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The CIA’s Excuse: Hiding The Double Agents
Adam Goldman and Greg Miller offer the CIA’s excuse for removing documents from the SCIF where they had been made available to Senate Intelligence Committee staffers: they had to hide their double...
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Happy Birthday To Me, Mike Rogers Edition
I’m going to level with you all. Today is my birthday.And in honor of my birthday, apparently, two of my nemeses will shift their careers. At 3PM, Keith Alexander retires as Director of the NSA.And in...
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Neverending CIA Drone Story Is Actually About Outsourced Intelligence
On March 20, 2013, I wrote one of several stories calling bullshit on reports that CIA would get out of the drone business. Not only did John Brennan’s actions up to that point (as opposed to what had...
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Why Should Someone Who Authorized Due Process Free Executions Be A Judge,...
Yesterday, Rand Paul announced he would filibuster the nomination of First Circuit nominee David Baron until the Administration released the OLC memo authorizing the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, as...
View ArticleNo Protection For International Communications: Russ Feingold Warned Us
Both the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer and EFF have reviews of the government’s latest claims about Section 702. In response to challenges by two defendants, Mohamed Osman Mohamud and Jamshid Muhtorov, to the...
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Four Reasons USA Freedom Act Is Worse Than The Status Quo
In the post-HR 3361 passage press conference yesterday, Jerry Nadler suggested the only reason civil libertarians oppose the bill is because it does not go far enough.That is, at least in my case,...
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Verizon Counsel Speaks Out Against “Outsourcing” Intelligence
One of the concerns I’ve raised about HR 3361 — AKA USA Freedumber — regards who will do some of the data analysis that the NSA “data integrity analysts” currently do before the contact-chaining stage....
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Alan Grayson: Is Keith Alexander Selling Classified Information To The Banks?
I’ve been tracking Keith Alexander’s utterly predictable new gig, getting rich off of having drummed up cybersecurity concerns for the last several years, while at the same timeshacking up with the...
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No Matter What They Tell Us, USA Freedom Act Does Not Rein In The Spies
Honest. I started writing about this David Cole column asking, “Can Congress rein in the spies?” before John Brennan admitted that, contrary to his earlier assurances, his spooks actually had been...
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Time To Raze The CIA And Start Over
I well remember when Robert Grenier testified at Scooter Libby’s trial. His performance — and it, like most of the witness testimony — was a performance. But I was more intrigued by the response. Even...
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We Told You So
At least according to this snippet from WaPo, Jane Harman reported out after discussing war over “d’anjou pear salad and Chilean sea bass” that the President thinks he can rely on both his epistolary...
View ArticleConnecting The Dots On The CIA Torture Report
I want to pull several details of the HuffPo’s last two pieces on the CIA torture report together (kudos to HuffPo for stealing Ali Watkins from McClatchy).Tuesday’s story presents conflicting claims...
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If The NSA 'Won' The War In Iraq, Why Are We Still Losing It?
To Shane Harris’ misfortune, his book, @War, out today, came out on the same day that General Daniel Bolger’s book, Why We Lost, came out.That means Harris’ first excerpt, initially titled “How the NSA...
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Marcy Wheeler: Why I Don't Support The USA Freedom Act
Earlier today, Harry Reid filed for cloture for the USA Freedom Act. So Patrick Leahy’s reform for the phone dragnet will get a vote in the lame duck.As you may remember, I don’t support USAF. Here’s a...
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Some Torture Facts
At the request of some on Twitter, I’m bringing together a Twitter rant of some facts on torture here.1) Contrary to popular belief, torture was not authorized primarily by the OLC (Office of Legal...
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Obama Would Not — Cannot — Deem Any Activities Authorized By 'Gloves Come...
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero has what I’m sure he believes to be an out of the box op-ed in the NYT. In it, he calls on President Obama to issue pardons for all those who masterminded the...
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Verizon Counsel Speaks Out Against “Outsourcing” Intelligence
One of the concerns I’ve raised about HR 3361 — AKA USA Freedumber — regards who will do some of the data analysis that the NSA “data integrity analysts” currently do before the contact-chaining stage....
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Alan Grayson: Is Keith Alexander Selling Classified Information To The Banks?
I’ve been tracking Keith Alexander’s utterly predictable new gig, getting rich off of having drummed up cybersecurity concerns for the last several years, while at the same timeshacking up with the...
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No Matter What They Tell Us, USA Freedom Act Does Not Rein In The Spies
Honest. I started writing about this David Cole column asking, “Can Congress rein in the spies?” before John Brennan admitted that, contrary to his earlier assurances, his spooks actually had been...
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Time To Raze The CIA And Start Over
I well remember when Robert Grenier testified at Scooter Libby’s trial. His performance — and it, like most of the witness testimony — was a performance. But I was more intrigued by the response. Even...
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