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The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1...
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Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent. Two additional data points strengthen his argument.
First, back in Ju...
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By now you've likely heard: the President will back a legislative proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata. And Congressmen Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersburger, the Chairman and R...
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This morning's press conference with President Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has just concluded. We've thus removed the embedded video player, and will await a transcript of the two leaders' remar...
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Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.
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That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...
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Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t...
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David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...
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This just in from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court---in the person of its Presiding Judge, Reggie Walton, and regarding data retention issues. These have arisen, of course, in light of the FIS...
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Edward Snowden gave a TED talk at TED2014:
After it, TED folks offered NSA a chance to respond---and Rick Ledgett, deputy director of the agency, showed up by video conference to answer questions:
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Here is the video for the PCLOB's day-long hearing yesterday on Section 702 surveillance. For some reason, they are not embeddable (Memo to CSPAN: grrrrrrr). But here they are: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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The Privacy an Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been holding a Public Hearing on the 702 program since 8.45am this morning. Witnesses (and links to written testimony) are listed below:
Panel I: Gover...