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20 Senior Former CIA Officials Criticize NYT For Publishing Names of Covert Operatives
Twenty senior former CIA officials—including every CIA Director (including DCIs) dating back to William Webster (1987-91)—wrote a letter to the NYT to take issue with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet’s d... -
Matthew Waxman to be the New NSA General Counsel
Shane Harris breaks the fabulous news over at the Daily Beast: Matthew Waxman, a law professor and former senior national security official in the George W. -
On the Second Circuit's Section 215 Decision
The most interesting issue in the opinion concerns ratification of the FISC's interpretation of Section 215 by Congressional reauthorization of the Patriot Act. I think the decision boils down to a judg... -
The Increasing State Practice and Opinio Juris on Spying
Ben flagged today that the Germans have been caught out spying on friends and allies. What makes this a story is the way the Germans responded more than a year ago when Snowden’s leaks revealed that the ... -
The Full Glare of European Hypocrisy on Surveillance
In case you needed a refresher course on European hypocrisy on surveillance and data privacy, the New York Times today obliges with two stories over which the connoisseur of human folly ought really to p... -
"International Law in the U.S. Legal System, 2nd Edition," by Curtis A. Bradley
Published by Oxford UP (Paperback 2015) Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson -
Another Response to the New York Times Flap
An intelligence community reader writes in with the following response to my post this morning on Dean Baquet's interview with Jack: The issue is not [only] whether the true name and affiliation [of the ... -
DoD Announces Departure of General Counsel Stephen Preston
That's the news from the Pentagon this hour. Preston will step down from his position as General Counsel at the end of June to join the faculty at Yale Law School. The Defense Department released the fo... -
Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times Weighs In
The estimable Mark Mazzetti---the New York Times national security reporter who wrote the story over the weekend that prompted the outing-CIA-officers flap---writes in with the following note in response... -
A Thought on Dean Baquet's Comments to Jack
This morning, Jack published an interview he conducted yesterday with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet about the paper's decision the other day to publish the names of three covert CIA officers. -
This Morning's HASC NDAA Markup
A markup of the FY2016 defense bill---which includes, as per usual and among other things, provisions restricting transfers of Guantanamo detainees---will get underway at 10:00 a.m. at the House Armed Se... -
Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets, and More
On April 25, two days after President Obama announced that a U.S. drone strike accidentally killed two innocent hostages, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo published a story in the New York Times about congr...
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