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Parsing Howard Nielson’s Sources: A Thesis Without Support

Image: Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) speaks with ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol…

Kushner’s Unsatisfactory Senate Document Production

The most incendiary part of a stinging letter from Senate Judiciary Committee leaders to Jared Kushner’s counsel, Abbe Lowell, is the committee’s disclosure that “other…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 18, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Sessions Changes his Story on Russian Contacts in Senate Testimony

On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions changed his story yet again about what he discussed with Russian officials during the 2016 election. While he initially denied having…

Q&A on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Decision to Subpoena Manafort

On Monday night, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to compel Paul Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump presidential campaign, to testify at a…
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ECPA Reform: A Primer

Last week, the Second Circuit heard oral argument in the Microsoft Ireland case (transcript). The dispute raises a number of pressing questions about the Electronic Communications…
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Passing the Senate Gavels

Editors’ Note: The following post is the tenth installment of a new feature, “Monday Reflections,” in which a different Just Security editor will take an in-depth look…
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Members of the PCLOB Testifying Before the Senate Judiciary Committee

This morning at 10:00am, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on “The Report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Reforms to the Section…
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Eight Questions PCLOB Should Ask About Section 702

Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent report concluding that…
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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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Can §215 Be Used for Content Collection?

At this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the National Security Agency’s surveillance authorities, Sen. Patrick Leahy posed a crucial question to the government’s…
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Tomorrow: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on “Continued Oversight of U.S. Government Surveillance Authorities” [UPDATED]

[UPDATE: This post has been updated with links to the written statements of each panelists and a link to a video replay of the full hearing.] Tomorrow at 2:00p.m., Just Security…
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