Searchable Database of NSA Documents

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April 4, 2014

Some Just Security readers will be interested to know that the ACLU has just launched a text-searchable database of NSA documents released since June of 2013. The database is here. 

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Jameel Jaffer

Founding Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Former Deputy Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy, Author of The Drone Memos, Follow him on Twitter (@JameelJaffer).

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