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Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Community’s 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessment
Last week Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released the 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community and testified about it before the Senate…
The Torture Convention & Appendix M of the Army Field Manual on Interrogations
We are on the eve of the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program. Although this report will…
Executive Order 12333 and the Golden Number
I recently moderated a debate between Professor Nathan Sales of Syracuse Law, Professor Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, Bob Litt, general counsel of the Office of the Director…
Confusion on the scope of IC Directive 119–Is it principally about classified or nonclassified information?
In the past couple of days, Steve and I have offered views on the constitutionality of the new Intelligence Community Directive 119 — which, broadly speaking, prohibits employees…
A more equivocal take on the constitutionality of the DNI’s Directive 119
In a post yesterday, Steve concluded that the DNI’s new Directive 119 — which, broadly speaking, prohibits employees of the Intelligence Community from unauthorized…
Intelligence Community Directive 119 and the First Amendment
As the inestimable Steve Aftergood noted last week over at Secrecy News, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has issued a new “Intelligence Community Directive”…