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A law the government cites as authority for the bulk collection of millions of Americans’ communications records---Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act---expires unless Congress extends it by Memorial Day week...
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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.
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The Washington Post and Newsweek report that the CIA in 2008 worked with Israel’s Mossad to kill Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s operations chief, in Damascus, Syria. The Post says that Mughniyah “had been ...
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Some key news from earlier in the week: The New York Times obtained two previously classified rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from May and August 2007. Authored by Judge Rog...
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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...
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has released an assessment of the status of each of the Board's 22 recommendations regarding Section 215 and Section 702 programs.
More information, inclu...
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To the long-running story of the CIA-SSCI dispute--and to its most recent chapter, regarding the conclusions of a CIA Accountability Review Board---we can add today's statement by Senator Dianne Feinstei...
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(Another) Russian Spy Ring Busted in New York City
Earlier today, the Department of Justice announced charges against a New York-based Russian spy ring. Although three defendants have been charged, only...
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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:
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Correspondence finds its way into your inbox, bearing the signature of the newly-installed Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Richard Burr.
His letter (per today's New York...
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On counterterrorism, the President's speech was a study in mismatches---as was apparent last night in at least two respects.
First: The address began with an odd intermix of statements related, on one h...
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In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new...