National Security Agency (NSA)
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Jack Goldsmith on the “Front-Page Rule”
Highly recommended. As I explained earlier, I think this is a very important question going forward.
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…
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…
Changes to Export Control Arrangement Apply to Computer Exploits and More
Last month, changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (“Wassenaar Arrangement”) placed “zero-days,”…
Michael Morell: “There is Quite a Bit of Content in Metadata”
In case you missed it earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies…
Senate Judiciary Hearing on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
HAPPENING NOW: the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies (the PRGICT…
New Report Questions Value of Section 702 Warrantless Surveillance
Today over at the New America Foundation, researchers have published a paper examining the role of dragnet programs in the United States’ counterterrorism operations. The paper…
Connecting the Dots: Assessing the Effectiveness of Bulk Phone Records Collection
[Editor’s note: This morning we are enthusiastic to have the opportunity to publish on Just Security an extremely insightful and thoughtful paper on the effectiveness of…
NPR Interview with Retiring NSA Deputy Director John Inglis
John Inglis is retiring today from his post as the Deputy Director of the NSA. Before stepping down, he sat down with Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition,…