2013

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December 2013

1. 31 DecNote to John Brennan: Do Not Extrajudicially Execute Samiul Haq
2. 30 DecHow NSA Hunts Metadata “Content” in Search of Your Digital Tracks
3. 30 DecWait. Where Are These “Gains” NIE Says We Might Lose in Afghanistan?
4. 30 DecJust on Time … Bandar’s Promised Terror Attacks?
5. 29 DecCrunch Time Trash Talk
6. 29 DecNSA, Not China, the Global BIOS Suicide Cyber-Bomber
7. 28 DecJudge Pauley’s Deliberate Blind Spot: Systematic Section 215 Abuses
8. 26 DecThe Hellfires of Christmas
9. 26 DecCoincidental Timing in NSA’s Telecom Switch Collection
10. 24 DecChristmas Eve at Emptywheel
11. 24 DecThe Disturbingly Hollow Message of the Alan Turing Pardon
12. 23 DecThe Civil Liberties Celebration Hangover Wears Off
13. 22 DecEmptywheel’s Christmas Trash Talk
14. 22 DecJames Clapper Claims Publicly Acknowledged Details Are State Secrets While Boasting of Transparency
15. 21 DecConning the Record, Conning the Courts, Defrauding the People
16. 21 DecIs “Bribery” a Demand, or a Polite Request?
17. 20 DecMEK Purchases 27 US Senate Votes for War With Iran
18. 20 DecThe NSA Review Group Ganders at Metadata
19. 19 DecThe NSA Review Group’s Non-Denial Denial on Encryption
20. 19 DecPresident’s Review Group Suggests NSA Currently Acts as a Domestic Security Service
21. 19 DecNot a Drone: Pakistan Military Kills 23 Militants in North Waziristan
22. 19 Dec3 Certifications — Terror, Proliferation, and Cyber — and Stealing from Google
23. 18 DecTurns Out, Committee to Make You Love the Dragnet Soured on the Dragnet
24. 18 DecNSA’s Bid for a 6 Month Delay in Protecting Larry Klayman’s Phone Records
25. 18 DecThe Purpose(s) of the Dragnet, Revisited
26. 18 DecMilitary Commissions (in US!) for Non-Afghan Prisoners Held at Parwan? Brilliant!
27. 17 DecDianne Feinstein Glosses Jeffrey Miller Phone Dragnet Decision
28. 17 DecUS Government Slaps HSBC’s Wrist for Facilitating Terrorism, Again
29. 17 DecLeon Panetta Torture Review Agrees with Senate Torture Report
30. 17 DecThe Pre-Dragnet Cold War Contact Chaining
31. 17 DecWill Obama Attempt to Co-Opt the Internet Companies?
32. 17 DecKeeping the Crazies Occupied While Finishing Iran Nuclear Negotiations
33. 17 DecRichard Leon: A Phone Dragnet Is Not a Special Need
34. 16 DecThat Pirate May Be the Missing Link We Should Drone Kill
35. 16 Dec“He’s sure as hell no traitor”
36. 16 DecNSA’s 60 Wiretaps and FBI’s 1,728 Wiretaps?
37. 16 DecFallout From Wedding Party Drone Strike in Yemen Continues
38. 16 Dec60 Minutes Betters Their Benghazi Debacle: Pirates Ahoy! and Chinese Global Suicide Bombers
39. 14 DecEmptywheel’s Pro Football Trash Talk – Week 15
40. 14 DecHow FISA Dockets (Appear To) Work and Why Snowden Likely Got Few or No PayPal Documents
41. 14 DecDOJ’s IG Hints at Concerns about Back Door Search Issues
42. 13 DecWill DOJ’s 1,265-Day Old Section 215 Review Be Squelched By Past Classifications?
43. 13 DecBrennan Blows Up Another Wedding Party, This Time in Yemen
44. 13 Dec“We’re Not Going to Leave It To the Guy Who Lies to Congress with Impunity Anymore”
45. 12 DecYup, John Brennan Rolled DiFi on the Torture Report
46. 12 DecDid DOJ Prosecute Basaaly Moalin Just to Have a Section 215 “Success”?
47. 12 DecGM’s New CEO: This Model Has Titanium Features
48. 12 DecKarzai’s Latest: US Behaving Like Colonial Power
49. 11 DecSheldon Whitehouse: We Can’t Unilaterally Disarm, Even to Keep America Competitive
50. 11 DecWill Shifting Loyalties in the Middle East (and Fracking) Bring Truth about 9/11?
51. 11 DecPakistan’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Chaudhry Retires
52. 11 DecIn Naming Its Man of the Year, Time Proves It Doesn’t Even READ the News
53. 11 DecFISA Orders for Hacking Help
54. 10 DecChina’s Media Protectionism
55. 10 DecThree-Hopping the Corporate Store, in Theory
56. 10 DecSkirmishes Along Iran-Pakistan Border Have Increased Since October Incident
57. 9 DecNSA Failures and Terror Successes Drive the Dragnet
58. 9 DecChuck Hagel’s Tour of Failure
59. 9 DecWorld of Spycraft in Virtual Space
60. 8 DecFormer Top NSA Officials Insist Employees Are Leaving Because Obama Is Mean, Not Because They Object To NSA’s Current Activities
61. 8 DecSy Hersh Writing about Politicized Intelligence Again, Syria Edition
62. 7 DecConference Championships and NFL Week 14 Trash Talk
63. 6 DecUS Will Destroy Syrian Chemical Weapon Precursors at Sea
64. 6 DecObama: My Overseas Spying Not Constrained by the Law I Passed as Senator
65. 6 DecBBC’s Adam Curtis’ Fluck Up
66. 5 DecHow Does a Competent Jihadi Act after 21 Months of Solitary Confinement?
67. 5 DecUS Wants BSA Signature No Matter What It Takes
68. 5 DecWhy NSA Can’t Count How Many Americans’ Cell Location They Collect
69. 4 DecWhen Susan Rice Is Right, She’s Right!
70. 4 DecScary Terror Metrics: Do Indicted “Terrorists” Really Measure Back Door Spying?
71. 4 DecKhan’s Protests Succeed: US Halts Use of Northern Supply Route Through Pakistan
72. 4 Dec“Bandar is now clearly the tip of the spear”
73. 3 DecFederated Queries and EO 12333 FISC Workaround
74. 3 DecHome Affairs Committee MPs Worry about Minimization Procedures — of Newspaper, not Spy Service
75. 3 DecStealing US Person Data Overseas: A Fox Source and Method
76. 3 DecExpress Tribune Office in Karachi Attacked; Second Time in Four Months
77. 2 DecNSA: We Steal Industry Secrets, But Not for Competitive Advantage
78. 2 DecChina Rivaling British in Crackdown on Critical Journalism
79. 2 DecJanuary 8, 2007 and NSA’s Sloppy Bureaucracy
80. 2 DecBob Woodward and Monopoly Journalism
81. 2 Dec“Journalists” Still Parroting DiFi’s Fear-Mongering

