What Durham Is Investigating and Why It Poses a Danger to US Intelligence...
In October 1972, despite a sizable lead in all the pre-election polls, President Richard Nixon had his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, convene a press conference a mere 12 days before the...
View ArticleEthics Groups Say Barr’s Use of DOJ Is Shredding Its Essential Independence
A new report from two independent, non-partisan groups focused on ethics in government excoriates the operation of the Justice Department during the tenure of Attorney General William Barr. In their...
View ArticleHow to Revitalize the Intelligence Community: A Long, But Essential To-Do List
With the 2020 election over and the unduly delayed transition to the new Biden administration finally underway, the focus within individual government agencies will appropriately turn to assimilating...
View ArticleA Flaw in the Attorney General’s Policy Against Seizing Reporters’ Records
The Department of Justice’s use of compulsory process to obtain information from journalists in criminal investigations has been much in the news after an outcry following revelations that the Trump...
View ArticleA Damage Assessment of Trump’s “Declassification Defense”
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines informed Congress that her office will lead an “assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the...
View ArticleThe Year of Section 702’s Reauthorization: A Reply on “Back Door” Searches
Editor’s Note: This is part two in a multi-part series on foreign intelligence surveillance reform. Part one is available here. Section 702 was added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in...
View ArticleA Close and Critical Look at the ‘Five Things’ the ACLU Says You Need to Know...
Editor’s Note: This is part of a multi-part series on the FISA Section 702 reauthorization and reform debate. On its website, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) presents “Five Things to Know...
View ArticleThe PCLOB Stubs Its Toe on Use of U.S. Person Queries with FISA Section 702
A slim majority of a fractured Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) delivered a report (the “Report”) last week on the operation of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
View ArticleThe GSRA Would Undermine the Utility of FISA Section 702
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires on December 31, 2023 unless Congress acts to renew it either in its present form or as amended. The urgency of the potential...
View ArticleThe SAFE Act Is No “Compromise” and Won’t Leave Americans Safer
(Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on the FISA Section 702 reauthorization and reform debate.) With momentum of efforts to legislate new restrictions on the functioning of Section 702 of the...
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