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United States Stops Spying on Western Europe—for Now

The CIA has paused its espionage activities against “friendly governments in Western Europe,” according to a report by the Associated Press and ABC News that broke on Sept.…
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President Obama Will Seek to Curb (End?) Section 215 Bulk Collection

In a story being reported this evening by Charlie Savage of The New York Times, it appears that President Obama is preparing to announce a legislative proposal that will seek…
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How President Obama can fulfill his promise to end bulk collection of telephone metadata, while preserving intelligence capabilities

On January 17, President Obama promised to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of metadata on Americans’ phone calls under “section 215” (which is really…
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Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the faculty on a…
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Security, Uncertainty, and the National Security Administration: The President Should Defend, Not Revise, Current NSA Procedures

The question of national security and its relationship to individual privacy has always provoked a challenge for persons with strong libertarian inclinations, who rightly embrace…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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10 Questions for the Review Group Members to Publicly Address at the Senate Hearings

The members of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies will appear on Tuesday, January 14th for hearings before the Senate Judiciary…
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Table of Contents: Mini Forum on President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies [Updated]

Just Security has been holding a “mini forum” on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. The following list contains…
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