10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2011-2012
Some key non-surveillance posts from 2011 and 2012.
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10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2008-2010
Some key posts from the first three years of emptywheel.
The Problems with Rosemary Collyer’s Shitty Upstream 702 Opinion
This post took a great deal of time, both in this go-around, and over the years to read all of these opinions carefully. Please consider donating to support this work. It often surprises people when I tell them this, but in general, I’ve got a much better opinion of the FISA Court than most other civil libertarians. […]
When a White Republican Gets Spied On, Privacy Suddenly Matters
Tom Rooney and Trey Gowdy are very concerned the leak of details of Mike Flynn’s incidental collection will make it harder for them to reauthorize Section 702. But in the process of expressing that concern, they made it clear they have zero understanding of how FISA works — or how easy it is to access US person content, particularly at the FBI.
The Undie Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Life Coached “Who Moved My Cheese” Weeks before Jihad
Two months before setting off to Yemen to pursue jihad, the undie-bomber was still trying to coach an associate back in Nigeria the principles laid out in the pop-business book, Who Moved My Cheese.
BuzzFeed Now Looking to Institutional Dems to Police a Phantom Surge of Lefty Fake News
In its latest installment of fake news about fake news, BuzzFeed suggests a barely existent fake news problem might prevent activists from focusing on “legitimate” topics.
Trump Fulfills Another Campaign Promise: Kills 8-Year Old American Girl
On Sunday, Donald Trump killed the 8 year old American citizen daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, Nora, thereby fulfilling his campaign promise to kill the families of terrorists.
Targeted Killing
September 17, 2001: George Bush signs Memorandum of Notification (henceforth, Gloves Come Off MON) authorizing a range of counterterrorism techniques, including torture and targeted killing. September 18, 2001: Congress passes the Authorization to Use Military Force. November 3, 2002: US citizen Kamal Derwish killed in drone purportedly targeting Abu Ali al-Harithi. Late 2008: Ruben Shumpert […]
Maybe FBI Has Lost Track of Who the Informants Are?
Here are all the informants and undercover employees listed in the criminal complaint against Erick Hendricks, who was arrested for conspiring to materially support ISIL in relation to the Garland, TX attack: CHS-1: a paid informant for the last year and a half with a criminal record of fraud and forgery who has not (yet?) […]
Drone Rule Book, Working Thread
What ever happened to the inclusions of headers and footers in documents? It used to be, documents would ID what document you were reading on every page, which is really useful if one page walks or gets replaced with a new one. Now even life-and-death documents like the Drone Rule Book liberated by the ACLU […]
