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DNI Report on Signals Intelligence Reform
Today's document details the implementation of reforms that the President announced a little more than a year ago. For background on the directive, Lisa Monaco's statement from the White House is here. -
<em>al-Nashiri</em> Argument Preview: The CMCR's Appointments Clause Problem
Next Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. -
National Security Issues Discussed at Yesterday's AG Confirmation Hearing
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the first of two day-long hearings on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General of the United States. -
The Intercept's Invitation to Criminality---and to Intelligence Agencies
The Intercept posted an interesting document yesterday designed to help a certain class of would-be-criminals---leakers of classified information---but which will, I would imagine, interest a different g... -
Harvard Event with Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden
On Friday, the former spoke by videolink with the latter, about (unsurprisingly enough) surveillance, privacy and data security. Youtube has a video of their discussion: -
The NRC's Bulk Collection Report: a High-Level Overview
Last week, Wells noted the release of an important, 85-page report by the National Research Council. (Yesterday, Herb Lin added his thoughts about it.) Broadly, Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: T... -
National Academies Report on Bulk Signals Intelligence
On January 15, 2015, the National Research Council released a report entitled Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options. -
Reactions to NYT Story on North Korean Cyber Penetration
David Sanger and Martin Fackler write in the NYT that the NSA “drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Kor... -
New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp... -
There is Nothing Wrong with Comey Criticizing the NYT
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NRC Study on (The Lack of) Software-Based Replacements for Bulk Collection
Scientific Computing had this news yesterday, about the important DNI-ordered study from the National Research Council: WASHINGTON, DC — No software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection ... -
Text of Senator Ayotte's GTMO Transfers Bill
As promised, here it is. The rather unfortunate-seeming proposal provides, in full: 114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S.__ To extend and enhance prohibitions and limitations with respect to the transfer or re...
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