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Special Edition Podcast: Liza Goitein on Section 702’s Reauthorization
Amidst the noise today generated by President Donald Trump’s contradictory and inaccurate tweets about Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act this morning and his awful-yet-predictable…

Deep State Dissonance
U.S. National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers delivers remarks arguing for the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on October 13, 2017 in…

The House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 Bill is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Image: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, DNI Daniel Coats, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the…

Three Questions on the WannaCry Attribution to North Korea
President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a cabinet meeting at the White House on November 20, 2017, at which Trump officially designated…

The Supreme Court Should Heed Friendly Advice on Microsoft Ireland
President Trump meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC.…

The House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 Markup Was a Politicized Debacle
On Dec. 1, 2017, the House Intelligence Committee took the unusual step of holding an open markup of its bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Why Microsoft Challenged the Right Law: A Response to Orin Kerr
This coming spring, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the United States v. Microsoft – a case that will determine the authority of U.S. law enforcement to compel, via…

Hayden, NSA, and the Road to 9/11
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA (and now, a national security analyst at CNN), has recently emerged as a leading critic of the Trump administration,…

Warrantless Backdoor Searches are Not “Business as Usual”
This week, Just Security ran two posts, one by Matt Olsen and one by Asha Rangappa, defending the government’s warrantless access to Americans’ communications obtained “incidentally”…
Episode 47 of the National Security Law Podcast: Donuts and Depth Charges
And…we’re back! Fresh off of Thanksgiving, Professor Chesney and I are (all too) fired up to discuss the latest national security law news (not to mention a bunch of stuff…

What the White House Needs to Disclose about its Process for Revealing Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
At a series of events earlier in October, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce announced that he is preparing to release more information about the Vulnerabilities Equities…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (Oct. 21-27)
Russia Investigation and Facebook Ryan Goodman, Top Experts: Can Facebook Legally Disclose Russian Ads–What does the Stored Communications Act say? Artin Afkhami, Former Federal…