November 2013

1. 30 NovBig Game Rivalry Weekend Trash Talk
2. 30 NovThe James Clapper Plan to “Change” NSA by Keeping John Inglis in Charge
3. 29 NovThe Cayman Islands Agrees to Share Tax Data with the Five Eyes Countries
4. 29 NovRon Wyden: Obama Killed Anwar al-Awlaki with Authority Granted to Him
5. 28 NovInformation Monopoly Defines the Deep State
6. 28 NovThanksgiving: Scarcity among Bounty
7. 28 NovThe NSA versus “Issue-Based Extremists”
8. 28 NovEmptywheel’s Pro Football Turkey Day Trash Talk
9. 27 NovIn 2009, NSA Said It Had a “Present Example” of Abuse Similar to Project Minaret
10. 27 NovImran Khan’s PTI Party Retaliates for Drone Strike, Outs Islamabad CIA Station Chief
11. 27 NovDefinition of a “Radicalizer:” A Sunni Opponent to Unchecked US Power
12. 26 NovChomsky v. Gellman on the Stasi
13. 26 Nov60 Minutes’ Response Is Still Inadequate
14. 26 NovExploitation: “In my ears and in my eyes”
15. 25 NovPhone and Internet Associations Are Both Terror Group Membership and a Chance Encounter in a Dance Hall
16. 25 NovJohn Brennan: “Gone Native,” or Always Already Native?
17. 25 NovStuxnet and the Poisons that Open Your Eyes
18. 25 NovKeith Alexander: The One General Obama Didn’t Fire
19. 25 NovJirga Approves BSA While Karzai Stands by Pledge to Delay Signing
20. 24 NovHistoric P5+1 Interim Agreement With Iran Buys Time for Permanent Solution
21. 23 NovNSA Denies Their Existing Domestic Cyberdefensive Efforts, Again
22. 23 NovThe Quarterback With The Golden Gun Trash Talk
23. 22 Nov50 Years: That Day, JFK and Today
24. 22 NovWas DOJ Hiding a Section 215 Gun Registry from Congress?
25. 21 NovBy “Application” the Administration Didn’t Mean “Memorandum of Law”
26. 21 Nov8 Years Later, NSA Still Using Same PR Strategy to Hide Illegal Wiretap Program
27. 21 NovWhere Is the Moral Rectitude When Political Retaliation Drone Strike Hits Settled Area, Misses Target?
28. 21 NovThe Empire’s New Clothes
29. 21 NovThe Five Year Parade of Internet Dragnet Violations
30. 20 NovThe John Bates Internet Metadata Opinion Probably Dates to July 2010
31. 20 NovErik Prince’s Latest Graymail: Deliberately Targeting an American Teenager
32. 20 NovJohn Bates’ TWO Wiretapping Warnings: Why the Government Took Its Internet Dragnet Collection Overseas
33. 20 NovFor Susan Rice, Love of Endless War Means Never Having to Say US Is Sorry
34. 19 NovWrong Agency, Wrong Minimization: Two More Ways the Original Phone Dragnet Application Violated the Law
35. 19 NovFreedom of Association: From Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to Three Degrees of Terry Stop
36. 19 NovColleen Kollar-Kotelly Ate the Serpent’s Fruit of Judicial “Oversight” in Lieu of Law
37. 19 NovWith Deal in Sight, Pressure Mounts on All Sides for P5+1, Iran
38. 19 NovThe “Heroes” of the Hospital Confrontation Brief the FISC
39. 18 NovTruth Claims, Malaprops, Cows, and the NSA Debate
40. 18 NovWeep for the Spurned Billion Dollar Mercenary!
41. 18 NovUS Failures in Afghanistan Multiplying: Negotiation Impasse, Bomb at Jirga Site and Increasing Violence
42. 18 NovThe Phone Dragnet White Paper, Revisited
43. 16 NovThe Era of Big Pen Register: The Flaw in Jeffrey Miller’s Moalin Decision
44. 16 NovAustin City Limits Trash Talk
45. 16 NovThe Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition
46. 15 NovLike Obi Wan, Osama bin Laden Has Come Back More Powerful Than Ever Before
47. 15 NovTime to Investigate John Brennan and Those Air Marshals Again
48. 15 NovThe CIA (&etc) Money Orders
49. 15 NovIAEA Report Shows Iran Halting Expansion of Nuclear Program — Slowdown Began Before Rouhani Elected
50. 15 NovBasaaly Moalin Denied New Trial
51. 14 NovDiFi’s Circular Defense of the Phone Dragnet’s Legality Proves It Is Illegal
52. 14 NovFat Al Gore Menaces the Homeland and Homeland Security Experts Don’t Care
53. 14 NovPentagon Finally Surrenders, Cancels New Purchase of Russian Helicopters Through Dealer Supplying Syria
54. 14 NovDiFi Fake FISA Fix Explicitly Allows Contractors to Conduct Suspicionless Searches on US Person Data
55. 14 NovIn the Middle of Spying Scandal, Scotland Yard Gives Up on Another One
56. 13 NovIf the Executive Had Followed Clear Minimization Requirements of PATRIOT, Dragnet Abuses Might Have Been Avoided
57. 13 NovMcClatchy Debunks the Latest Libyan Left Behind Novel
58. 13 NovIn Which Ben Wittes Proves Ben Wittes Is NAKED
59. 13 NovLavabit and The Definition of US Government Hubris
60. 12 NovThe Phone Dragnet Did Not (and May Still Not) Meet the PATRIOT Act’s Minimization Requirements
61. 12 NovThe Opportunity Cost of the Global Dragnet
62. 12 NovJust One Week Before Jirga on US Troop Immunity, Reuters Finds Afghan Murder Investigation Stymied by Immunity
63. 12 NovYou Were Warned: Cybersecurity Expert Edition — Now with Space Stations
64. 11 NovTapping the Oil Industry
65. 11 NovIs the Government Hiding FISC’s “Erroneous” 215 Opinion Until After Basaaly Moalin’s Hearing for a New Trial?
66. 11 NovIran, IAEA Ink Agreement, But Was Slain Deputy Minister Part of P5+1 Negotiations?
67. 11 NovDrone Strikes on the NYT’s Claim to Have Improved
68. 10 NovThree Theories Why the Section 215 Phone Dragnet May Have Been “Erroneous” from the Start
69. 9 NovWas Adel Daoud Targeted Off of a Back Door Search of Traditional FISA Collection?
70. 9 NovAfter Reportedly Being Offered Saudi Weapons Sales, France Tries to Blow Up Iran Deal
71. 9 NovThe Dolphin Code: NFL Gangsta in Miami
72. 8 Nov“Morgan Jones'” Blue Mountain Whitewash
73. 8 NovThe Leahy-Sensenbrenner Language on Back Door Searches Improves But Doesn’t Eliminate the Back Door
74. 8 NovThe Intelligence Community’s Wide Open, Unprotected Back Door to All Your Content
75. 8 Nov“Morgan Jones'” Three Unverifiable Claims Covered Up His Own Failures
76. 8 NovScience in the ‘National Interest’: What About Everything Else? [UPDATE]
77. 7 NovLeahy-Sensenbrenner Would Shut the Section 702 Cybersecurity Loophole
78. 7 NovSenate Intelligence Swiss Cheese on OLC Memos
79. 7 NovRed-Teaming Abdulrahman al-Awlaki’s Assassination?
80. 7 NovAikins in Rolling Stone: Zakaria Kandahari Was in Facebook Contact With Special Forces After Escaping Arrest
81. 7 NovDid CIA Take Its Phone Dragnet Business to AT&T When FISC Enforced the Rules?
82. 6 NovCharles McCullough Too Busy Investigating Leakers to Investigate the Dragnet
83. 6 NovThe New Antiwar Release: “They can’t keep this stuff secret. Nothing is secret anymore.”
84. 6 NovThe Stalker Outside Your Window: The NSA and a Belated Horror Story
85. 6 Nov60 Minutes Writes the Final (?) Installment of the Benghazi Left Behind Novels
86. 6 NovWilliam Webster Meets Edward Snowden, IRTPA, Roving Wiretaps, and the Phone Dragnet
87. 6 NovDo We Dare Dream of a Middle East Without WMD’s?
88. 6 NovUS Getting Its Cyber-Ass Handed to It
89. 6 NovApparently Criticizing TSA’s Boss Is Anti-Worker
90. 5 NovLawfare Uses Incomplete Facts about Abdulmutallab Trial to Attack Dirty Wars
91. 5 NovWith US-Pakistan Relations Nearing Tipping Point Again, Watch the Border Crossings
92. 5 NovNSA Lost the House Judiciary Committee During the 2011 PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
93. 5 NovNSA’s Notion of Regaining Confidence
94. 5 NovDiFi’s “Surveillance” Dictionary Makes Her Beloved Phone Dragnet Illegal
95. 4 NovRaj De and the Back-Door Loophole
96. 4 NovDOJ Did Not Fulfill Legally Required Disclosure on Section 215 to Congress Until After PATRIOT Reauthorization
97. 4 NovCrazy Posturing Over Hakimullah Mehsud Drone Killing Drowns Out Key Question: Why Now?
98. 3 NovAnonymous Aide Pushback Strengthens Case that DiFi Bill Supports Backdoor Searches
99. 2 NovDrowning in Haystacks
100. 2 NovBIG CHEESE AND TUNDRA Mitten and Seminole Trash Talk
101. 2 NovDiFi’s Fake FISA Fix: The Roamer Pre-Emergency Exigent Excuse To Be Used on Internet Content
102. 2 NovDiFi’s Fake FISA Fix Appears to Further Extend Searches on US Persons Under Section 702
103. 1 NovIt Was Verizon, with the Fiber Cable, Under the Atlantic
104. 1 NovNSA Apologists Now Blaming Snowden for NSA’s Own Cyberdefense Failures
105. 1 NovDianne Feinstein Opens the Tech Back Door to the Dragnet Database Even Wider
106. 1 NovRobert Litt: Isn’t Weakening Encryption Our Job?
107. 1 NovHow Ridiculous is Pakistan’s New Civilian Drone Victim Estimate? Terrorist Okra-Picking Grandma!
108. 1 NovFeinstein’s Fake Fix May Expand Use of the Phone Dragnet

