DOJ Declassifies Memos On Domestic Surveillance Program
The Department of Justice recently released two Office of Legal Counsel opinions by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith from 2004. The first memo provides a lengthy and at times heavily-redacted justification for the National Security Agency's STELLAR WIND program---a suite of domestic surveillance authorities that began in the Bush administration.
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The Department of Justice recently released two Office of Legal Counsel opinions by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith from 2004. The first memo provides a lengthy and at times heavily-redacted justification for the National Security Agency's STELLAR WIND program---a suite of domestic surveillance authorities that began in the Bush administration. The second, much shorter memo analyzes the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld for the legality of STELLAR WIND.
We will have a summary of these memos out soon, so stay tuned.
Matt Danzer is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review and served as president of the National Security Law Society. He also works as an editor for the Topic A public policy blogs on Roll Call. He graduated from Cornell University in 2012 with a B.S., with honors, in Industrial and Labor Relations.
