Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, has this OpEd on Politico this morning: Last week, President Obama met with the five-member review board that he recently appointed to review the National Security Agency’s (NSA) controversial electronic surveillance program. The review board is part of the president’s effort to build confidence in the surveillance program…
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Judge undoes key ruling on surveillance evidence
AP reports: A federal judge in a Chicago terrorism case has undone a key ruling saying the government needn’t divulge whether its investigation relied on expanded phone and Internet surveillance programs. Adel Daoud denies trying to ignite what he thought was a bomb in Chicago. But if agents used the programs, he says they violated…
Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Rights of Americans on the No-Fly List
Nusrat Choudhury of the ACLU trumpets the great news: A federal court took a critically important step late yesterday towards placing a check on the government’s secretive No-Fly List. In a 38-page ruling in Latif v. Holder, the ACLU’s challenge to the No-Fly List, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown recognized that the Constitution applies when the government…
DOJ Still Refuses To Let Tech Companies Reveal How Much Info They Get Via FISA Orders
Mike Masnick writes: So, last night Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the administration will start releasing some data on how many FISA records it seeks, and how many “targets” there are. In a first draft of that post, I had originally speculated that this hopefully meant the various tech companies could finally add FISA request…