October 2013

1. 31 OctWhat’s the Relationship Database About?
2. 31 OctAngry Mom and First Principles: What is the Nature of a Broken Lock?
3. 31 OctWhat Are NSA’s Standards for Surveilling Transnational Crime Organizations?
4. 31 OctThe Smartest European Blowback In the World
5. 30 OctNSA Non-Denial Denial 241,352,052
6. 30 OctWhy Swim Upstream Overseas?
7. 30 OctNSA Returns to Stealing from Yahoo and Google
8. 30 OctHow Does NSA (and Its Partners) Catch More Terrorists in Europe with Less Metadata?
9. 30 OctPeace Initiative Gains Momentum in Afghanistan Despite Lack of Participation by US
10. 30 OctIn Which the I Con Uses Top Secret Spy Weapon, the “Conjunction,” Against Journalists
11. 29 OctJohn Bates Intervened in the Phone Dragnet Problems
12. 29 OctOne Day after Rolling Out “Comprehensive Review,” Feinstein Proceeds with Mark-Up Anyway
13. 29 OctThe White House — Lisa Monaco? — “Cutting Off the Intelligence Community”
14. 29 OctHas John McCain Been Chatting Up Bibi on a Tapped Phone?
15. 28 OctCivil Libertarians to Dianne Feinstein: We Told You So
16. 28 OctThe Oversight Black Hole of the Merkel Tap
17. 28 OctThe Institutional Subjectivity of the White Affluent US Nation
18. 28 OctWho Is Behind Latest Iran-Pakistan Border Incident? Who Benefits?
19. 28 Oct“An internal and an external review”
20. 27 OctDid Lying Keith Just Accuse Obama of Lying?
21. 27 OctThe Dog Ate Charles McCullough’s Homework
22. 26 OctThe Spooks Will Never Have Their Software Self-Spying Working
23. 26 OctBetter Late Than Never Trash Talk
24. 26 OctJames Clapper versus DOJ (and NSA) on Upstream Collection Transparency
25. 26 OctDOJ’s New “Transparency” on the Dragnet: Admitting Their “Physical Search” Was the “Dragnet”
26. 25 OctThe “Voluntary” Cooperation that Comes from Coercion of Licensing Agreements?
27. 25 OctKeith Alexander: Armageddon for Thee But Not for Me
28. 25 OctUS Priorities at Parwan: $60 Million Prison Built Quickly, $2.7 Million Courthouse Languished
29. 25 Oct“Too much transparency defeats the very purpose of democracy”
30. 24 OctHaqqani’s Revenge?
31. 24 OctIf the Saudis Take Their Toys and Go Home, Have They Still Won the Arab Spring?
32. 24 OctDid Obama Lie to Merkel in Berlin?
33. 24 OctWhy Would Woodward Leak Confirmation of US-Pak Collaboration on Drone Strikes While Sharif Was in DC?
34. 23 OctUnder Keith Alexander’s Guard, America Can Be Plundered Like a Colony
35. 23 OctNSA Has Conquered Canada and Mexico Now
36. 23 OctJames “Too Cute By Half” Clapper’s Denial
37. 23 OctOn that Acknowledged Covert Op in Syria
38. 23 OctShot By Government Forces or Victim of His Own Bomb: How Did Bahrain Teen Die?
39. 23 OctCarmen Ortiz Blows Off Dzhokhar Tsarneav’s Request on His Own Involvement in Waltham
40. 22 OctThe Common Commercial Services OLC Memo and Zombie CISPA
41. 22 OctIntelligence Committees: Not Informed about Torture, Not Informed about Drone Casualties, Not Informed about US Person Spying
42. 22 OctFalse Prophet of Adequate Congressional Oversight Finds Congressional Ignorance Unnewsworthy
43. 22 OctThe USAID vs SIGAR Pissing Contest
44. 22 OctObama Throws Top Spying Partner, Verizon, at ObamaCare
45. 22 OctDid Chuck Hagel Cut Off Poor Bandar?
46. 21 OctWhy Does France Get Publicly-Reported Phone Calls?
47. 21 OctOn the 12th Day of Christmas, the NSA Gave to Me … 12 “Terrorism Supporters”
48. 21 OctFBI Says the FBI Wasn’t Surveilling the Tsarnaevs
49. 21 OctNSA’s Section 702 Success: 150 Gigs of Defense Contractor Data Protected
50. 21 OctDaily Mail Wins Partial Declassification of British Court Decision Documenting Torture in Afghan Prison
51. 20 OctDoes This Provide Insight into Obama’s Relative Silence?
52. 20 OctDishFire and the Drug War
53. 19 OctMy name is US Bandwith, king of kings:
54. 19 OctGronks and Donks Trash Talk Bonanza!
55. 19 OctCIA and the President: The Warm Embrace of Mutual Incrimination
56. 18 OctDocket Inflation at the FISA Court?
57. 18 OctMary McLaughlin Repeats Claire Eagan’s Error
58. 18 OctBarb Mikulski and Stephen Preston Seem to Disagree Over Whether David Petraeus “Jerked Around” Congress
59. 18 OctUS Isn’t Collecting Only Electronic Data On You — Huge Biometric Database Under Construction, Too
60. 18 OctStephen Preston: Covert Operations Don’t Need OLC Approval
61. 18 OctNSA’s Dissenters
62. 17 Oct12 Years Later, DOJ Is Still Struggling Through Dragnet Discovery Issues
63. 17 OctWhy Did NSA Raise Traffickers for a Story about Drone Killing Terrorists?
64. 17 OctP5+1 Meeting: Remarkable Change in Tone From Diplomats and Press
65. 17 OctDianne Feinstein Didn’t Mean to Mislead the Senate into Extending FAA, Promise!
66. 17 OctNSA Silenced Our Rendition Secret
67. 16 OctNot Breaking: Keith Alexander to Be Allowed to Retire Unscathed; Breaking: NSA
68. 16 OctWhy We Can’t Save Mohamed Osman Mohamud
69. 16 OctHow to Evaluate the HIG? Exploitation? Dead Bodies?
70. 16 OctUS Deports Ibragim Todashev’s Girlfriend
71. 16 OctPitiful “Moral Victory” for ANSF: “Mostly Survived” and “Didn’t Give Back All Gains”
72. 16 OctCIA Aims to Hide Its SEKRIT Files at Second Circuit Again
73. 15 OctAbout that May 2007 FISC Opinion
74. 15 OctArticle II Is Article II: EO 12333 and Protect America Act, FISA Amendments Act, and FISC
75. 15 OctClearest Indication Yet That Some Chemical Weapon Sites in Syria Are Under Rebel Control
76. 15 OctRemarkably Timed Spamouflage, Scary Iran Plot Edition
77. 14 OctDianne Feinstein’s Pre-UndieBomb Thinking
78. 14 OctPerhaps High Value Interrogation Group Members Don’t Make the Best Doctors?
79. 14 OctThe FISC Opinion Dance
80. 13 OctThe NSA Hides Its Domestic Collection by Refusing to Count It
81. 13 OctThe 2011 Disclosures
82. 12 Oct“Folksy and Firm” Flummoxes Fancy NYT Journalists
83. 12 OctContinuing Shutdown Resolution Shakedown Trash Talk
84. 11 OctFindings versus Law: “The Intelligence Community Does Not Task Itself”
85. 11 OctShorter Rupp: We Inform Members at Briefings They Can’t Attend Because They’re Too Busy
86. 11 OctUS Grabs Pakistan Taliban Representative From Afghan Authorities, Preventing Peace Talks
87. 11 Oct“Together, we all prevail”
88. 10 OctJack Goldsmith’s Code
89. 10 OctLast Week’s Blizzard, This Week’s Hell
90. 10 OctNYPD Sends Violent Undercover Officer to Spy on Occupy as It Helps Sandy Victims
91. 10 OctPeter Baker, Meat Grinder for Bush
92. 10 OctMEK Makes Desperate New Iran Nuclear Accusation, Reuters Yawns
93. 10 OctSurveillance Logic: Snowden Is Bad because AQAP Conference Call Leak Was
94. 10 OctThe Business as Usual Brigade
95. 9 OctWhat Kind of Intelligence Does the HIG Expect to Get from Anas al-Libi?
96. 9 OctKarzai: NATO Caused Lot of Suffering and Death, Yet Afghanistan Is Not Secure
97. 8 OctThe FBI’s Official “CAIR Has Cooties Guidance Directive [Redacted]”
98. 8 OctUS Embarrasses Self Again on Symbolism of Newest Floating Prison
99. 8 OctHow Can NSA Protect Our Power Grid from Cyberattack When It Can’t Keep Its Own Power On?
100. 8 OctThe Other Things the Government Is Hiding from Dzhokhar’s Lawyers
101. 7 Oct6 Years Later, Are the Internet Companies Trying to Expose Telecoms Stealing Their Data, Again?
102. 5 OctMcCaffrey the MilleniaLab’s Trash Talk
103. 4 OctI Con the Record Admits All This Spying Also Serves Counterintelligence
104. 4 Oct“Tor Stinks” … because It Requires Manual (Digital) Tails
105. 4 OctUpstream US Person Collection: EO 12333 and/or FISA?
106. 3 OctThe Scandal of Lying about “Thwarted” “Plots” Started 4 Years Ago
107. 3 OctIs Carmen Ortiz Subjecting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Solitary To Prevent Him from Learning about Developments in Florida?
108. 3 OctMassive Obama Administration Leaks on Covert CIA Program Training Syrian Rebels
109. 3 OctEFF: The Fourth Amendment Is Not Top Secret
110. 2 OctDavid Kris: I’m Not Saying CIA Shoots Drones, Assassinates Americans, and Influences Media, But …
111. 2 OctJames Clapper Proves Inadequate Oversight by Refusing to Answer EO 12333 Questions
112. 2 OctDavid Kris Outlines the Internet Dragnet Elephant
113. 2 OctSOFA Unlikely Due to Karzai’s Objection to Death Squads
114. 2 OctDavid Kris Joins Ben Wittes in His NAKED! Choir
115. 1 OctDavid Kris Points to the Clause Loopholed Under David Barron on Metadata Collection
116. 1 OctSaudis Holding Their Breath Until We Deliver Mideast Hegemony
117. 1 Oct“Everyday Americans” Are Increasingly Foreign Intelligence Now
118. 1 OctFailed Marine Corps Commandant Amos Calls for Consequences for Failed Leadership (for Others)

September 2013

1. 30 SepCould an Independent NSA Inspector General Have Prevented 3 Years of Violations?
2. 30 SepThanks for Keeping Us Independent
3. 30 SepSyrian Government Off to Good Start With OPCW, But Why Is Peace Conference Six Weeks Away?
4. 30 SepOur Yemeni “Allies” Did More Damage than Edward Snowden
5. 29 SepBadly Broken: We Are Walter White
6. 29 SepThe People Who Work at Arthur Anderson NSA Are Such Nice People
7. 29 SepAnother Reason David Barron Should Not Get a Lifetime Appointment without Further Disclosure
8. 28 SepBill Binney Told You So
9. 28 SepReal Deal Exit the Sandman and Mom Rock and Roll Trash Talk
10. 28 SepA Stub for Trash Talk
11. 27 Sep“Whoa Whoa Whoa, Stop!” Dianne Feinstein Misstates the 2011 Violations
12. 27 SepRon Wyden’s Past Provocative Hearing Question on Cell Site Location
13. 27 SepUS, Russia Agree on Syria Plan; UN Security Council Vote Could Come Later Today
14. 27 SepRon Wyden’s What’s-Old-Is-New Question: Reverse Targeting
15. 27 SepHalf the LOVEINT Violations Committed by Non-NSA Employees
16. 26 SepDid OLC Rule Americans Have Voluntarily Allowed NSA to Collect Their Communications Domestically?
17. 26 SepDianne Feinstein Gives NSA Apologist Ben Wittes More “Oversight” Time than Ron Wyden
18. 26 SepThe Kiddie Porn and the UndieBomb
19. 26 SepNSA Bids to Expand Power Domestically to Track Chinese (!?) Terrorists
20. 26 SepSyrian Moderate Coalition Fractures — Is al Nusra the Next MEK?
21. 26 SepThe America’s Cup Comes Home
22. 25 SepWhy Isn’t the NSA Evaluating Why It Didn’t Have Chechen Intelligence on Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
23. 25 SepSenate Intelligence Committee Open Hearings: A Platform for Liars
24. 25 SepMassive Earthquake in Balochistan Kills Hundreds, Creates Temporary Island
25. 25 Sep1,186 Days into IG Report Covering Dragnet, Leahy Calls for Another
26. 25 SepQuestion: What Do David Barron and Jay Bybee Have in Common?
27. 24 SepSpeaking at UN, Obama Tries to Claim He Was Always For Diplomacy in Syria
28. 24 SepFurther Implications of UndieBomb II Leaker Guilty Plea
29. 23 SepSay Hello To Our New Friends At Just Security
30. 23 SepAfghanistan: New Green on Blue, Green on Green and a Politicized Memorial Service
31. 22 SepMike Rogers Continues to Thwart Fully Informed Representative Government
32. 21 SepStart of Fall Trash Talk
33. 20 SepThe Girlfriend Detention Method of Coercion
34. 20 SepNSA Caught Illegally Spying on Americans and Keith Alexander’s Answer Is a Group Hug
35. 20 SepFurther Questions Arise on Ghouta Attack
36. 19 SepIn Wake of Revelations about Corruption and Coercion, OCC Wails about Bank Cybersecurity
37. 19 SepDOJ Refuses to Explain How Executive Gets Away with Serial Lies to the FISA Court
38. 19 SepBen Wittes, Brookings Buck Naked
39. 19 SepIs Lindsey Graham the Weakest Politician in the United States?
40. 18 SepBy “Secret Law” Did They Mean “Not Written Down”?
41. 18 SepHot Numbers and the 2009 Troubles
42. 18 SepOh, So THAT’S Why the Government Is So Insistent Section 215 Had a Role in the Zazi Case?
43. 18 SepAlso, the Nail Polish Remover Lobby Didn’t Challenge Section 215 Orders
44. 18 SepWorking Thread on FISA Order, Opinion
45. 17 SepHow Mike Rogers’ Excessive Secrecy in 2011 Might Kill the Dragnet
46. 17 SepDilma Throws Obama a BRIC
47. 17 SepDarrell Issa’s Net Worth Goes Up 152% in One Year
48. 17 SepACLU to Jim Comey: Welcome. Now Fix This.
49. 17 SepNYTimes Finally Finds Concern Over Impunity for War Crimes, But Only Assad’s War Crimes
50. 17 SepHappy “Dirty Your Hands” by Partnering with Bashar al-Assad Day
51. 16 SepWyden/Udall: If Intelligence Community Is Dumb Rather than Malicious, Why Should We Trust Them?
52. 16 SepWorking Thread: UN Chemical Weapon Report on Syria Released
53. 16 SepAn Illegal Program Sanctioned with a Rubber Stamp Is Still That Same Illegal Program
54. 16 SepIHS Jane’s Claims about Syrian Rebels More Conservative than US Intell Community’s
55. 15 SepDouble Dipping at SWIFT
56. 14 SepUS Negotiating Position in Lavrov-Kerry Deal Depends on Expansive Commander-in-Chief Claims
57. 14 SepWestFest All Ireland Donkey Derby Trash
58. 13 SepThe Irony of Booz Vice Chair Mike McConnell’s Timing
59. 13 SepGoogle’s Payoff from DOD: 20 Cheap Fuel Flights to Tortola
60. 13 SepACLU [and congress] Has Standing to Know What It Is Debating
61. 13 SepImagine the Administration Lying to Congress about the Dragnet
62. 13 SepUS: “Never Mind That Guy Eating a Heart, We Have Handwritten Receipts For the Guns”
63. 13 SepFund Unchained Journalism of Emptywheel: It’s All Because Of You
64. 12 SepObama’s James Clapper’s Committee To Make You Love the Dragnet Has a Kiddie Table
65. 12 SepNSA’s Corruption of Cryptography and Its Methods of Coercion
66. 12 SepBrEaKiNg! In NYT Op-Ed, Vladimir Putin Fails to Disclose PhD
67. 12 SepInformation Sharing with Israel Raises Questions about Efficacy of NSA’s Minimization Procedures
68. 12 SepCIA Joins Obama’s Dissembling on Date Death Squads Sent Into Syria
69. 12 SepWorking Thread: Section 215 Dragnet Document Dump, Part II
70. 11 SepKeith Alexander’s Ignorance By Design
71. 11 SepJournalists Grope Blindly Around Syria CW Destruction Without Discovering Need for Ceasefire
72. 11 SepImagine the Informants You Can Coerce When You Can Spy on Every Single American
73. 11 SepHow Many People Are Included in Contact Chaining with 27,090 Numbers?
74. 10 SepStupid Smartphones and Their Lying Lies
75. 10 SepShorter NSA: That We Discovered We Had No Fucking Clue How We Use Our Spying Is Proof Oversight Works
76. 10 SepAmerican Dirty Hands and Chain of Command
77. 10 SepFrance to Take Kerry’s Accidental Diplomacy to UN
78. 10 SepEmptywheel Fundraiser — Halfway There
79. 9 SepJames Clapper’s Financial War on the World
80. 9 SepDid Kerry’s “Impossible” Diplomatic Demand Just Get Met? Update: Now Possible?
81. 9 SepKeith Alexander’s Pizza Problem
82. 8 SepNSA and Compromised Encryption: The Sword Cuts Both Ways
83. 8 SepAny Bets FBI Was Already Searching US Person Data?
84. 7 SepRumble at the Big House Trash Talk
85. 7 SepSyria: The Administration’s Attribution Failure
86. 7 SepBandar’s Hot and Cold Running Jihadis
87. 6 SepPlaying Chess with Russia and Iran
88. 6 SepJohn Kerry’s Cakewalk
89. 6 SepMission Creep Hits Syria Targeting, Training Before First Tomahawks Fly
90. 5 SepThe Return of the NFL: It’s ON!!!
91. 5 SepThe Emptywheel Two Million Visit Fundraiser
92. 5 SepNSA, GCHQ, Declare Civil War on Their Own People
93. 5 SepParallel Processing: AUMF Assad Spanking and Then Article II Regime Change
94. 5 SepIf We Collect Warning of CW Attacks But Nobody Notices, Does It Do Much Good?
95. 5 SepJoby Warrick Is the New Judy Miller
96. 4 SepWith All These Defections, How Can Intelligence Agencies Make Claims about Chain of Command?
97. 4 SepThe Syrian Not-War: Money Issues
98. 4 SepWhy is Obama Changing the Date and Size of First CIA Death Squads to Enter Syria?
99. 4 Sep“As He Determines To Be Necessary and Appropriate in a Limited and Tailored Manner”
100. 4 SepLessons from Today’s Senate Hearing on Syria
101. 3 SepThe Case for War: Since When is Médecins Sans Frontières a Secret Intelligence Source?
102. 3 SepRush to Syrian War: What About US Relations With Iran and Russia?
103. 2 SepToday’s Labor Heroes Are Working Today
104. 1 SepThe Short-Comings of Pre-Crime Intelligence
105. 1 SepThe AUMF Crescent

