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At Least One Copy of the Senate Torture Report Will Be Preserved. What About the Others?

White House Counsel Neil Eggleston’s recent announcement that President Barack Obama will archive at least one copy of the full Senate torture report under the Presidential Records…
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Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser

Last week, I criticized the confused rhetorical framework that the Feinstein-Burr encryption backdoor proposal tries to impose on the ongoing Crypto Wars 2.0 debate. In this…
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Here’s What the Burr-Feinstein Anti-Crypto Bill Gets Wrong

The latest Crypto War is being fought on multiple fronts: behind closed doors, in the courts, and now in Congress. On April 13, Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.),…
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No Torture Means No Torture – Why We Need the McCain-Feinstein Anti-Torture Amendment

Do we mean what we say when we ban torture? That has been a question for more than a decade, ever since President George W. Bush, on United Nations International Day in Support…
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Declassification of the CIA interrogation program: Developments on three fronts

Last month I published a post setting forth the state of play regarding the declassification and disclosure of the executive summary, and findings and conclusions, of the Senate…
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DiFi vs CIA

More than a few folks have commented on the irony of Sen. Dianne Feinstein—perhaps the most vigorous defender of NSA’s controversial surveillance programs—flipping into…
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Trick or Treat?: New FISA “Reform” Legislation Passes Senate Intelligence Committee

Earlier this week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed outrage that “the Senate Intelligence Committee was not satisfactorily informed” of the NSA’s surveillance…
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A “Hardy Perennial”: US Intelligence Operations Targeting Foreign Leaders

At Tuesday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, it is a “hardy perennial as long as I have been in the intelligence…
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