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Keeping Track of the US Intelligence Community's Leakers
It's getting hard to keep track of the U.S. intelligence community leakers without a scorecard. -
Homeland Security Committee's Cyber Bill a Missed Opportunity
Today, the House Homeland Security Committee marked up a cybersecurity information sharing bill that promised to be “the best of bunch” in terms of civil liberties protections among the cybersecurity inf... -
On the FISA Court and "Rubber Stamping"
In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a ... -
Focusing on 702: A Brief Reply to the Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein and Faiza Patel
The Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein and Faiza Patel have posted a response to my post of last week challenging three of their recommendations in their recent report on the FISA Court. This post is a brief... -
PCLOB Takes on Executive Order 12333 Surveillance
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday had a public meeting yesterday to, as its web site describes it, "discuss and vote on a proposed plan for its review of counterterrorism activiti... -
Fixing the FISA Court by Fixing FISA: A Response to Carrie Cordero
Our friend Carrie Cordero has levied criticisms against three of the recommendations presented in our report, What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. We appreciate, as always, her constructive engagement wi... -
The Clock is Ticking on the 215 Sunset---And Why That Matters
Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound of time slipping away before the June 1 sunset of the Patriot Act 215 provision. We're now within two months of the sunset. Congress does not seem to be bestirring its... -
Two New FISA Court Judges Designated
From the FISC’s website: “The Chief Justice has designated Judge James P. Jones of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Thomas B. Russell of the United States ... -
John Oliver Interview with Edward Snowden
Some of it is very funny. And there's a very interesting discussion starting at 19:30 about how well he understood---and to what extent he read---the documents he disclosed. -
The Brennan Center Report on the FISA Court and Proposals for FISA Reform
As Wells noted when it first came out last month, the Brennan Center has a new report: What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. Despite the title, the report is really a condensed history of the Foreign Inte... -
Where are the Section 215 Cases -- and What Impact Will They Have?
Section 215, the law that has been interpreted to authorize the controversial bulk telephony metadata program, will sunset in about two months -- on June 1, 2015 -- unless Congress acts. The White House... -
The Power of Citizenship Bias
Following up on my post from last week on the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament, which inter alia recommended that British law for the first time introduce dist...
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