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New Statistics Confirm the Continuing Decline in the Use of National Surveillance Authorities
Here is an explainer of the data presented in three intelligence community reports released in April regarding the continuing decline in the use of national surveillance authorities over the past two yea... -
The Chatter Podcast: The Art of the Security State with Trevor Paglen
This week on Chatter, Shane Harris speaks to artist Trevor Paglen, who explores themes of surveillance, security, and secrecy. -
Director of National Intelligence Releases Annual Transparency Report
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Foreign Intelligence Collection
While the intelligence community is adept at collecting foreign intelligence outside the U.S., it does not neatly address how to exploit domestic foreign intelligence, largely due to conflicting narrativ... -
Supreme Court Rules in FBI v. Fazaga
The Supreme Court unanimously held that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not displace the state secrets privilege. -
Supreme Court Rules in United States v. Abu Zubaydah
The court decided that the federal government could invoke the state secrets privilege to block two CIA contractors from testifying about a Guantanamo detainee’s treatment at a CIA black site. -
Tenth Circuit Upholds Conviction On Evidence Gathered Under Section 702 of FISA
On Dec. 8, the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the conviction of an Uzbek immigrant that relied on information obtained through warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance. -
Military Jurors Urge Clemency for Guantanamo Detainee After Unprecedented Testimony on Torture
The letter urging clemency came after Khan last week became the first former prisoner at a black site to give an account of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques agents used to extract informat... -
The Sussmann Indictment, Human Source Handling, and the FBI’s Declining FISA Numbers
The prosecution of Michael Sussmann’s indictment may seem unconnected to the precipitous drop in the volume of the intelligence community’s use of complex investigative techniques. The two are, in fact, ... -
What the Inspector General’s Latest FISA Report Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
In light of the Inspector General’s latest report, how worried should we be about the state of the FISA process? -
Navy Engineer Charged With Attempting to Share Nuclear Submarine Secrets
For over a year, Jonathan Toebbe and Diana Toebbe allegedly sold information about the design of nuclear-powered warships to a person they believed to be a representative of a foreign government who turn... -
When Is a State Secret Not a Secret?
In oral argument in United States v. Zubaydah, the court seemed to take seriously the government’s invocation of the state secrets privilege to protect information that seems very much in the public doma...
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