August 2013

1. 31 AugThe Case to Congress
2. 31 AugOperation Ballsack Labor Day Football Trash Talk
3. 30 AugWhatever Happened to the Atrocities Prevention Board?
4. 30 AugMicrosoft, Google, as Unimpressed as I Am with I Con’s New Data Release Promise
5. 30 AugSources and Methods: A Case for War
6. 30 AugBlurred Line? Really? What a Perfect Analogy
7. 30 AugHundreds of Millions Lubricate the Telecoms
8. 29 AugThe Black Budget
9. 29 AugGeneral Idris’ Close Watch on Assad’s CW
10. 29 AugThe New I Con: “Total Number of Orders and Targets”
11. 29 AugAnonymous “Intelligence Officials” Contemplated a Rogue CW Attack 8 Months Ago
12. 28 Aug3 Tech Issues the Non-Technologist NSA Technical Committee Needs to Address
13. 28 AugWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting a Report From James “Least Untruthful” Clapper
14. 28 AugCruise Killing on the Passive Voice
15. 28 AugThe No-Technologist Technology Review Panel
16. 27 AugFISC Judges Should Threaten NSA with Criminal Prosecution More Often
17. 27 AugUpdate on Lavabit
18. 27 AugAs with Manning Leak, Snowden Leak Reveals DOD Doesn’t Protect Security
19. 27 Aug“Credibility”
20. 26 AugAre the Brits Trying to Protect British Telecom?
21. 26 AugHow Long Until ESPN Brand Is Damaged By Money Trumping Safety?
22. 26 AugLaura Poitras Chips at the Terrorism Lie
23. 25 AugHow the NCTC Gets Its NSA Data
24. 24 AugThe Google/Yahoo Problem: Fruit of the Poison MCT?
25. 24 AugParchin Asphalt: Obstructing Sampling or Sealing the Record?
26. 24 AugUpstream Internet Collection and Minimization Procedures
27. 24 AugMore Contractor Problems — And FISC Disclosure Problems?
28. 23 AugNSA’s Inspector General Appears to Be Disappearing 299 Deliberate Violations a Year
29. 23 AugHas Federal Use of Drones Violated EO 12333?
30. 23 AugHow to Get the Government to Ease Up: Involve Scott Shane
31. 23 AugWhy Would PRISM Providers Need to Pay Millions for New Certificates on Upstream Collection?
32. 23 AugKeith Alexander’s Dinner Theater
33. 23 AugYellowcake In the Soles of His Shoes
34. 22 AugNot-So-Trusted Computing: German Government Worried About Windows 8 Risks
35. 22 AugNSA Has a Database Problem
36. 22 AugAdvocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein, on Obama’s “Committee To Make Us Trust the Dragnet”
37. 22 AugDNI’s Latest “I Con” Speak: “Sift Through and Have Unfettered Access To”
38. 22 AugWho Is Disrupting Pakistan’s Peace Talks With Taliban This Time?
39. 21 AugNSA’s “Presumption of Regularity”
40. 21 AugOlympic Fact-Checking of the NSA
41. 21 AugBradley Manning’s Sentence, Parole and Appeal Implications
42. 21 AugMore Signs Iran May Want Nuclear Agreement
43. 21 AugHow NSA Bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 Years
44. 20 AugBoth These Things Cannot Be True
45. 20 AugIf NSA Commits Database Query Violations, But Nobody Audits Them, Do They Really Happen?
46. 20 AugThe Importance of Being Earnest
47. 20 AugPervez Musharraf Indicted for Benazir Bhutto Murder
48. 19 AugHave There Been Significant Phone Dragnet Violations Since 2009?
49. 19 Aug20 Questions: Mike Rogers’ Vaunted Section 215 Briefings
50. 19 AugWorking Thread: Section 215 Chronologies
51. 19 AugNew High School Course in Iran: Drone Hacking
52. 19 AugThe Bradley Manning Sentencing Dynamics
53. 18 AugAmerica’s Closest Ally Declares Glenn Greenwald’s Partner a Terrorist
54. 17 AugDid NSA and JSOC Team Up to Game Obama and Monaco on Yemen Terror Alert?
55. 17 AugMike Rogers’ Excuses for Withholding Dragnet Notice Get Stupider
56. 17 AugDid Congress Remain Ignorant of the Fourth Amendment Violation?
57. 16 AugLack of Due Diligence: The NSA’s “the Analyst Didn’t Give a Fuck” Violation
58. 16 AugVerizon: Get Exposed for Spying, Win $1 Billion!
59. 16 Aug21% of the Database Query Errors in NSA Report Involved the Phone Internet Dragnet Database
60. 16 AugThe Biggest Math Organization in the World Has a Simple Arithmetic Problem
61. 16 AugMorally Depraved Obama Fails in Response to Egyptian Massacre
62. 16 AugAll Three Branches Conduct Vaunted NSA Oversight!
63. 16 AugAs WaPo Was Letting Pincus Transcribe, They Were Fighting Administration on Gellman Story
64. 15 AugMore Notice Problems in the 215 Dragnet White Paper
65. 15 AugWhen the FISA Court becomes the Exotic Surveillance Shop
66. 15 Aug“There are two more issues intelligence officials want noted”
67. 14 AugAlexander Joel: Dragnet with a Human Face
68. 14 AugAdministration’s OWN White Paper Backs Claim Mike Rogers Did Not Share Dragnet Notice
69. 14 AugThe Known Details on the Lavabit Demand
70. 14 AugDunford Demonstrates Futility of Military’s Doublespeak on Afghanistan
71. 13 AugIf by “New” IG Investigation You Mean 1,155 Days Old
72. 13 AugThe Two OLC Still-Secret Memos Behind the Cross-Border Keyword Searches?
73. 13 AugThe Clapper Review: How to Fire 90% of SysAdmins?
74. 13 AugDomestic Terrorists and the Dragnet Database
75. 13 AugWorking Thread, Section 215 White Paper
76. 13 AugMike Rogers Says 4 Briefings Recently Makes Up for Withholding Information before PATRIOT Act Vote
77. 12 AugThis Independent Technical Review Group Brought to You By the Booz Allen Hamilton Director of National Intelligence™
78. 12 Aug65 2010 House Freshmen Re-Authorized PATRIOT with No Notice of Section 215 Dragnet
79. 12 AugStop and Frisk STOPPED! [Updated]
80. 12 AugDrone Strikes in Yemen Are Very Effective — For AQAP Recruitment
81. 12 AugNBC News Hires Edison Carter and Blank Reg For Big Time TV
82. 11 AugThe White Paper’s Selective Forgetting on FCC Phone Record Retention History
83. 11 AugMike Rogers’ Double Secret Invitation to Dance
84. 11 AugDictionary Arbitrage and Section 215: “Relevant”
85. 10 AugIs This Why Banksters Don’t Go to Jail for Laundering Terrorist Finances?
86. 10 AugShon Hopwood, Stephen Glass and Second Chances in America
87. 9 AugObama’s Credibility Trap
88. 9 AugBREAKING! Information “is collected” on millions of Americans
89. 9 AugNSA-Speak — Timely: (Adj.) 2-Month Delay
90. 9 AugDid NSA Interpret Adverse FISC Fourth Amendment Ruling as Permission to Search American Contacts?
91. 9 AugVirginia Doesn’t Want Detroit to Get Convention Dollars
92. 8 AugCount Von Count Drones Yemen
93. 8 AugAgainst Legion of Doom Alert, Is Hadi Playing Saleh’s Old Game?
94. 8 AugBehind Legion of Doom: Breaking “Encrypted Electronic Communications between High Level Al Qaeda Leaders”
95. 8 AugDisplacing the Reset with Russia
96. 8 AugI Told You So, It’s about Cybersecurity Edition
97. 7 AugMaybe the Gimmick Is in the Timing of Legion of Doom?
98. 7 AugThe Ooga Booga* Continues to Wear Off
99. 7 AugDid Yemen Evacuation Cover Staging of JSOC Troops, Equipment for Attack?
100. 7 AugWhat If the Tor Takedown Relates to the Yemeni Alert?
101. 7 AugWho Will the Government Scapegoat Now on the Wuhayshi Leak?
102. 6 AugWas It NSA or a Yemeni “Ally” Leaking the “Clear Orders” from Zawahiri to Wuhayshi?
103. 6 AugPakistan Deploys Troops to Beef Up Security at Jail Housing Shakeel Afridi, Key Taliban Figures
104. 5 AugCIA’s Cloud Storage Just Bought the WaPo
105. 5 AugMore Lies to the FISA Court
106. 5 AugUS Justice: A Rotting Tree of Poisonous Fruit?
107. 5 AugAbout the Reuters DEA Special Operations Division Story
108. 4 AugStewart Baker’s User Interface and Edward Snowden’s Authorities
109. 3 AugShut Down CyberCommand — US CyberCommander Keith Alexander Doesn’t Think It’s Important
110. 3 AugPremature NFL Trash Talk Under Duress
111. 2 AugIf Only DOJ Hadn’t Burned AP’s Sources …
112. 2 Aug“Congress Was Fully Briefed” … at the Last Minute
113. 2 AugWhy Spend $887 Million on Armored Vehicles for Afghan Army When Thousands Sit Idle?
114. 2 AugMichael Hayden, after Escaping Justice, Calls for Other Criminals to Be Made Examples
115. 2 AugJames Cole: “Of Course We’d Like Records of People Buying” Pressure Cookers
116. 1 AugIf By “Plots on the Homeland” You Mean “Defense against US-Backed Invaders”
117. 1 AugHave 1,485 Innocent Americans Been Investigated for Researching Pressure Cookers?
118. 1 AugKeith Alexander: We Report Violations to “Everyone”
119. 1 Aug“Progress” Report: ANSF Abandoning Over One Third of ISAF Facilities
120. 1 AugOn Same Day Alexander Tells BlackHat, “Their Intent Is to Find the Terrorist That Walks Among Us,” We See NSA Considers Encryption Evidence of Terrorism
121. 1 AugWyden: We Proved that “Unique” and “Vital” Information Wasn’t in 2011

