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How to Evaluate Whether the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program Makes Us Safer (and What Proponents and Opponents Get Wrong)
[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the…
Response to the Letter to the Editor from Amnesty International’s Legal Adviser
I appreciate the Letter to the Editor from Hugo Relva, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International responding to my earlier post, in which I questioned the coding procedures that Amnesty…
Letter to the Editor: Reply from Legal Adviser, Amnesty International to Ryan Goodman on Survey of Universal Jurisdiction
[Editor’s note: Ryan Goodman responds to this Letter to the Editor in a following post.] Dear Editor, I am writing with regard to the article “Counting Universal Jurisdiction…
How Limited is 702?
[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
Two Quick Reflections on Why al Maqaleh III Matters
Over at Lawfare, Raffaela Wakeman already flagged today’s (unsurprising) D.C. Circuit decision in al Maqaleh v. Hagel, once again dismissing for lack of jurisdiction appeals…
Happy Holidays from Just Security
For the upcoming holidays, Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule including the remainder of this week and the first half of next. We will have continued but reduced…
Data-Mining, Section 215, and Regulating the Government’s Use of Stored Data: The Overlooked, but More Important, Question About NSA Surveillance
[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
The Report of the UK Detainee Inquiry (December 2013)
On Thursday December 19, 2013, the long awaited Report of the Detainee Inquiry (“the Report”) was published. The subject of the Report was Britain’s involvement in US torture…
News Roundup and Notes: December 23, 2013
Today’s News Roundup and Notes will be our only Roundup for this week, as we are off for the remainder of this week for the Christmas holiday. From the entire Just Security…
Highlights of the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
Mini Forum on President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
The Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies is an exceptionally important development in the national debate over security and…
So Much for a New Drone Policy – Why Can’t the US Explain Why It Targeted a Wedding Party?
The New York Times has an important front-page story today by Mark Mazzetti and Robert Worth on last week’s drone strike in Yemen, which reportedly targeted a convoy of trucks…