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FISC Approves Application to Renew Telephony Metadata Program [UPDATED]

Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified and announced that the FISC has approved the government’s application to renew the telephony metadata…
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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…
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Very Summary Account of Judge Pauley’s Opinion on the 215 Telephony Metadata Program

I’ll defer to others for substantive analysis of Judge Pauley’s opinion.  To facilitate discussion, however, here is a very abbreviated roadmap of his holdings, based…
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Judge Pauley (SDNY) Rules NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Program is Constitutional

Earlier this month, Judge Leon (D.D.C.)  issued a ruling enjoining the NSA metadata program under Section 215 (and then staying his decision pending appeal), noting that the…
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Transcript of Oral Argument in ACLU v. Clapper

We’ve finally got a transcript from the Nov. 22 hearing in ACLU v. Clapper, the ACLU’s challenge to the NSA’s mass call-tracking program.  The transcript is here.  Particularly…
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Dahlia Lithwick and Me on Why Metadata Matters

I suspect we’ll have a lot more to say about today’s oral argument in New York in the ACLU’s challenge to the government’s “telephony metadata”…
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Hearing in Another Surveillance Challenge Today

In previous posts I’ve discussed filings in the two most prominent challenges to the government’s “Telephony Records Program.”  Things are moving along…
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The Basis for the NSA’s Call-Tracking Program Has Disappeared, If It Ever Existed [Updated]

There’s a significant discrepancy, one that deserves more attention, between what the NSA told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court five years ago about the call-tracking…
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Latest Round of Briefing in ACLU v. Clapper “Telephony Records Program” Case

The ACLU and the Government filed their reply briefs today on their respective motions in the Section 215 “Telephony Records Program” litigation in the Southern District…
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