want to Tell Us How Often they Get FISA Orders and FAA Directives: Why Not Let Them?
A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho... -
NSA Factsheets Taken Down---For Reasons of Accuracy
This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li... -
ABA Standing Committee Event on NSA Surveillance and Leaks
This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction." The event will be hos... -
Philip Bobbitt on the Snowden Affair
Philip Bobbitt (Columbia Law School, and the author of, among many other things, Terror and Consent) writes in: Three thoughts on the Snowden matter. First, Snowden's strongest point: how can the govern... -
Another Take on the Targeting and Minimization Procedures
Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take. -
The Minimization and Targeting Procedures: An Analysis
Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.
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