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Orin’s post from yesterday afternoon wonders whether the Leahy bill’s provision for “certification” of decisions by the FISA Court to the FISA Court of Review (and from there to the Supreme Court) violat...
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From the ITAR/TASS news---if you can call it that---agency:
MOSCOW, July 31. /ITAR-TASS/.
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Yesterday evening, Jodie Liu and I summarized Sen. Leahy's new FISA reform bill---which represents a legislative compromise between many of the major stakeholders in the NSA debate. One question we did n...
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I haven't waded much into the details of the various FISA reform proposals, but I find myself puzzled by the appellate review mechanism in the new Leahy bill on FISA reform.
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Below you'll find a compilation of public statements on Senator Patrick Leahy's new and improved USA Freedom Act, which he unveiled yesterday.
Suffice it to say: the reviews are generally positive, giv...
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As Wells reported this morning, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy unveiled his version of the NSA reform bill today. Leahy’s bill is important because, well, it’s not just Leahy’s bill. I...
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Here is Senator Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) proposal to restrict various forms of surveillance--which he is discussing, at this hour, on the Senate floor. We hope to post some analysis of the bill shortly.
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Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post reports that four U.S.
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Today’s Washington Post piece by Ellen Nakashima speaks of "going dark"---or the "growing gap between the government’s legal authority and its practical ability to capture communications." The article h...
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The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today handed down a pair of judgments in long-running human rights cases brought against Poland by two U.S. terrorism detainees---Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al Rahim...
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The New York Times the other day ran this story about an interview Edward Snowden gave to the Guardian in Moscow. The Guardian interview made a few waves because of Snowden's claim that NSA analysts pass...
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So reports the LA Times. Here's a short summary:
As part of the deal, the intelligence community agreed to a stricter definition of the search terms the NSA may use to seek data from telephone companies...