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Tenth Circuit Upholds Conviction On Evidence Gathered Under Section 702 of FISA
On Dec. 8, the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the conviction of an Uzbek immigrant that relied on information obtained through warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance. -
Military Jurors Urge Clemency for Guantanamo Detainee After Unprecedented Testimony on Torture
The letter urging clemency came after Khan last week became the first former prisoner at a black site to give an account of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques agents used to extract informat... -
The Sussmann Indictment, Human Source Handling, and the FBI’s Declining FISA Numbers
The prosecution of Michael Sussmann’s indictment may seem unconnected to the precipitous drop in the volume of the intelligence community’s use of complex investigative techniques. The two are, in fact, ... -
What the Inspector General’s Latest FISA Report Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
In light of the Inspector General’s latest report, how worried should we be about the state of the FISA process? -
Navy Engineer Charged With Attempting to Share Nuclear Submarine Secrets
For over a year, Jonathan Toebbe and Diana Toebbe allegedly sold information about the design of nuclear-powered warships to a person they believed to be a representative of a foreign government who turn... -
When Is a State Secret Not a Secret?
In oral argument in United States v. Zubaydah, the court seemed to take seriously the government’s invocation of the state secrets privilege to protect information that seems very much in the public doma... -
The FBI’s FISA Mess
The inspector general’s latest report on FISA implementation at the FBI is not as bad as it looks, but it’s not good either. -
Justice Department IG Releases Audit of FISA Procedures
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Fourth Circuit Rejects Wikimedia’s Suit Against the NSA on Secrecy Grounds
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, claimed that the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance program captures its international communications and is a violation of its First Amendment free-speech righ... -
Supreme Court to Hear State Secrets Case on FBI Surveillance
The court’s ruling in FBI v. Fazaga could have significant implications for future challenges to government surveillance under FISA and to the government’s use of the state secrets privilege. -
The Tel Aviv Plot
Newly declassified information reveals that a 2002 al-Qaeda attack in Israel was thwarted at the last minute. The plot was kept secret for nearly two decades. -
DNI Haines Asserts State Secrets Privilege in Civil Lawsuit Involving Saudi Arabia
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