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Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has a copy of a two-page letter from NSA Director Gen.
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Our piece last night summarizing the just-released FISC opinion on Section 215 bulk metadata collection unleashed a storm of protest that caught us a little by surprise.
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Today’s release of two important FISC documents probably won’t generate the media frenzy that previous releases of NSA materials have sparked. As of this writing, the New York Times did not even have the...
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It is available here. It is dated August 29 and includes a "primary order" dated July 19. It deals with the legality of the telephony metadata program under Section 215. I have not read it yet but will d...
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We are doing an experiment on Thursday with the West LegalEdcenter: A lunchtime educational webcast entitled: "The NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?"
In our readership survey earlier this yea...
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Next came a period of relative calm, and somewhat less wrist-slappy FISC-NSA dynamics. The respite nevertheless was short-lived, judging by the final three documents in this week’s trove of declassified...
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That is the gist of this unclassified FISC opinion, penned by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, today. It resolves a motion, which was brought by the ACLU's national and Washington, D.C.
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Shane Harris has a long piece in FP about NSA Director Keith Alexander entitled The Cowboy of the NSA. Harris shows, with nice detail and color, how Alexander has engaged for years in an all-out drive t...
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This is speculation. I have no hard facts or evidence to support it. But I am convinced to a moral certainty that NSA is scaling back certain collection.
That is not something I say with pleasure or tri...
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The latest installment in the NSA declassification story comprises five documents. The first is an internal NSA compliance review; the second is a court filing regarding that review. The latter also re...
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The next key date in the metadata saga was February 26, 2009---that is, about a month after the government initially had apprised the court of a violation of the its procedures for querying collected met...
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On February 12, 2009, the government submitted a 28-page brief and 93 pages of supporting documentation to the FISC in response to the court’s January 28, 2009 order. The brief opens with two clear conce...