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UK Court Rules against Alleged Pakistani Drone Victim (Noor Khan)
The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal has issued its judgment in Khan v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (full text). A Pakistani man brought a civil action…
POTUS’ view on who counts as Al Qaeda
David Remnick’s recent profile/interview of the President in the New Yorker reveals this telling view of how the Administration perceives the difference between core Al Qaeda…
Trials in Absentia Under International, Domestic and Lebanese Law
As a follow on to our backgrounder on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, one additional feature of the current proceedings is worthy of note: the trials are proceedings in absentia. …
Which Congressional NSA Reform Proposals Will the Obama Administration Now Support?
A lot of my reactions to yesterday’s surveillance reform speech by President Obama have already been captured by others, including David Cole in his thoughtful take over…
Gates v. Biden on Afghanistan: What the Media Coverage Doesn’t Tell You
Robert Gates’s Duty contains a more nuanced account of his discord with Joe Biden on Afghanistan policy than any coverage of the book that you have likely read, seen or heard.…
The Disconnect between Theory and Practice in Obama’s NSA Speech
I have a post on Foreign Policy arguing that there was a substantial disconnect between theory and practice in President Obama’s NSA speech yesterday. On the one hand, President…
Recap: A Guide to the Past Week’s Posts on Just Security (Jan. 11-17)
I. Surveillance and Data Collection Thomas Earnest, Friday Evening Document Dump: DNI Declassifies Host of Additional FISC Orders (Friday, Jan. 17) Thomas Earnest, Overview of…
Friday Evening Document Dump: DNI Declassifies Host of Additional FISC Orders
Late this afternoon, the DNI declassified two dozen FISC orders related to the collection and use of telephony metadata under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. In today’s…
Overview of Proposals to Reform Signals Intelligence Programs in Today’s Speech by the President
In today’s speech on Signals Intelligence Programs, President Obama outlined a number of “concrete and substantial reforms that [the] Administration intends to adopt…
President Obama Speaks on Intelligence Reforms [Updated with full text of speech]
Starting now, President Obama is delivering his highly anticipated speech addressing the proposed reforms to the U.S. intelligence programs recommended in the Report of the President’s…
Bulk Data Collection and the Mosaic Theory: A More Balanced Approach to Information
The pending challenges in ACLU v. Clapper and Klayman v. Obama (now on appeal before the Second Circuit and D.C. Circuit, respectively) raise the question of whether the mosaic…
News Roundup and Notes: January 17, 2014
The Just Security team will be off on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The News Roundup will be back on Tuesday morning. Here’s today’s news. Surveillance This…