A Global Human Right to Privacy?, Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare, November 11, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Editorial: Why Allies Spy on One Another
Why America spies on its allies (and probably should), Max Fisher, Washington Post, October 29, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Discussion: The Disclosure of Classified Information - How Much Damage Does It Cause?
How does one determine how much damage to national security the unauthorized disclosure of classified information would reasonably be expected to cause?
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Leaking Secrets to the Media: An Editorial
Who should judge whether Snowden's leaked secrets are too sensitive to report?, Nick Davies, The Guardian, October 13, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
What Should the Public Know About Intelligence Activities?
Spooks and secrets: what is the public's right to know?, Nigel Inkster and Shami Chakrabarti, The Observer,
Spying on Friends: An Editiorial
Spying on 'friends', Brian Cloughley, The News International, October 7, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
An Argument as to Why the CIA is Ill-Informed about World Events
CIA’s Deadly Cultural Ignorance, Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative, September 25, 2013
"Fear of officers "going native" keeps our intelligence agencies ill-informed about Somalia, Syria, and other hotspots."
Is the U.S. an Online Predator?
America's hypocritical approach to economic espionage, Orly Lobel, CNN Money, September 24, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
The Legal Team for President Obama on National Security Issues
The Obama Administration’s National Security Legal Team, John B. Bellinger III, Lawfare, September 4, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Security Clearance Denials and the U.S. Constitution
"(C)an a court review the denial of a security clearance if it involves
an unconstitutional act of discrimination or a restriction of
constitutionally guaranteed rights?"
Security Clearance Denials and Constitutional Rights, Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, September 3, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Politicizing Intelligence....once again
The Risk from Distorting Intelligence, Paul Pillar (former CIA analyst), September 2, 2013
A Legal Analysis of NSA's Programs
Steven G. Bradbury on “Understanding the NSA Programs” (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Friday, August 30, 2013
Get Over It: Nations Spy on Each Other
Spying Is a Sovereign Right, Michael Bohm, The Moscow Times, August 29, 2013
Are Intelligence Agencies Tapping Undersea Cables? Apparently so.
Spy agency taps undersea cables, Philip Dorling, Brisbane Times, August 29, 2013
The Psychological Impact of Mass Surveillance
NSA and GCHQ: the flawed psychology of government mass surveillance, Chris Chambers, The Guardian, August 26, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
The Unending Saga of the CIA's Failures
Decades of failures: Why the CIA keeps blowing it, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The Salon, August 24, 2013
An Editorial on NSA Surveillance
The NSA is losing the benefit of the doubt, Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, August 22, 2013
CIA Closes Historical Collections Division
CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials, Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2013
An Attempt at Describing How NSA is Organized
An Educated Guess About How the NSA Is Structured, Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic, August 14, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
U.S. and Germany Hammering Out a No-Spying Pact
Germany, US to negotiate 'no-spy' agreement, Deutsche Welle, August 12, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Inside GCHQ
GCHQ: inside the top secret world of Britain's biggest spy agency, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and Luke Harding, The Guardian, August 1, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Internal CIA Report: Bad Management Drives Away Talent
Bad management drives talent from CIA, internal reports suggest, Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2013
Who Spies More: The U.S. or Europe?