July 2013

1. 31 JulIs THIS What Wyden Meant by “Allowing the NSA to Deliberately Search for Records of Particular Americans”?
2. 30 JulDOJ Responds to Non-Intell Committee Member of Opposition Party, But Not Intell Committee Member of President’s Party
3. 30 JulManning Faces Up to 136 Years in Prison for Alerting You to What Your Government Does in Your Name
4. 30 JulMIT Releases Its Own Swartz Investigation After Stalling Release of Secret Service’s
5. 29 JulBig-Footing Superpower Status Also about Legally Immune Commander in Chief(s)
6. 29 JulThe Stenography Dance between Israel and the US
7. 29 JulWell, at Least DOJ Promised Not to Mine Journalists’ Metadata Going Forward
8. 29 JulEspionage: Now, with No Damage Envisioned
9. 29 Jul70% of Pew’s Respondents More Attentive than Pew?
10. 28 JulThe James Clapper Stall Declaration
11. 27 JulIgnatius Has Become a “Choice between Security and Privacy” Stenographer
12. 27 JulWyden and Udall: They’re Blowing Smoke about Phone and Other Bulk Record Safety
13. 26 JulOn the Growing Fight Against America’s Secret Enemies
14. 26 JulEric Holder: Well, Maybe Just a Little Forced Nudity and Solitary Confinement…
15. 26 JulFBI’s Warrantless Drone Surveillance
16. 26 JulWill Souring US-Russian Relations Enable US-Iran Bilateral Nuclear Technology Talks?
17. 25 JulCandidate Obama’s Tribute to “Courage and Patriotism” of Whistleblowers Disappears 2 Days after First Snowden Revelations
18. 25 JulSIGAR’s Sopko re $50 Million Sole Source Rule of Law Contract: “You Can’t Make This Up”
19. 25 JulSteny Hoyer Thinks All Americans May Be Pre-Investigation Terrorist Communicators
20. 24 JulAmash-Conyers Fails 205-217
21. 24 JulMike Rogers: IRS Scandal Is Real, NSA Scandal Is Not; AP Collection Is a Dragnet, Section 215 Collection Is Not
22. 24 Jul“Section 215 Is Silent”
23. 24 JulCIA Death Squads in Afghanistan to Have Fewer Bases
24. 24 JulThe Liars Are “Very Concerned” Program They Lied About Will Be Defunded
25. 24 JulAfter 7 Years of Refusing Any Public Debate, Executive Decries Congress for Not Being “Open”
26. 24 JulWorking Post on Government Motion in Moalin Prosecution
27. 23 JulOf Course the NSA Can’t Search Its Own Emails…
28. 23 JulWill Keith Alexander FINALLY Tell the Full Truth about the Section 215 Dragnet in Today’s Secret Emergency Hearing?
29. 23 JulDempsey Photo-Op With Karzai Illustrates Futility of SOFA Negotiations
30. 23 JulStudy Shows Cybertheft Really Isn’t the Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History
31. 23 JulDid the Government Change When — and How — It Minimized US Person Collections Since 2008?
32. 22 JulNSA’s PRISM and the Oddity of PalTalk
33. 20 JulSuperheroes and Monsters: The Truth in Today’s Blockbusters
34. 20 JulEblouissante Goes Up To Saratoga
35. 19 JulFourth Circuit Guts National Security Investigative Journalism Everywhere It Matters
36. 19 JulThe Shell Game: What is Microsoft Doing?
37. 18 JulDOJ’s News Media Policies Reserved the Authority to Force James Risen to Testify
38. 18 JulDid the FISA Court Approve the “Relevant To” Dragnet Collection before Congress Passed the PATRIOT Reauthorization?
39. 18 JulNegative Manning Decision and the Future of Investigative Journalism
40. 18 JulNasser al-Awlaki: “My Grandson Was Killed by His Own Government”
41. 18 JulNSA: The “Half-Bacon Agency”
42. 17 JulThe 3 Hop Scotch of Civil Liberties and Privacy
43. 17 JulWhat Does the Government Consider “Protected” First Amendment Activities?
44. 17 JulFailing Our Hoodies
45. 17 JulUnivision’s Follow-Up Question
46. 16 JulThe 8-FISA Judge 11-Docket Spying Authorization to Identify Less than $10,000 to Al-Shabaab
47. 16 JulCarl Levin’s Double Standard for Banksters and Spooks
48. 16 JulWhatever Should We Do About These New Biotechnology Capabilities?
49. 16 Jul“People in the Gulf” Talking on Skype
50. 16 JulHiding the 215 Index from Defendants, Too
51. 15 JulOn “Bullshit by Omission”
52. 15 JulGOP Not Anxious to End John Roberts’ Unilateral Reign Appointing FISA Judges
53. 15 JulShaker Aamer: “Guards Using Ramadan to Massage Numbers” on Gitmo Hunger Strike
54. 15 JulWherein Alexander the Great Conquers the World
55. 14 JulWas Inspire a British-Made Product?
56. 14 JulWhy “Members of the News Media” Should Welcome a Shield for the Act of Journalism
57. 13 JulWhat will John Brennan do, Suspend his operations?
58. 12 JulIn Bid to Placate Legacy Media, DOJ Moves Closer to Instituting Official Press
59. 12 JulChuck Schumer Must Want All American Brown Youth Stop and Frisked
60. 12 JulEdward Snowden Invokes Nuremberg in Defending His Actions
61. 12 JulNSA Undermines Past Leaked Narrative about Edward Snowden with New Ones
62. 12 JulWhy Has John Bogdan Not Yet Been Relieved of Command at Guantanamo?
63. 11 JulSpying on Americans: A “Team Sport” Since 2004
64. 11 JulThe Evil Empire
65. 11 JulMEK Stirs Pot in Iran Despite Improved Negotiation Outlook After Rohani’s Election
66. 11 JulDianne Feinstein Suggests President Obama Personally Violating Our Treaty Obligations
67. 11 JulUncomfortable Truth: The State Of Evidence in the George Zimmerman Prosecution
68. 11 JulCiting a Culture of “Verified Trust,” DefCon Asks Feds Not to Come
69. 10 Jul“Is This the New Espionage?” CBS Asks of Leaking Government Files, While Airing Leaked Government Video
70. 10 JulPCLOB: An Exercise in False Oversight
71. 10 JulThe Torture That Underlies FISA Court’s “Special Needs” Decisions
72. 10 JulMcKeon Too Low For Zero Option
73. 9 JulDid Umar Patek Lead the US to Osama bin Laden?
74. 9 JulFive Additional Questions for Jim Comey
75. 9 JulBradley Manning Defense: Good Data Miners Are Data Hogs
76. 9 JulFederal Court Strikes Down Obama DOJ’s State Secrets Defense
77. 8 JulAn EPIC Effort to Combat the Dragnet
78. 8 JulJudge Kessler to President Obama: Will You Save Gitmo Detainees from “Painful, Humiliating, and Degrading” Treatment?
79. 8 JulIt’s Not JUST the Shell Game of Moving Osama bin Laden Records–It’s Retroactive Classification of Them
80. 8 JulUS Big-Footing Extraterritoriality Again
81. 8 JulWhy Has the Intelligence Community Missed So Many Digital Bales of Hay?
82. 8 JulAfghanistan Claims Zakaria Kandahari Arrested Six Weeks Ago
83. 8 JulFISC Opinions as Legal Cover
84. 8 JulPopcorn Futures: Client No. 9 Versus Manhattan Madam in NY Comptroller Race
85. 7 JulIn These Times We Can’t Blindly Trust Government to Respect Freedom of Association
86. 7 JulFISC Already Invented that Database-and-Mining Precedent in Secret
87. 6 JulEdward Snowden’s Extradition Request
88. 5 JulFBI Retirees Warn against Jim Comey, Torture, and Indefinite Detention
89. 5 JulServing the Truth
90. 5 JulEurope again stuck saying, “They told us they were sure”
91. 5 JulThe Union Imperfect
92. 4 JulHappy Birthday, You Rebels!
93. 3 JulSWIFT: Big Brother with a Booz Assist, Only without the Paperwork
94. 3 JulTasers with Wings
95. 3 JulWyden and Udall: As with Torture, Intelligence Committee Lies about Efficacy
96. 2 JulResearcher Exposes Government, Military Lies About Civilian Drone Deaths in Afghanistan
97. 2 JulOn the Meanings of “Dishonor” and “Hack”
98. 2 JulTranspartisan Arguments the Government Won’t Want to Succeed
99. 1 JulGitmo Detainees Try to Force End to Force-Feeding in Time for Ramadan
100. 1 JulAlberto Gonzales and Internet Data Mining
101. 1 JulJames Clapper’s Double Super Secret Correction

