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Susan Landau has a new piece at Computing Now called Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations:
Did Snowden cause irreparable harm, or did he reveal facts that sho...
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Given Steve's critiques of my Monday post, both here and here, I thought it worth briefly clarifying a few points.
First, Steve somehow draws the conclusion that I am not interested in the legality of s...
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One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (...
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I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m...
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I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.
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As noted in the roundup, Lavabit is in the news again as one of two popular encrypted email services to shut down last Thursday. The company first made headlines back in July, when Edward Snowden used hi...
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The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill...
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President Obama was dead-on when he said the following in his August 9th press conference: "[P]robably what's a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and Cong...
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During his press conference today (transcript here), President Obama announced a quartet of reform initiatives meant to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of NSA activities and the FISA system, both ...
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President Obama is currently holding a press conference at which he is speaking on a range of Lawfare-relevant topics. He has announced, report the Washington Post and New York Times, proposals to reform...
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I was sufficiently puzzled by Charlie Savage's story yesterday about NSA email monitoring that I waited a day to write anything about it. I'm still pretty puzzled by it, so I'm going to use this post to ...
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Last Friday I asked how NSA Director Alexander’s claim that “we can audit the actions of our people 100%” was consistent with USG uncertainty about what Snowden stole and with its claims that it was “put...