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Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight. He maintains that...
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Sometime late today or perhaps tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on a proposed amendment to the Defense appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) and co-sponsored by...
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Last week, I posted these thoughts on the remaining mystery surrounding what the 2004 dispute that led to the famous hospital room showdown. I offered a couple of theories, based on Snowen-disclosed docu...
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Earlier this year I started an episodic feature on new technology and how it might impact national security. My first offering was on a life logging system known as Memoto. At the time, I noted some in...
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Bob Litt, general counsel to the DNI, is speaking at the Brookings Institution at this hour on "Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection." His prepared remarks ar...
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When the Verizon telephony metadata issue first broke, I posed the following question about the government's legal position:
Because we have only the order itself, not the application that underlies it, ...
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One of the most illuminating documents Edward Snowden has disclosed is this draft 2009 report by the NSA inspector general, which the Guardian released late last month.
The report, beyond the brief flur...
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The United States is pressing hard to get hold of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. But if and when Snowden is apprehended, what then? This question deserves attention, too, because the den...
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Available here.
This report is Attorney General Eric Holder's response to President Obama's order of a review of departmental policies with respect to the media.
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Imagine for a moment that the extended network around Lawfare were a terrorist organization. And imagine as welll that the NSA or the FBI wanted to use their now-very-public metadata analysis programs to...
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An Irish court rules on the subject---in response to U.S. requests for extradition help. The opinion is actually an interesting window into U.S. efforts to get countries to impede Snowden's travel. Botto...
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This strikes me as a big deal---a big shift in public attitudes on civil liberties and counter-terrorism. A new Quinnipiac poll shows a majority of Americans describing Edward Snowden as a whistle-blower...