June 2013

1. 30 JunThe 2009 Draft NSA IG Report Makes No Mention of One Illegal Practice
2. 30 JunWhat Happened to that Third Branch Oversight?
3. 30 JunOn the Refusal to Exercise Oversight over Vast Surveillance Programs, Episode 117
4. 29 JunYahoo, the Law-Abiding Free Email Provider
5. 29 JunDefense Department Ignores SIGAR, Orders Russian Helicopters in End-Run Around NDAA
6. 29 JunThe 14% Domestic Phone Content Collection under the Illegal Wiretap Program
7. 28 JunOMIGOD James Clapper Has Our Gun Purchase Records
8. 28 JunHow David Addington Hid the Document Implicating George Bush in Illegal Wiretapping
9. 27 JunShorter Mark Udall: Why Can’t John Brennan “Honor the Oath”?
10. 27 JunWorking Thread, NSA IG Report
11. 27 JunMetadata Oversight: “A Banner”!!!!!
12. 27 JunBREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly Inaccurate
13. 27 JunWho Was the Short-Sighted Personnel Guy at CIA Who Set up NYPD-on-the-Hudson in 2002?
14. 27 JunAfter Khalid el-Masri, Details Like Snowden’s Middle Name Matter
15. 27 JunThe FBI and CIA Unminimized Collections and the Holes in Article III Review of FISA Amendments Act
16. 26 JunKeith Alexander: “We Must Win, There Is No Substitute for Victory”
17. 26 JunThe Marriage Equality Decisions
18. 26 JunFISA Amendments Act Minimization: Preventing Serious Harm to Corporate Persons
19. 26 JunKeith Alexander’s Secret Lie: Retention and Distribution of Domestic Encrypted and Hacking Communications?
20. 25 JunNSA’s Querying of US Person Data, Take Two
21. 25 JunConfirmed: NSA Does Search Section 702 Data for Particular US Person Data
22. 25 JunTaliban Attack CIA Headquarters in Kabul
23. 25 JunShorter WaPo: It Would Take Months to Know about Spying Misconduct
24. 24 JunThe Day of Sentencing Judgment for Scott Bloch
25. 24 JunWyden & Udall to Alexander: Why Do You People Keep Lying?
26. 24 JunObama’s Stubbornness and the Risk of Snowden
27. 24 JunModerate Faction of Afghan Taliban Gains Visibility
28. 24 JunKeith Alexander’s “Packets in Flight” Turn Hackers into Terrorists
29. 24 JunRemember How Angry Russia Is about Viktor Bout
30. 22 JunFinding The Way To San Jose
31. 21 JunAaron Swartz, Plea Leveraging & The Bordenkircher Problem
32. 20 JunGovernment Spying: Why You Can’t ‘Just Trust Us’
33. 20 JunThe Intelligence Community’s Willful Ignorance about Americans Caught in 702 Surveillance
34. 20 JunDid “The Shooter” Take 7 Souvenir Pictures of Osama bin Laden?
35. 19 JunMinimization in the Age of Cyberwar
36. 19 JunSection 215 Dragnet: Again with the Passive Voice Oversight
37. 18 JunTerrorist Hobgoblins Bite the Intelligence Community in Its Efficacy Ass
38. 18 JunWhy Would You Segregate the FISA Orders, But Not the Directives?
39. 18 JunDOD’s Inspector General Disappears William McRaven’s “Purge”
40. 18 JunThe Truth: The NSA Has Been Working on Domestic Spying for Ten-Plus Years
41. 18 JunSaxby Chambliss Reveals the Game
42. 17 Jun5th Amendment Silence: One Day In Salinas We Let It Slip Away
43. 17 JunEdward Snowden: Congress Has Immunity from Spying, But You Don’t
44. 17 JunWar Criminal Afghan Army Chief of Staff Dostum Opens Fire on Member of Own Political Party
45. 17 JunJames Clapper Throws a Concentrated Nugget of Orwellian Turd-Splat
46. 17 JunSeeing Through the Blizzard to Utah: How Much Space Does Metadata Need
47. 16 JunThe CNET “Bombshell” and the Four Surveillance Programs
48. 16 JunShell Games: How to Keep Doing Internet Data Mining and Avoid the Courts
49. 16 JunTelecoms Versus the Toobz: The Source of the Legal Troubles
50. 16 JunNSA Spying: The Oversight of the Passive Voice
51. 16 JunTo Justify Dragnet, FBI Implies It Can’t File 300 More NSLs in a Year
52. 15 JunPRISM: The Difference between Orders and Directives
53. 15 JunThe Inefficacy of Big Brother: Associations and the Terror Factory
54. 14 JunAl Gore: Get Your Hands Off of My (Our?) Internet
55. 14 JunRuss Feingold: Yahoo Didn’t Get the Info Needed to Challenge the Constitutionality of PRISM
56. 14 JunWhat Does NCTC Do with NSA and FBI’s Newly Disclosed Databases?
57. 13 JunRobert Mueller’s Claims to Be Ignorant about Geolocation Probably Bullshit
58. 13 JunDOD, in 2015, after Next Big Leak: No More Removable Media
59. 13 JunHouse Intelligence Parrot: These Programs Are Not Secret…
60. 13 JunWho Are the Potential Targets of the OTHER Section 215 Program(s)
61. 13 JunBREAKING: Iran Is a Terrorist Organization
62. 12 JunNSA PRISM Slides: Notice Anything Unusual or Missing?
63. 12 JunIs the Section 215 Dragnet Limited to Terrorism Investigations?
64. 12 JunThe Section 215 Dragnet Started as Abusive Exigent Letter Practice Wound Down
65. 11 JunExigent Letters Timeline
66. 11 JunHave Clapper, Feinstein, and Rogers Confused the Distinct Issues of Section 215 and PRISM? Or Are They Indistinct?
67. 11 JunACLU, Another Civil Liberties Narcissist, Defends Its Own Freedom of Assembly, Speech
68. 11 JunGoogle Begs for Transparency
69. 11 JunStill No Answer on How Minh Quang Pham Materially Supported Terror While in Custody
70. 11 JunClapper Couldn’t Even Do Better Than “Least Untruthful” with a Day’s Notice
71. 11 JunCar Bomb Targeting Afghan Supreme Court Employees Kills at Least 14
72. 11 JunIf Wanting to Reveal that All Americans’ Metadata Gets Swept Up Is Treason, Edward Snowden Is in Distinguished Company
73. 10 JunSection 702 Is Used for Terror, Proliferation, AND Hacking
74. 10 JunJames Clapper Hails Checks and Balances While Treating Oversight “Too Cute by Half”
75. 10 JunIs Robert Mueller, a Purported Hero of the Hospital Confrontation, Responsible for Section 215 Use?
76. 10 JunNATO Supply Convoy Attacked in Pakistan Again
77. 9 JunTruck-sized Holes: Journalists Challenged by Technology Blindness
78. 9 JunAre Guardian’s Sources Responding to a New Use of Surveillance, Post-Boston?
79. 9 JunDianne Feinstein: We Need to Collect Data on Every Single American Because We Can’t Control Our Informants
80. 9 JunOnce Upon a Time the PRISM Companies Fought Retroactive Immunity
81. 8 JunWhat Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive on Cyberwar Says about NSA’s Relationship with Corporations
82. 8 JunMike Rogers: As Confused about Telecom Surveillance as He Is about Drone Strikes
83. 7 JunMeet 3 PATRIOT Act False Positives Investigated for Buying Beauty Supplies
84. 7 JunSide by Side: Timeline of NSA’s Communications Collection and Cyber Attacks
85. 7 JunJames Clapper’s Tip for Avoiding Lies: Don’t Do Talking Points
86. 7 JunWHO, Bill Gates and Islamic Scholars All Push For Polio Vaccination in Province Now Governed by Khan’s PTI
87. 6 JunJim Sensenbrenner’s Horseshit Claims of Innocence
88. 6 JunSection 215: The White House’s Bullshit Talking Points
89. 6 JunRon Wyden Calls Bullshit on Mike Rogers’ Claims
90. 6 JunPost-2014 NATO Mission in Afghanistan Has a Name, But No Enabling Agreement
91. 6 JunSection 215 Order Reveals Secrecy Only Serves to Prevent Court Challenge
92. 6 JunWhat an Overbroad Section 215 Order Looks Like
93. 5 JunDOD Inspector General Report: SOCOM Purged Their Osama bin Laden Files after Judicial Watch FOIA
94. 5 JunAl Pacino Couldn’t Protect CIA Headquarters
95. 5 JunSharif Officially Elected as Prime Minister, Calls For End to Drone Strikes
96. 5 JunLeon Panetta: Sheep Dipping Secrets
97. 5 JunMichael Hayden, Troll Extraordinaire
98. 4 JunPutin’s Congressional Puppets
99. 4 JunJournalists: Eric Holder Believes You’re Probably a Criminal But Won’t Charge You
100. 4 JunThe Latest Ploy to Avoid Federal and Presidential Records Act, FOIA
101. 4 JunAfghanistan Arrests Colonel For Turning Over Prisoners to Zakaria Kandahari
102. 3 JunManning Prosecution: I Don’t Think the Government’s Report Says What It Claims It Does
103. 3 JunAfghan Situation So Bad Propagandists Only Speak Of “Something That Could Still Resemble Victory”
104. 3 JunNavy v. Egan, not Just Branzburg v. Hayes, Needs Fixed
105. 2 JunBREAKING: Globalization Is Dangerous
106. 2 JunCommissary Cheap
107. 2 JunWhy Would the UndieBomber Make a Martyrdom Video in Arabic?
108. 1 JunClassification Games Hiding the Afghan Defeat

