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The Symbolic Sunset & What’s Next for the USA Freedom Act

Because the gods of traffic metrics are stern taskmasters, you’ll likely read a lot of headlines today about “the expiration of the Patriot Act,” possibly paired…
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Is Edward Snowden Engaged in Civil Disobedience? —A Response to Glennon

In his recent post, “Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?,” Michael Glennon takes on Edward Snowden’s critics who argue that the former contractor’s unwillingness to…
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Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the faculty on a…
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Security, Uncertainty, and the National Security Administration: The President Should Defend, Not Revise, Current NSA Procedures

The question of national security and its relationship to individual privacy has always provoked a challenge for persons with strong libertarian inclinations, who rightly embrace…
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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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