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Since Edward Snowden unveiled the existence of NSA's mass surveillance programs in June, various government officials have gone on the record to claim that the programs have prevented terrorist attacks a...
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On Friday, President Obama is scheduled to announce his response to his Review Group on NSA matters, whose report I have been evaluating in this series of posts. The Review Group report covers a huge ran...
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I just came across this excellent article, "Tinker, Tailor, Leaker, Spy: The Future Costs of Mass Leaks," by David V.
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We come, at endlessly-long last, to the final set of recommendations in the Review Group report: the recommendations in Chapter VIII, which deal with "Protecting What We Do Collect."
I tend to agree wit...
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Did the government reveal the presence of US military advisors in Somalia in order to beat the Guardian or some other Snowden outlet to the punch?
Earlier today, Jack posted about the likelihood that th...
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Chapter VII of the Review Group report is, for the most part, vaporous.
It deals with, as its title puts it, "Global Communications Technology: Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networke...
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The Washington Post reports that Senator Paul “plans to introduce legislation to repeal the use-of-force resolution that paved the way for the Iraq war,” and notes that President Obama supports the repea...
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One hears that the worst of the Snowden documents (from the perspective of the USG) have not yet been released, and one wonders what that might mean. Yesterday’s story that “most of the documents he too...
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Chapter VI of the Review Group Report deals with proposed organizational changes at NSA, in the executive branch more broadly, and in the FISA court system. These changes are a pretty mixed bag. Some see...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing regarding several of President Obama's nominations, which include that of John Carlin, nominated for the position of Assistant Attorney Gener...
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Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA...
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Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ...