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The following statement was issued by the DNI on Saturday:
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, DC 20511
June 8, 2013
Facts on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Se
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Ben Emmerson, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, issued the following statement on Friday following a visit t...
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I had some hesitancy writing this blog since so many of the writers at the Post are acquaintances. But it really must be said. By now, readers are familiar with the Post's story on the NSA Prism progra...
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You can't make this stuff up. The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh...
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This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day. It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE...
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Stephen C. Neff
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Amy J. Sennett
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The Lawfare Book Review is pleased to announce that this weekend, we are publishing not one but two reviews of John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press 2012; the ...
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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece...
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Among the questions raised by the yesterday's FISC story is this: what has the executive branch said to members of Congress, regarding the collection of Verizon customers' telephony metadata under Sectio...
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Like everyone else I've been following the breaking NSA stories. [And, as an aside, almost lost in the clutter is the Guardian's next revelation of PPD-20, the Administration's Top Secret cyber operatio...
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Happy(?) Friday. Buckle your seat belts, folks, because today's edition is a force to be reckoned with.
President Obama spent about 15 minutes earlier today speaking about the FISA Court order leak and ...
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[Editor's Note: Carrie Cordero is a frequent Lawfare guest poster, a former Justice Department official, and currently Director of National Security Studies at Georgetown University Law Center]
As some...
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The New York Times reports on President Obama’s first public comments on the NSA and FBI surveillance programs. Updated: Check out the C-SPAN video.
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The following roundup is a running list of pertinent statements and quotes from lawmakers in Congress on the FISA order calling for Verizon to turn over customers' phone records, as well as the news abou...
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The House Armed Services Committee was hard at work marking up the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year. We have a transcript of the debate over Democratic Congressman Adam Smi...
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Here it is. The full text---which addresses last night's data mining stories in the press---is as follows:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
The Guardian and The Washingto...
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ODNI has released a statement commenting on the Verizon story. It underscores my point just now about the importance of minimization procedures, but also reminds me that it is perhaps even more importan...
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Four comments on today's Washington Post story (and the Verizon story on domestic and foreign data collection):
First, today's Post story reminded me of this very interesting 2008 post from David Kris. ...