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Aftergood Responds to McNeal and Ambinder on the Significance of the Proposed...
Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News responds to the views of Greg McNeal and Marc Ambinder on the significance of proposed changes to FISC Rules of Procedure. Steve thinks the problem identified by Greg...
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The Foreign/Domestic Divide and the Legal Architecture of “Domestic...
Marc Ambinder reports that the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, gave his first speech as DNI on the subject of “domestic intelligence” (at an event on that topic sponsored by the...
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Congressional Oversight, Traditional Military Activities, and the UBL Operation
[See here for an updated analysis, after reading the original below] In the summer of 2009, the Wall Street Journal broke a story about (i) a never-consummated CIA plan to develop a capacity to use...
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Shane Harris on “Deep State” and Ragtime
Over at Washingtonian’s new Dead Drop blog, Shane Harris has this fascinating piece, mining a just-released book for new information about the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping activities. Here’s how it...
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The White Paper, the Public Authority Defense, and “Five Truths About the...
Earlier this week—at the Week, naturally enough—Marc Ambinder posted this piece, ”Five Truths about the Drone War.” Of the five, the second of Ambinder’s verities struck me as most noteworthy. I’ve...
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No More Drones For CIA
That is the title of Dan Klaidman’s important story: Three senior U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast that the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to...
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U.S. Government Talking Points on the Leaked FISA Court Order
Over at The Week, Marc Ambinder shares the following from a senior government official regarding the leaked FISA Court order for Verizon. These are, according to Ambinder, the official talking points...
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