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For those of you who just can't get enough of debates featuring Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf, who appeared debating me on drones in this week's episode of the Lawfare Podcast. .
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This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U...
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Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story...
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In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ...
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The ACLU's Ben Wizner and Daniel Ellsberg vs. former CIA Director James Woolsey and Andrew McCarthy:
Snowden Was Justified from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv
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This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t...
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President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...
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Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g...
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The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN.
The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be:
The Honorable David M...
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Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ).
The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C
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One of the policy questions kicked to the DNI in PDD-28 was defining the permissible uses of bulk collection. Thanks to Thomas Earnest over at Just Security, I just noticed that the DNI has now done so.