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We're back! Although we took a short holiday break, the national security world certainly did not, so we begin with the week's international news:
The United States is sending drones and equipment to Ir...
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With the release of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies reporters and commentators have scrambled to make sense of the 308 pages...
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After suggesting general reforms to both 215 collection and national security letters, the Review Group then turns to the subject of bulk metadata.
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The report of the President’s Review Group on NSA matters has already received widespread attention, some of it high altitude, some of it more granular. It’s an ambitious document, both conceptually and ...
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Published by W.W. Norton (2014)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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From the Financial Times:
Apology to His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa
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The President Review Group's ("PRG") Report, released last week, makes nearly four-dozen individual recommendations related to foreign intelligence surveillance, privacy, civil liberties oversight respon...
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This Christmas Eve opinion, authored by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson for a three-judge panel composed of Judge Thomas B. Griffith and Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, affirms the distri...
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...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for Christmas. Happy holidays to all!
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On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio...
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Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security. And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...
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On Saturday, I posted this piece in response to a particularly slimy blog post on The Nation's web site. The post dealt with Lawfare's relationship with the New Republic and the sponsorship of our joint ...
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At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr...
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On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence declassified eight documents related to NSA activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata.
The documents---all declarations by NSA offi...
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Surveillance first:
At President Obama's end-of-year press conference on Friday, he promised a "pretty definitive statement" on proposed NSA reforms after the holiday.
As we noted Friday, the latest Sno...
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a...
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I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ...
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The President answered press questions this afternoon on a variety of subjects, including NSA surveillance and Edward Snowden.
The Washington Post has a transcript, the most NSA-relevant bits of which I...
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The leadership of the Senate and House intelligence committees released a statement in response to the President's Review Group's findings.