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That's the gist of this Politico report, which adds new details about congressional oversight and the FISC order directed at metadata for Verizon customers' communications. Some members have expressed c...
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Over at The Week, Marc Ambinder shares the following from a senior government official regarding the leaked FISA Court order for Verizon.
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[See below for an important correction to this post]
I confess myself at a bit of a loss to understand the FISA Court order that Steve discussed earlier and that Glenn Greenwald disclosed at the Guardian.
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This story from Glenn Greenwald is pretty alarming--but it pales in comparison to the FISA Court's order itself, a copy of which is posted on the Guardian's website.
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In light of Jim Comey's reported selection as FBI director, this 2005 speech---published later in the Green Bag---is a matter of inherent interest. It's one of the things I'll be reading over the next fe...
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So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Editor's Note: below you'll find the third in a series of posts by David Kris on surveillance reform.
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Editor's Note: this is the second in a series of four posts by David Kris, on large-scale surveillance reform.
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Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of four posts, in which David S. Kris discusses the possibility of wide-ranging reform to U.S. surveillance law.
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The dictionary defines a "kris" as "a Malayan and Indonesian stabbing or slashing knife with a scalloped edge." On this site, however, The Way of the Kris is not some new Mark Mazzetti book about Obama a...
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The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications. The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ...
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Charlie Savage reported in the NYT today that the Obama administration “is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it e...