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Friday brought us three newly declassified FISC rulings.
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The document was released late yesterday afternoon. Here 'tis:
Earlier this year in a speech at the Department of Justice, President Obama announced a transition that would end the Section 215 bulk tele...
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The ACLU is declaring President Obama's announcement today of his proposal for reform of the 215 program "a major step in the right direction and a victory for privacy." Jameel Jaffer, writing over at Ju...
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Here it is, in full; an excerpt containing a sketch of the White House's proposed legislation is below.
Consistent with this directive, DOJ and the IC developed options designed to meet the criteria the ...
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Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports that at last week’s Sources and Secrets conference, NYT reporter James Risen, who is fighting a subpoena for information in the Jeffrey Sterling trial, made these remark...
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The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1...
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Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent. Two additional data points strengthen his argument.
First, back in Ju...
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By now you've likely heard: the President will back a legislative proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata. And Congressmen Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersburger, the Chairman and R...
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This morning's press conference with President Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has just concluded. We've thus removed the embedded video player, and will await a transcript of the two leaders' remar...
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Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.
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That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...
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Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t...