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Over at the New York Times, Charlie Savage has a good story about civil libertarian irritation over the latest version of the "USA FREEDOM Act," H.R. 3361---which he has also posted.
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For those who haven’t been following super-closely, the Manager’s Amendment to H.R. 3361—the USA FREEDOM Act—is now slated to be considered by the full House of Representatives in the coming days.
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A group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a Statement of Principles for rebuilding trust in intelligence activities. It is signed by the following people:
Charle...
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IC on the Record has the latest document dump:
Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released, in redacted form, a previously classified series of Foreig...
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The best review I have seen of Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is by David Cole in the Washington Post, who concludes:
This is an important and illuminating book.
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I recently posted a new draft article on FISA reform, A Rule of Lenity for National Security Surveillance Law, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here's the abstract:
This essay argues that Congr...
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On Friday I said that on a quick read, the Obama administration’s new pre-publication review policy seemed "overbroad to the point of practically unenforceable.” Friday afternoon, as Marty Lederman not...
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Charlie Savage reports:
The Obama administration is clamping down on a technique that government officials have long used to join in public discussions of well-known but technically still-secret informat...
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IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents:
DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...
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The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv...
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A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis...
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Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ...