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Getting Intelligence Reform Right This Time: New Threats Bring New Opportunities

The United States’ belated realization that foreign powers can wreak havoc on the American political process is already prompting discussions of how to thwart future interference…

The Drip, Drip of Obstruction News

The news yesterday that Donald Trump asked the Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats, and the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael Rogers, to publicly…
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Important First Step by HPSCI on Pre-Publication Review Reform

Editor’s note: This post also appears on Lawfare. We are happy to learn, via Secrecy News, that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has weighed in constructively…
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ODNI’s Latest Guantánamo Reengagement Numbers Are Encouraging

Earlier this month, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its bi-annual assessment of the “reengagement” of released Guantánamo Bay detainees.…
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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”…
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Is the ODNI Approach to Secrecy and Transparency Evolving?

We flagged this yesterday afternoon on Just Security’s Twitter account, but nevertheless, it is helpful to include a reference here on the pages of the blog as well.  Yesterday,…
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Office of the DNI Releases List of Permissible Uses of Data Collected in Bulk

If you’ll recall last month, in conjunction with his January 17th speech on U.S. signals intelligence reform, President Obama issued Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28…
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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…
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