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What a Bunch of Babies!
Is it just me or is everyone being infantile about the fact that Russia bugged some US diplomatic communications. The State Department is reaching for the smelling salts because, gasp!, they're spying on... -
What Would Have Been Big News: The Daoud Disclosure Order
As Wells noted last week, there was a significant decision regarding FISA, in the Northern District of Illinois, on January 29th. In the case of United States v. Daoud, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman order... -
Video of Berkman Center Event: "Defending an Unowned Internet"
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WaPo on the Scope of NSA's Telephone Metadata Collection
This just in from the Post's Ellen Nakashima: The National Security Agency is collecting less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records because of an inabilit -
Thoughtful Write-Up of the Berkman Center Discussion
Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las... -
Yeah, but What Does Jameel Jaffer Really Think?
Here's his response, published at Just Security, to my post this morning about legal density and NSA: Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes is making excuses for the intelligence officials who’ve been saying th... -
World Wide Threat Assessment 2014
Last week, DNI Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give his annual World Wide Threat Assessment. Once again cyber leads the list of most significant threats -- ahead o... -
The Problem at the Heart of the NSA Disputes: Legal Density
An old friend of mine, a mathematician at an elite college, told me some time back that---while still a student---he or she had done some work for NSA and been greatly relieved by the strict assurance gi... -
A Conversation at the Berkman Center---And the Comments of Tim Berners-Lee
Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni... -
Judge Bates and a FISA "Special Advocate"
In the midst of the hubbub over the PRG and PCLOB reports and the President's speech, one of January's more interesting developments in the FISA reform conversation has largely gone unaddressed (albeit n... -
Today at 10am: A Boatload of Hearings on the Hill
Today at 10am, there will be a number of hearings that may be of interest to Lawfare readers: House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Examining Recommendations to Reform FISA Authorities." Link is here. T... -
Hasan Dindjer Takes a Look at the Parliamentary Legal Advice on GCHQ Surveillance
I met Hasan Dindjer last spring when Ken and I participated in a debate at the Oxford Union on drones. I normally pride myself on being the worst-dressed person in the room, but I was done up in an uncha...
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