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Twitter filed suit yesterday against Attorney General Eric Holder, the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, and the FBI in the District Court for the Northern Dist...
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In January 2014, the NSA’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Office (CLPO) was created. The CLPO was tasked with ensuring that civil liberties and privacy protection considerations are integrated into the NSA’...
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Last Friday plaintiffs (appellees/cross-appellants) in Klayman v. Obama filed their reply to the government's response and reply brief. The plaintiffs' new 38-page filing largely reiterates arguments fro...
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Speaking of National Security Letter (NSL) challenges: tomorrow morning Judges Ikuta, N. Randy Smith and Murguia of the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in In re National Security Letter, Under Seal...
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As Benjamin Bissell noted a few days ago, Hong Kong protestors have developed some interesting ways of trying to avoid Chinese repression, including the use of an app, FireChat, that allows them to commu...
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A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re...
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Permit me a small amount of self-promotion, with apologies. But ABA Publishing has, today, released a new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, of which I...
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Cato Institute scholar Julian Sanchez has this lengthy interview with a podcast called Free Thoughts from libertarianism.org on the NSA controversies.
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Last week---and in a somewhat unusual development---the Department of Justice filed a motion to intervene, stay, and dismiss a private lawsuit against a non-profit organization, citing the state secrets ...
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[Cross-Posted at Just Security]
Last week Congress approved, and the President signed, legislation that authorizes the Secretary of Defense (see section 149) to "provide assistance, including training,...
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I was at the National Security Agency yesterday giving a Constitution Day speech and I learned details of a shocking collection program: The government is bulk collecting all traffic on Twitter. Under a ...
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From yesterday’s Senate Arms Services Committee Hearing (at about the 2:23 mark):
Senator UDALL (NM): And my question to you has to do with – and this is all public information, but everybody's well awa...