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Nine to One, Baby, One in Nine: Surveillance by the Numbers

There’s a great deal of interesting material in this weekend’s big Washington Post story on collection of Internet communications under §702 of the FISA Amendments…
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Is Edward Snowden Engaged in Civil Disobedience? —A Response to Glennon

In his recent post, “Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?,” Michael Glennon takes on Edward Snowden’s critics who argue that the former contractor’s unwillingness to…
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Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment?

This is Secretary of State John Kerry’s answer, given May 28 on CBS This Morning: “He should man up, come back to the United States. If he has a complaint about what’s…
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Lavabit’s Owner Goes Public: His Legal Ordeal Makes For Bad Law

I’ve written several times here about the Department of Justice’s efforts to force secure email provider Lavabit to turn over its encryption keys. The DOJ wanted transactional…
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The So-Called Huawei Scandal and the Snowden Operation

We should spy on China. And Russia. And Iran. And plenty of other countries too. They are our political, diplomatic and economic competitors and enemies. And they spy on us. If…
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Debating “The Snowden Operation”: A Victory for Privacy Rights or for Russia?

A Debate between Edward Lucas, Senior Editor of The Economist and author of “The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster“ and Stephen Holmes,…
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Call for Debate Questions from Readers: Thursday’s Event on “The Snowden Operation” — Edward Lucas vs. Stephen Holmes

This Thursday Just Security along with NYU Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice will host an event entitled, Debating “The Snowden Operation”: A Victory…
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Who Watches the Watchers?–A Rejoinder to Steve Vladeck

I am grateful for Steve’s careful response to my post, “Democratic Platitudes,” which examined his original post, “Does Espionage Porn Make Us Stronger?” Having benefited…
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Miranda: Blame Parliament Before Blaming the Courts

In August 2013, David Miranda, partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was transiting through Heathrow, on his way from Germany to Brazil when he was detained and searched under…
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Espionage Porn and Democratic Platitudes: A Response to Rahul Sagar

I don’t have much to say in reply to Rahul Sagar’s thoughtful response to my January 23 post, “Does Espionage Porn Make Us Stronger?” Much of that is because,…
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Democratic Platitudes

[Editor’s Note: Stay tuned later today for a post from Steve Vladeck responding to this guest post by Rahul Sagar.] In a recent post “Does Espionage Porn Make Us Stronger?”…
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Information Cascades and Intelligence Oversight

Sen. Blumenthal opened a recent surveillance oversight hearing by hammering an important point from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s thorough report on the…
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