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The entire point of the Protect America Act and FISA Amendments Act was to provide a way for NSA to collect data from Yahoo and Google without stealing it from telecom switches, which is what they had been doing for 6 years. That was the primary goal: provide a legal means, with oversight, to collect […]
The moment when Dianne Feinstein should have called for a comprehensive review of NSA’s programs was no later than August 18, when she admitted the Senate Intelligence Committee doesn’t get briefed on violations that occur under Executive Order 12333, even though they constitute the bulk of violations. The committee does not receive the same number […]
In one of the better pieces on White House and anonymous NSA official claims about whether President Obama knew of the wiretaps on Angela Merkel, the NSA spokesperson gets to the crux of the issue. “NSA is not a free agent,” said NSA spokesperson Vanee Vines. “The agency’s activities stem from the National Intelligence Priorities […]
Last week, David Ignatius wrote a column declaring the Director of National Intelligence position under James Clapper “Mission Accomplished!” It’s mostly a beat sweetener, but I’m intrigued by his claim that James Clapper forced the NSA to declassify more of the 2011 John Bates decision than they wanted to. But there are welcome signs that this […]
In truly bizarre testimony he will deliver to the House Intelligence Committee next week, Paul Rosenzweig argues that “too much transparency defeats the very purpose of democracy.” He does so, however, in a piece arguing that the government needs what amounts to be almost full transparency on all its citizens. The first section of Rosenzweig analysis talks […]
James Clapper made a somewhat unprecedented denial of Le Monde’s report (French, English) about the NSA’s dragnet, denying the eye-popping numbers on the volume of French spying (70.3 million in a month) we do. October 22, 2013 Recent articles published in the French newspaper Le Monde contain inaccurate and misleading information regarding U.S. foreign intelligence […]
I was going to leave this post, in which Ben Wittes complains that WaPo published details of NSA’s collection of millions of contact lists, which he didn’t find at all newsworthy, well enough alone. Here the public interest in disclosure seems, at least to me, remarkably weak, after all. At the policy level, the entire […]
Update: And now this, too, has been halted because of the shutdown (h/t Mike Scarcella). This motion suggests the government asked the Internet companies for a stay on Friday. This one suggests the Internet companies asked the government for access to the classified information in the government filing, but the government told them they can’t […]
Way back on page 64 (of 67) of former Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris’ paper “On the Bulk Collection of Tangible Things,” he invokes the elephant metaphor the President used to promise more NSA disclosures on multiple programs. What I’m going to be pushing the IC to do is rather than have a trunk come out […]
Here. (2) Prohibition on cell site may be new with this primary order. (2) The redaction in FN 3 suggests there was at least one change made in program. (3) Note Court claims it didn’t read White Paper. Which means it pretends it doesn’t know that briefings for Congress not as advertised. (4) inclusion of […]