Which Citizens Are Under More Surveillance, U.S. Or European?, Tom Gjelten, NPR, July 28, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Under Heavy Scrutiny
Spy Agencies Under Heaviest Scrutiny Since Abuse Scandal of the ’70s, Scott Shane, New York Times, July 25, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: We Need Secrecy
Intelligence chairman: Snowden upsets secrecy balance, Mike Rogers, USA Today, July 24, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
NSA and Public Opinion: Survey
Most think NSA is violating privacy rights but want Snowden charged with a crime, Washington Post, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Negative Impact of Secrecy on Democracy
How Secrecy Erodes Democracy, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, Politico, July 22, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Inside the U.S. Intelligence Facility at Pine Gap in Australia
Desert Secrets, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 21, 2013
General Counsel for the DNI Defends NSA Surveillance Program
Intelligence official defends mass gathering of phone data, David G. Savage, July 19, 2013, Los Angeles Times
Ex-CIA Operative Detained in Panama and Later Released
Ex-CIA operative convicted in Italy of kidnapping Muslim cleric is detained, Greg Miller, Washington Post, July 18, 2013
Panama releases former CIA operative wanted by Italy, Greg Miller, Washington Post, July 19, 2013
Tension between tech companies and NSA
Rift on display between tech industry, White House over NSA requests, Charles Cooper, CNET News, July 18, 2013
This article includes the full-text of a petition from tech companies to President Barack Obama for greater transparency about demands for user data.
Key dates in the evolution of NSA surveillance
FISA 101: 10 key dates in the evolution of NSA surveillance, Katherine Jacobsen, The Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2013
The Secrecy of the FISA Court: Competing Viewpoints
Surveillance court too secretive: Our view, Editorial Board, USA Today, July 18, 2013
FISA court 'works well as it is': Opposing view, Steven G. Bradbury, July 18, 2013
Japan and SIGINT
Japan dropped plan for eavesdropping network, still relies on U.S., Yoshihiro Makino, July 19, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Is the NSA an American Stasi?
The NSA's an American Stasi? Outrageous
"East Germany's secret police was an entirely different — and far more dangerous — animal"
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Costs of Living in a Surveillance Society
'Round the Clock Surveillance: Is this the Price of Living in a 'Free, Safe' Society?
John Whitehead, Attorney, President of the Rutherford Institute
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Conference on Intelligence Ethics, National Intelligence University, 2012
"The National Intelligence University (NIU) hosted two Intelligence Ethics conferences over the past four months. The first conference discussed the importance of instituting ethical codes to assist intelligence professionals as they encounter morally ambiguous situations. Senior officials and experts shared their thoughts and experiences with 125 persons representing all major agencies in the IC. Later, on 10 May 2012, the NIU held a second conference for 40 persons in a workshop format. NIU students who had been enrolled over the past academic year in the Intelligence Ethics class presented six alternative intelligence ethos and code proposals to the workshop participants, with ample time for questions and answers about the merits of each proposal. The participants agreed that certain core principles captured a sense of commonality among intelligence professionals."
Conference Proceedings, Intelligence Professionalism: Ethical Basics, Codes of Ethics and the Way Ahead, National Intelligence University, February 16 & May 10, 2012.
Monday, April 29, 2013
The CIA's abuse of intelligence ethics
"Melvin Goodman, who spent 24 years at the CIA, says the agency has lost
its way. In a recent speech at the University of St. Thomas, Goodman
argued that intelligence analysts should be telling "truth to power,"
but instead he said the CIA has become politicized."
The CIA's abuse of intelligence ethics, audio broadcast (Real Player), Minnesota Public Radio, 2007
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Report on Detainee Treatment Released
The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment released their 602-page report on April 15, 2013.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
2012 Report on Security Clearance Determinations
"The Intelligence Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2010 established a
requirement for the President to submit an annual report to Congress on
the security clearance process, to include the total number of security
clearances across government and in-depth metrics on the timeliness of
security clearance determinations in the Intelligence Community (IC). In
response to this requirement, the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) has prepared this 2012 Report on Security Clearance Determinations..."
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
A Report on the CIA's Detention and Rendition Program
Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, Open Society Foundations, February 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Legality of Drone Strikes on U.S. Citizens
Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans, Michael Isikoff, NBC News (February 5, 2013)
Department of Justice White Paper: Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen Who Is a Senior Operational Leader of Al-Qa'ida or An Associated Force
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The CIA's Self-Serving Use of Secrecy
A short editorial piece on the selective use of secrecy by the CIA.
Secret Double Standard, Ted Gup, New York Times, January 8, 2013
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