May 2013

1. 31 MayAPB: At Least Two Missing “Law Enforcement Personnel,” Last Seen at Ibragim Todashev Homicide Scene
2. 31 MayPress Freedom: It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word “Is” Is
3. 31 MayAs H7N9 Infections Wane, MERS-CoV Claims Thirtieth Victim
4. 30 MayScary Iran Plotter Gets 25 Years
5. 30 MayAmerican Drone War: Murder and Democracy
6. 30 MaySteven Seagal Helps Rohrabacher in Failed Quest to Visit “Chechnyans”
7. 30 MayCAIR-FL Calls for Investigation into Ibragim Todashev’s Killing
8. 30 MayWhen NYT Accused Jim Comey of Approving Torture
9. 29 MayAccused Panjwai Killer, Robert Bales, to Plead Guilty
10. 29 MayFBI’s Todashev Story Gets Stupider
11. 29 MayToday’s Pakistan Drone Strike Targeted Khost Blast Key Figure in CIA Revenge Killing
12. 28 MayNeoliberalism: A Failsafe Bulwark against Terrorism
13. 28 MayCompare DOD’s Autonomy to Engage in Cyber-War with Obama’s Close Control over DOD Drone Targeting
14. 28 MayTime to Out the Cyber-Insecure Defense Contractors
15. 28 MayTorquemada Pursued Suspected Muslims, Not Journalists
16. 28 MayGrowing Signs of Intelligence from Intelligence Community, or Just Another Turf War?
17. 28 MayPhilip Mudd Makes the Case for Signature Strikes against Banksters
18. 27 MayPutin: You Show Me Yours and … I Might Show You Mine
19. 26 MayWill the Saudis Let JSOC Take Over Yemeni Targeting?
20. 26 MayTime to End the Iraq War
21. 25 MayJahn Does Complete Reversal, Questions Sources Instead of Transcribing Iran Nuke Propaganda
22. 25 MayFast Times At Monaco High – Memorial Day Trash Talk
23. 24 MayFederal Judge Blasts Joe Arpaio’s Racial Profiling and Detention Policy
24. 24 MayTamerlan Tsarnaev: Not a Step by Step Investigation
25. 24 MayWhat “Not Specifically Targeted” Means for Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
26. 24 MaySomeone Hacked Our Memory: “Retaliation,” “Deterrence,” “Escalation”
27. 24 MayThe Reason Holder Recused in UndieBomb 2.0 Probably Relates to Reasons He Thinks It’s So Bad
28. 23 MayObama’s Finger Is On the Trigger Except Where It Matters
29. 23 MayObama (Almost) Capitulates to ACLU on Drone Killing Standards
30. 23 MayProgram US Heralds as Key to Afghan Stability Continues to Rely on Gang Rapes to Intimidate Locals
31. 23 MayIn Guilty Plea, Abdulmutallab Named Awlaki as Inspiration, Not as Co-Conspirator
32. 23 May“At the Highest Levels of the U.S. Government” … Like the President?
33. 22 May600 Days after Assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki, Administration Admits Doing So
34. 22 MayWe Have Always Been at War with Eastasia Adherents
35. 22 MayDid Solitary Confinement Make UndieBomber 1.0 Incompetent to Represent Himself?
36. 22 MayA Not-A-Drone-Strike Near Disney World
37. 22 MayPetraeus’ Coffee
38. 21 MayWhy Would the US Shield Fahd al-Quso in February 2012 But Drone Kill Him in May 2012?
39. 21 MayThe Laughable Currently Operative AP Pushback Story
40. 21 MayBody of Zakaria Kandahari’s Videotaped Torture Victim Surfaces, 200 Yards from US Nerkh Base
41. 20 MayThe James Rosen Affidavit Was the 20th Document in the Docket
42. 20 MayFirst They Came for James Risen …
43. 20 MayState Department, US Press Hide Important Karzai Statement on Bilateral Security Agreement
44. 20 MayObama’s Headlong Rush to Counterterrorism Transparency
45. 19 MayAP President Focuses on White House Claims about OBL Anniversary Threats
46. 17 MayHillary Said Appoint a Gitmo Champion; The Opposite Happened
47. 17 MayGroup Behind Deadly Kabul Blast Upset by Negotiations on US Troops Remaining in Afghanistan
48. 17 MayDid AP Learn about Fake UndieBomb 2.0 because Real Marshals Deployed to Prevent It?
49. 17 MayDzhokhar’s Sharpie Manifesto
50. 16 MayDOD Won’t Be Taking Over Drone Strikes Anytime Soon
51. 16 MayDid Tommy Vietor Hang Out CIA on UndieBomb 2.0?
52. 16 MayWhat Is the Attrition Rate for Afghan Special Operations Forces?
53. 16 MayThe Internet Didn’t Kill the Middle Class; Laxity and Apathy Did
54. 16 MayDear Eric Holder: You’re Doing Recusal Wrong
55. 15 MayThe White House’s Imminent Benghazi Coup de Grace
56. 15 MayThere’s a Place for Resolving Disputes, and the Administration Chose Not To Use It
57. 15 MayPutin’s Game
58. 15 MayPakistan’s Next Government Beginning to Take Shape
59. 15 MayScott Bloch Sentencing Blocked By The Court
60. 15 MayI Wonder What Fahd Al-Quso Thought of the AP’s UndieBomb 2.0 Story?
61. 14 MayAP Response to DOJ Reveals They COULDN’T Have Had Most Damaging Info Brennan Exposed
62. 14 MayIf UndieBomb 2.0 Is One of the Worst Leaks of Holder’s Career, Why Is John Brennan CIA Director?
63. 14 MayThe AP Grab: NSL versus Subpoena
64. 13 May“A Full Two Month Period” that Covers John Brennan’s Entire Drone Propaganda Campaign
65. 13 MayDOJ Goes Nuclear on Goldman and Apuzzo
66. 13 MayDid Declan Walsh Get Expelled from Pakistan because He Provided Drone Cover for Brennan’s Confirmation?
67. 13 MayThe Sabotage Attack on the Syrian Coalition
68. 13 MayNYTimes Carefully Transcribes Dubious Denials of US Role in Wardak Province Torture, Murders
69. 13 MayHailing Carmen Ortiz While Ignoring Several Amendments
70. 12 MayWhat Are the Secrets that Will Remain Hidden in Benghazi?
71. 11 MayBenghazi Talking Points: Petraeus’ Revenge
72. 11 MayThe Ongoing Tsarnaev Investigation
73. 10 MayReal ID Biometrics in Immigration Bill
74. 10 MayMike Bloomberg’s Fondness for Spying Extends to the Banksters
75. 10 MaySome Canadian Bacon Is More Equal than Some Carnitas
76. 9 MayPeshawar High Court Rules US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Are Illegal, Comprise War Crimes
77. 9 MayHarold Koh Relitigates the Argument He Already Lost
78. 9 MayShorter Mac Thornberry: the Armed Services Committees Do Oversight, Not Intelligence
79. 9 MayJohn Galt’s Trail of Death and Destruction Continues to Grow
80. 9 MayDeclaring “Wars” the President Didn’t Ask For
81. 8 MaySheldon Whitehouse: Cybertheft Is [May Be] Biggest Transfer of Wealth in History
82. 8 MayImran Khan Injured, Doctors Order Rest Ahead of Saturday’s Election
83. 7 MayHuman Rights Groups to Obama: Don’t Let John Brennan Cover Up the Torture He Condoned
84. 7 MayDunford Once Again Shows Complete Lack of Budget Awareness
85. 7 MayBrennan Cedes to Feinstein on Torture Tape Destroyer But “Defiant” on Torture Report
86. 7 MayFormer Bush Special Counsel Scott Bloch Bullies Journalists and Threatens 1st Amend Speech Before Criminal Sentencing
87. 7 MayThe Folks Who Brought You Military Detention in the NDAA Are Rewriting the AUMF
88. 6 MayG-Men Want Mike Rogers to Lead FBI
89. 6 MayHow Do You Abet Terrorism While Working a 70 Hour Work Week?
90. 6 MaySad Victory for Pakistan’s Taliban: Child Diagnosed With Polio in Region Where Vaccinations Were Denied
91. 5 MayThe Blame Game Begins: Who Will Be Held Responsible for Creating the Afghan “Vertically Integrated Criminal” Government?
92. 4 MayThe Find Every Terrorist at Any Cost Industry
93. 3 MayShorter FBI: You’re a Threat to “Community” If You Want to Kill the Same Guy US Government Wants to Kill
94. 3 MayThe Transnational Crime Organizations the Presidents Didn’t Mention
95. 2 MayWith Bradbury’s Appendix M Opinion and 7th Circuit Vance Decision, the Government Can Torture Any of Us
96. 2 MayThe FBI’s Evidence Against the Genius Who Framed Elvis
97. 2 MayMaybe Dzhokhar’s Buddies Just Wanted a Job at HSBC?
98. 2 MayStephen Cambone, Hacker PWN, Used to Head DOD’s “Intelligence”
99. 1 MayMark Udall to Obama: You Can Force John Brennan to “Excise the Demons”
100. 1 MayIf 40 Months of Drone Strikes in Yemen Haven’t Made Transfers Safe …
101. 1 MayEven With Non-Validated Afghan Self-Reporting, SIGAR Finds ANSF Falls Short of 352,000 Goal
102. 1 MayThe Saudi Intelligence without a Name

