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Speaking of agency general counsels (as I did in my post yesterday morning about the appointment of Jim Baker as FBI General Counsel), many foreign governments are wondering when President Obama will nom...
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Late last year, as one of the fall outs from the Snowden disclosures, the NSA announced its intention to fill a completely new office -- a civil liberties and privacy officer who would serve as a direct ...
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What harm has Edward Snowden done to his country?
When Snowden asserts that the National Security Agency listens to encrypted Russian diplomatic traffic, it takes the Russians about twenty minutes to sh...
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Don't want to read the entire 230+ page report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 215? Have better things to do with your weekend, but still want to know what's happening? Th...
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Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald.
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As The New York Times and Washington Post reported, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is going to issue a report on section 215 of FISA and the te
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Here it is, via Ars Technica.
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I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l...
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Meanwhile, Verizon today became the first major telecommunications company to issue a transparency report about its interactions with the government when data about user activity is sought.
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast discussion organized by the National Constitution Center on NSA, the President's speech on Friday, and the Review Group report. My interlocutor was Pe...
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That's the mixed message of this new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press, which also suggests---among other things---that President Obama's speech is not resonating all that much with t...