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The vote was 99-1, according to the Main Justice blog. The lone "nay" was Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).
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Very interesting post over at Huffington Post from Geoffrey Stone about his Review Group service, his changed view of NSA, and trust of the spy agency. Quite moving, actually. Writes Stone:
From the outs...
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The big news last week in NSA reform was the White House’s announcement of its plan to end the NSA’s metadata program, but it wasn’t the only news. The bipartisan leadership of the House Intelligence Com...
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Friday brought us three newly declassified FISC rulings.
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Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports that at last week’s Sources and Secrets conference, NYT reporter James Risen, who is fighting a subpoena for information in the Jeffrey Sterling trial, made these remark...
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The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1...
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Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent. Two additional data points strengthen his argument.
First, back in Ju...
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Further to my post yesterday, the administration has sent this letter to Congress in relation to the Uganda mission, using the usual "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" formulation.
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This morning's press conference with President Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has just concluded. We've thus removed the embedded video player, and will await a transcript of the two leaders' remar...
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Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.
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That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...