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Senate Judiciary Hearing on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
HAPPENING NOW: the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies (the PRGICT…
New Report Questions Value of Section 702 Warrantless Surveillance
Today over at the New America Foundation, researchers have published a paper examining the role of dragnet programs in the United States’ counterterrorism operations. The paper…
Connecting the Dots: Assessing the Effectiveness of Bulk Phone Records Collection
[Editor’s note: This morning we are enthusiastic to have the opportunity to publish on Just Security an extremely insightful and thoughtful paper on the effectiveness of…
10 Questions for the Review Group Members to Publicly Address at the Senate Hearings
The members of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies will appear on Tuesday, January 14th for hearings before the Senate Judiciary…
Table of Contents: Mini Forum on President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies [Updated]
Just Security has been holding a “mini forum” on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. The following list contains…
EU parliamentary committee’s preliminary report on NSA surveillance
A European Union parliamentary committee has published its preliminary conclusions as part of its inquiry into surveillance of EU citizens by the NSA as well as surveillance bodies…
Can We Do Without National Security Letters?
One of the more radical recommendations included in the report from President Obama’s Surveillance Review Group is the proposal to require judicial approval for National…
Version 4.0 – Do We Need A New Privacy and Civil Liberties Board?
One aspect of the President’s Review Group report on NSA surveillance that has gone relatively unnoticed is the recommendation that the current Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight…
Could the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program Have Prevented 9/11? Judge William Pauley v. Lawrence Wright
In an earlier post, I proposed some analytic tools for evaluating the effectiveness of the NSA’s telephony metadata program – in light of recommendations by the President’s…
OLC Memos and FOIA: Why the (b)(5) Exemption Matters
The headline of yesterday’s D.C. Circuit decision in Electronic Frontier Foundation v. Department of Justice, in which the Court of Appeals rejected a FOIA request for a…
Reactions to the New York Times and The Guardian Editorial Boards’ Call for Clemency for Snowden
As Ruchi covered this morning in the news roundup, today the editorial boards of the New York Times and The Guardian called on the Obama Administration to offer Edward Snowden…
Prediction: Fourth Amendment Evolves in 2014
When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contrary decisions about the constitutionality of government…