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Chapter VII of the Review Group report is, for the most part, vaporous.
It deals with, as its title puts it, "Global Communications Technology: Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networke...
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One hears that the worst of the Snowden documents (from the perspective of the USG) have not yet been released, and one wonders what that might mean. Yesterday’s story that “most of the documents he too...
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FBI Director Jim Comey spoke out today against the Review Group recommendations for judicial review of national security letters, reports the New York Times:
James B.
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I have a suggestion for solving nearly all of NSA’s problems: A click-through agreement.
A peculiarity of the NSA data collection controversy is that the US public, we are told, is outraged by NSA activ...
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Chapter VI of the Review Group Report deals with proposed organizational changes at NSA, in the executive branch more broadly, and in the FISA court system. These changes are a pretty mixed bag. Some see...
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Benjamin Wittes, in his post Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part IV, questioned Recommendation #14 of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Commu...
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Two important releases showed up on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr on Friday.
First, the General Counsel for the ODNI, Bob Litt, responded to the New York Times Edward Snow...
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Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA...
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Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ...
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Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15.
Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw...
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No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v.
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Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ...