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| Nov 20, 2013 | The Shameless Revisionism of James Sensenbrenner: Georgetown Law Center Edition | I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata collection conducted under Section 21... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | CSPAN Newsmaker Interview on Patrick Leahy on NSA Collection | Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching. |
| Oct 30, 2013 | Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It | We already wrote a bit about yesterday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing concerning NSA surveillance. There were two sections to it: the first three hours were the top government spooks and lawmakers, and then the last half an hour or ... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | Watch The Video Of Rep. Mike Rogers Attacking Fellow Reps For Saying They Had No Idea NSA Spied On Foreign Leaders | Yesterday, we wrote about the incredible exchange between Reps. Mike Rogers and Adam Schiff, after Rogers made a big production out of claiming that of course the House Intelligence Committee knew all about the NSA spying on foreign leaders... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | Dianne Feinstein Deploys All The 'Intelligence' Cliches In Op-Ed Defending Metadata Program | Dianne Feinstein is reaching out to the American public (at least those that read USA Today) in hopes of gathering support for the NSA’s metadata collection. (Maybe she feels she guilty after inadvertently damaging its chances at staying le... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | Dianne Feinstein's Bragging About NSA Surveillance Program May Finally Result In It Being Declared Unconstitutional | This is quite an incredible story that’s unfolding about a new opportunity for a Constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act, which has enabled broad NSA surveillance. If you haven’t been following the details (and even if you haven... |
| Sep 27, 2013 | Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone | It’s widely known that the NSA has taps connected to the various telco networks, thanks in large part to AT&T employee Mark Klein who blew the whistle on AT&T’s secret NSA room in San Francisco. What was unclear was exactly what kin... |
| Sep 27, 2013 | Sen. Dan Coats Uses His Five Minutes At Intelligence Committee Meeting To Rant About Media And 'Non-Trusting' Public | Apparently, Sen. Dan Coats wasn’t clear on the specifics of Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee meeting. The discussion was supposed to revolve around reforms of existing surveillance programs and a general push for more transparency a... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | Cairo is in chaos. Two journalists are dead. Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei has resigned. Egypt declared a month-long state of emergency, triggering strong opposition from the White House. Expect wildly disparate estimates of the death to... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Why Does Rep. Mike Rogers Always Mock The Internet And Its Users? | Rep. Mike Rogers, who has long been a strong supporter of stomping on your privacy in the name of supporting his friends (and family) who are a part of the intelligence-industrial complex, seems to have a real hatred for the internet and th... |
| Jul 19, 2013 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | Wells hosted Bob Litt, general counsel to the ODNI, this morning at Brookings, for an address about privacy and intelligence collection practices. Check out the C-SPAN video. Here is coverage from Shane Harris of Foreign Policy, Spencer Ack... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | 15 years of Ars: Individuals who redefined gaming, music, and tech policy | Aurich Lawson / Jonathan Naumann / Joi Ito / Stanford CIS reader comments 42 with 38 posters participating
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| Jun 10, 2013 | Yes, the NSA Can Spy on Every US Citizen | NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
On June 9, two reporters from the Guardian newspaper announced to the world the source of one of the most significant classified-document leaks in history. Edward Snowden... |
| Jun 8, 2013 | The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post | Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece on the court order; and a ... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | President Obama Comments on Data Mining | The New York Times reports on President Obama’s first public comments on the NSA and FBI surveillance programs. Updated: Check out the C-SPAN video. The story opens:
President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surve... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Happy(?) Friday. Buckle your seat belts, folks, because today's edition is a force to be reckoned with.
President Obama spent about 15 minutes earlier today speaking about the FISA Court order leak and disclosure of the NSA's data... |
| May 24, 2013 | The President's Speech: Lawmakers React to Obama's Renewed Transfer Efforts | Among the policies President Obama announced in his speech: a renewed commitment to transfer detainees to third countries, where possible. To that end, he said he would appoint a new GTMO-focused envoy at the Departments of State and Defens... |
| May 1, 2013 | A Strange Meeting of the Minds | I had an odd meeting of the minds today---with Glenn Greenwald.
After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama's Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwald:
So glad you wrote this---it�... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | POTUS on Guantanamo Closure | Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunger strike there.
The President str... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | The President's Guantanamo Comments | I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded:
QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probably aware, there's a gr... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on the Targeted Killing Program | As Greg McNeal noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is holding a hearing this afternoon on the targeted killing program entitled "Drone Wars: The Constitutional an... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | House of Representatives passes controversial cyber-intelligence bill | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The U.S. House of Representative passed the Cyber... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Chris Dodd Sounding Like A Broken Recording Industry | Ever since the failure of SOPA, MPAA boss Chris Dodd has been making the rounds, giving the same damn stump speech over and over again. We’ve reported on it before, but he’s done it again, this time at the National Press Club. As the transc... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | Dear Congressman Gutierrez, Please Lift Your Hold On Silicon Valley | Editor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, Fellow at Stanford Law School, and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University... |
| Dec 27, 2012 | If 2012 was a year of housing uncertainty, what will 2013 bring? | I’d like to say the year 2012 brought change to the mortgage finance industry.
After all, the Mayans predicted big things for 2012. But much like Mayan prophecy, the mortgage finance market — the juice housing survives on — ended on a less-... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Remember how AT&T swore it needed T-Mobile to expand LTE? Funny story. | From its headquarters in Texas, AT&T has been rapidly acquiring spectrum to use for LTE.
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| Aug 8, 2012 | John Brennan's Speech on Yemen | And, you know, some related stuff - like drone strikes and security leaks.
C-Span's coverage of the speech, which Brennan gave earlier today at the Council on Foreign Relations, is here. |
| Aug 1, 2012 | Would You Like To Keep The Government From Spying On You? Speak Up Now | We’ve been talking about the Senate debate over cybersecurity all week, and it appears that it’s moving into the endgame process. Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for cloture — basically the process to end the debate and... |
| Jul 10, 2012 | Gen. Alexander Speaks at AEI | I didn't get to attend this event today, as I am on the road, but NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander spoke today at the American Enterprise Institute as part of this event. The video is available at CSPAN, but not embeddable. As soon as AE... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | To nobody's surprise, U.S.-Pakistan talks have officially failed, according to the New York Times. The big enchilada was the issue of a formal U.S. apology for the airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November. Apparently,... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Chris Dodd: The Internet Developed Because Of Strict Copyright Enforcement | It’s really quite amazing just how badly Chris Dodd still doesn’t seem to get what happened in the SOPA/PIPA fight. Every time he opens his mouth to “explain” what happened, he just looks less and less and less aware of what actually happen... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | Feds give vote of confidence to Google Chrome, Android | reader comments 30 with 27 posters participating
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| Jan 3, 2012 | Sweating bullets: Body scanners can see perspiration as a potential weapon | by Michael Grabell and Christian Salewski, ProPublica
A sign explains the procedure for going through the millimeter
wave machine as passengers wait in line at a security
check point at the Salt Lake International Airport in
Salt Lake City,... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Politico reports that the army has disciplined 15 people over the WikiLeaks scandal, and at least one officer "was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty" after an "internal investigation into the decisions and failures ... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Government Representatives Using 'Cybersecurity,' 'Terrorism' As Excuses To Further Trample The Bill Of Rights | Well, Facebook no longer needs to be the scapegoat when it comes to harvesting your personal information and doing nefarious things with it. Now, thanks to the House of Representatives, you can look forward to “a broad swath of ISPs and oth... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | NDAA Senate Debate Part 3: "hundreds and hundreds of hours of debate" | You can read the edited transcript from the Senate's debate yesterday on the detention provisions here. Previous coverage is available here and here. This includes debate on the Sessions amendment starting on page 4, the Feinstein amen... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Why Apple’s Siri will chip away at Google’s mobile search business | 2001 film © MGM remixed by Aurich Lawson reader comments 153 with 103 posters participating
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| Nov 2, 2010 | Disposing of the GSEs and reviving private securitization | Last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve System sponsored a two-day symposium: “Mortgages and the Future of Housing Finance.” This is the second of my eye-witness reports on the event, where two topics dominate... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | General Hayden on Government Secrets and the Press | General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and the NSA, gave an interesting speech on the media and national security last Friday at the Newseum’s conference last Friday on Criminal Law, National Security, and the First Amendment. (... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Roundup: EA takes Tiger back, tech wealth gap widens, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Elin may not take Tiger back, but EA will — Electronic Arts distanced itself from the golf star following his hyped sex scandals, but says it will be releasing the console version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on July... |