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The following is my my prepared statement for today's hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Over the past week, we have both spent a fair bit of time at NSA and engaging with the agency.
On Monday, Bobby helped arrange for a small group of scholars to spend the day at the agency, meeting with ...
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By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by...
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The official launch event for the new site Just Security is taking place at this hour with an event entitled, "When Reporting is a Crime: National Security and the Press After Snowden and Sterling." The ...
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On September 20th, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, proposed legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...
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I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era."
The panel, composed of Geor...
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That's the sum and substance of this Washington Post piece, which begins:
A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national de...
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A historic marker titled "Nuclear Mishap" welcomes visitors to Eureka, North Carolina, population 200. The text reads: "B-52 transporting two nuclear bombs crashed. Jan. 1961. Widespread disaster averted...
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Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has a copy of a two-page letter from NSA Director Gen.
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Our piece last night summarizing the just-released FISC opinion on Section 215 bulk metadata collection unleashed a storm of protest that caught us a little by surprise.
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Today’s release of two important FISC documents probably won’t generate the media frenzy that previous releases of NSA materials have sparked. As of this writing, the New York Times did not even have the...
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It is available here. It is dated August 29 and includes a "primary order" dated July 19. It deals with the legality of the telephony metadata program under Section 215. I have not read it yet but will d...