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Wells blogged on Monday about EPIC's new original filing in the Supreme Court, seeking mandamus, prohibition, or certiorari from the Justices to review Judge Vinson's now-leaked FISA Court order with reg...
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Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair. I now have Glenn Greenwald's response. Here's some of what he had to say:
Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi...
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This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...
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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper:
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...
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The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....
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The emerging controversy about the USG spying on European allies brings to mind the ECHELON controversy a dozen years ago. (FAS has a page that collects information on ECHELON.) ECHELON was a signals i...
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I'm the subject of today's installment of the Council on Foreign Relations' otherwise excellent "Interviews" series--an effort to distill the nuances of hot-button legal issues for a more diverse audienc...
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A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...
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This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting:
Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...