April 2013

1. 30 AprMohamedou Ould Slahi’s Gitmo Memoir: A Slow Death
2. 30 AprObama: We’re Force-Feeding Cleared Detainees Because We Couldn’t Try Them in Civilian Courts
3. 30 AprExploitation and High Value Interrogation Group
4. 30 AprMusharraf Banned from Politics for Life As Violence Flairs in Pakistan Ahead of Elections
5. 29 AprTsarnaev: Right to Counsel, Not Miranda, Is the Key
6. 29 AprHackers Penetrate Freedom; The Ship Has Already Sailed
7. 29 AprFacebook a Better Spook than Ray Kelly
8. 29 AprCIA Bags O’ Cash Total Tens of Millions of Dollars, But Over $4.5 Billion Left Afghanistan in 2011
9. 28 AprWhen a Counter- Terrorism Narcotic Partner Asks for a Divorce
10. 27 AprDid an Intelligence Asset Persuade Abdulrahman al-Awlaki to Search for His Father?
11. 26 AprHas OLC Written Memos Authorizing Illegal Wiretapping Again?
12. 26 AprFeinstein Calls for Review of Her Moratorium on Release of Yemeni Prisoners from Gitmo
13. 25 AprArticle I Aghast that Article III Insisted on Separation of Powers
14. 25 AprEven as He Joins Tribute to George W. Bush, Obama Capitulates to WMD Fearmongers
15. 25 AprCox on Rogers: “Like he was J. Edgar Hoover”
16. 25 AprJohn Galt Outsources Death to Bangladesh to Save Pennies on Fifty Dollar T-shirt
17. 25 AprWas There Even a BB Gun?
18. 24 AprTamerlan Tsarnaev Placed in Database Perceived as Weak, Even by DHS
19. 24 AprThe Intelligence Committee’s “Secret” Briefings on the Boston Attack
20. 24 AprAre We Confusing CIA’s Leader-Centered Collection and Debates about Its Paramilitary or Military Focus?
21. 24 AprThe “Conspiracy Theory” That Prompted Kevin Curtis’ Earlier Letters to Politicians
22. 24 AprDrone Strikes: Misunderstanding Asymmetry
23. 23 AprInspire, Hijacking, and the Second Car
24. 23 AprFor Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama, Diplomacy Still Afterthought in Afghanistan
25. 23 AprJohn Brennan’s Review of How He Killed an American Teenager
26. 22 AprThe Dzhokhar Complaint
27. 22 AprDzhokhar Charged, Administration Confirms Civilian Prosecution
28. 22 AprTwo Years after Missing Abdulmutallab because of a Spelling Variance, Government Missed Tsarnaev because of a Spelling Variance
29. 22 AprOutsourcing America’s Bad Human Rights Reputation
30. 22 AprJohn Galt Is Everywhere and His Killing Spree Continues
31. 22 Apr“Could Not Be Independently Confirmed”
32. 21 AprThe Shut-Down Question
33. 20 AprDzhokhar Tsarnaev: The Big Issue Is Not Miranda, It’s Presentment
34. 19 AprApril Snows Bring May Outrage: Record Flooding Ahead
35. 19 AprMeanwhile, Across the Globe…
36. 19 AprCAIR-MI Alleges the FBI Engaged in a Cover-Up in Imam Abdullah Luqman’s Death
37. 18 AprNo, Arkansas, Medicaid Is Not an “Entitlement.” It’s a Giant WalMart Subsidy
38. 18 AprJohn Kerry Finally Meets a Close Election He Wants to Recount
39. 18 AprJohn Galt Kills Texans in Massive Fertilizer Plant Explosion
40. 18 AprIs the Government Going to Claim Bradley Manning “Harmed” the US by Exposing Drone Details?
41. 17 AprHouse Judiciary Makes (Partial) Progress on Drones, But Not the Senate
42. 17 AprThe Downside of Losing Blabby Brennan as Homeland Security Czar
43. 17 AprClaire McCaskill: Why Aren’t We Calling Sandy Hook Terror?
44. 17 AprSenate Armed Services Committee Enters Fantasyland in Hearing on Afghanistan Withdrawal
45. 17 AprAt Gitmo, Captain John Makes Sure Detainees Don’t Get “An Overabundance of Things”
46. 16 AprEven Bipartisan Conventional Wisdom Report Says It Was Torture
47. 16 AprAfter Over 23 Requests, Congress Draws Closer to Issuing Subpoenas
48. 16 AprMassive Earthquake Strikes Troubled Balochistan Region
49. 16 AprOver 54,000 More Americans Added to Security Clearance Rolls in Last Year
50. 15 AprIf It Was Wrong to Force-Feed Terri Schiavo, Why Is It Right to Force-Feed Gitmo Detainees?
51. 15 AprThe White House Decides Maybe They’re Not “Targeted Killings” After All
52. 15 AprNew York Times Runs Powerful Op-Ed By Gitmo Prisoner
53. 14 AprAndy Card LOL: Bush Can’t Pardon Himself for Torture (But Obama Has)
54. 14 AprJohn Bogdan: The Face of the Guantanamo Crackdown
55. 13 AprAmerica’s Human Rights Abusers: John Yoo, David Addington, and Bout’s Prosecution Team
56. 12 AprTen Human Rights Groups Unified in Opposition to Drone and/or Targeted Killing Court
57. 12 AprScott Shane Defends the Commander-in-Chief’s Language
58. 12 AprICRC President Visits Obama, Brennan, Hagel Regarding “International Humanitarian Law”
59. 12 AprI Hate to Say I Told You So, John Brennan Covering Up Torture Report Edition
60. 11 AprAfter Continued Blow-Off, House Judiciary Requests Awlaki AND Signature Strike Memos
61. 11 AprJohn Brennan Says All the Bad Reports about CIA Are Inaccurate
62. 11 AprAfghanistan Confirms Eleven Children Killed in April 6 NATO Air Strike
63. 11 AprHuffPost Live on Drone Strikes
64. 10 AprBureau of Prisons Can’t Decide Whether There Is, Or Is Not, a First Amendment
65. 10 AprIf the IRS Obtains E-Mails without a Warrant, Then Will People Freak Out?
66. 10 AprCIA’s Drone Lies and Congressional Oversight
67. 10 AprH7N9 Continues Slow Spread, Animal Reservoir Still Uncertain
68. 9 AprThe Extra Drone Dead: Covert Actions or Side Payments?
69. 9 AprOLC’s Overseers Will Get to See Their Handiwork
70. 9 AprWhich Came First, Unilateral Strikes or Signature Strikes?
71. 9 AprRay Davis as a Stand-In for the War between CIA, ISI, and State
72. 9 AprNavy Releases Cartoon of New Laser Weapon After Non-Productive P5+1 Talks
73. 8 AprWashington Post Tries to Ram Petraeus Down Our Throats Again
74. 8 AprObama on Drones: Silence
75. 6 AprOnce Again, Congress Reads Stuff It Should Have Received from the Administration in NYT
76. 6 AprFinal Four Championship Trash Talk
77. 5 AprDaniel McGowan to Return to Halfway House
78. 5 AprShanghai Culls Poultry as H7N9 Spreads, But Relevant US Research Remains Suspended Due to Security Theater
79. 5 AprWhen the Preet Promotion Industry Speaks, the Nation Gets Nervous
80. 4 AprThe Price One Pays to Post at HuffPo
81. 4 AprVirginLeak
82. 4 AprFast Food Workers: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy by Striking
83. 4 AprH7N9: A New Influenza Virus Emerges
84. 4 AprWhere Were These Dems Asking about CIA-on-the-Hudson During Brennan’s Confirmation?
85. 3 AprNation Building with Special Forces
86. 3 AprMexican Cartels: The Counter-Globalized Network?
87. 3 AprYet Another Taliban Attack Using Afghan National Army Uniforms
88. 3 AprSequester: A Two-Year Competitive Advantage for the Military-Industrial Complex
89. 2 AprPulling Weeds for Think Tank Employees: My Response to Wittes’ Response
90. 2 AprMilitary’s Information Operation Against Gitmo Hunger Strike Breaks Down
91. 2 AprProsecuting Our Own Conspiracies
92. 1 AprBen Wittes Relies on Obviously False Document to Claim Other Document False
93. 1 AprAfghan Supply Route Problem Becomes Exit Route Problem

March 2013

1. 31 MarThe Warsame Model
2. 31 MarThe Perils of “Strategic Messaging”
3. 30 MarThe Moral Rectitude Torture Cover-Up Promotion Czar
4. 29 MarJust How Special Are Afghan Special Forces?
5. 28 MarOdds and Ends
6. 28 MarICRC Visits Gitmo Early in Midst of Hunger Strike, New Controversy Over Drinking Water
7. 27 MarSIGAR: Widely Cited 352,000 ANSF Force Size Is Not Validated
8. 27 MarDOMA’s Day At The Supremes
9. 26 MarThe Prop 8 Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court
10. 26 MarThe Case Against Marriage Equality Backlash
11. 25 MarNorth Korea and the Bush Administration’s Toxic Legacy
12. 25 MarOnce Again, US Pretends to Hand Over Control of Parwan Prison, Holds Back Some Prisoners
13. 25 MarA Path To Civil Rights History For the Supreme Court, Obama and Verrilli
14. 24 MarIdentity Problem: Blind Journalism, Uninformed Technology, and Cory Booker
15. 23 MarIdentity Problem: The Delamination of the American Left
16. 23 MarBracket Busters and Odds and Ends Trash Talk
17. 22 MarMilitary Continues Efforts to Hide True Scope of Guantanamo Hunger Strike
18. 22 MarAdd Sovereign Citizens Who Have to Play by Rules HSBC Doesn’t
19. 22 MarGone Fishin’ Hikin’, Ham, and Bourbon-in’
20. 21 MarThe National Security Advisor Exception Under the Espionage Act
21. 21 MarDisposition Matrix: $5 Million Rewards in Lieu of Kill Lists?
22. 21 MarVote For A Winner – Vote Emptywheel!!
23. 21 MarFresh Allegations of Torture in Bahrain
24. 21 MarYemeni Government Intensifies Harassment of Journalist Who Presented Counter-Evidence to US Case against Awlaki
25. 21 MarPivot, Damnit!
26. 20 MarFifth Terrorist Detainee Brought into Civilian Courts
27. 20 MarBreaking! Brennan Extends No Rule Drones for 2 Years
28. 20 MarAgreement Announced on Special Operations Forces in Wardak Province, Explanations Vary Widely
29. 19 MarDick Cheney’s Biggest Strategic Failure
30. 19 MarEmergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s Nanny Factory
31. 19 MarIran Reports Talks on Resuming Consular Relations With UK
32. 18 MarAn Angry Mother on Steubenville and Parenting
33. 18 MarThe Last Iraqi WMD Prisoner: The Scientist Who Tried to Reveal on March 2, 2003 He Destroyed the CW/BW
34. 18 MarWhy Would Jeh Johnson Suggest the Drone and/or Targeted Killing Court Would Be Bipartisan?
35. 18 MarBen Emmerson: Dupe on Two Continents, or Politically Savvy Diplomat?
36. 18 MarWere Commercial Flights to Guantanamo Ended to Cut Off Coverage of Hunger Strike?
37. 18 MarAccording to James Clapper, John Brennan Is a Leaker
38. 17 MarCIA Continues to Cover Up Dick Cheney’s War-Mongering
39. 17 MarCongratulations to Pakistan for Peaceful Transfer of Civilian Power the Military Ignores
40. 16 MarThe Dictator Taking on Detroit’s So-Called Deadbeats Is One Himself
41. 16 MarFormula One Trash Talk: The Circus Comes To Oz Town
42. 15 MarDC Circuit Sends CIA’s Glomar Claims Back to the Drawing Board
43. 15 MarUS Drones Over Persian Gulf Now Have Escorts
44. 15 MarPakistan Undercuts America’s Drone War
45. 14 MarJohn Roberts: Second Class Citizen
46. 14 MarAh, But Are You Like George W. Bush?
47. 14 MarTragic Loss in Pakistan: Parveen Rehman Gunned Down
48. 14 MarTommy Vietor and I Exchange On the Record Non-Dickish Comments
49. 13 MarStephen Heymann Involved in Swartz Investigation before Arrest
50. 13 MarWikiLeaks Will Be Nothing Compared to FinCENLeaks
51. 13 MarLeahy and Grassley Promise to Stop Pussy-Footing on OLC Memo Transparency
52. 13 MarThe Ideological Diversity Behind Demands for Targeted Killing or Drone Oversight and Transparency
53. 13 MarWarrick Parrots US Documentation of Iran-al Qaeda Rift, Ignores Larger Iran-Saudi Arabia Context
54. 12 MarThe Global War on Wayward Knuckleheads
55. 12 MarMark Udall: Leakers on Senate Intelligence Torture Report Got Facts Wrong
56. 12 MarJames Clapper Sneaks Climate Change — But Not Bankster Speculation — Into His Threat Assessment
57. 12 MarNo SOFA? Then Transition Death Squad Control from Special Operations to CIA
58. 12 MarThe Bipartisan Effort to Keep Robert Mueller on at FBI Starts
59. 12 MarA Partial Defense of Bill Keller’s Column on Manning
60. 11 MarThat Makes Over 21 Requests by 31 Members of Congress, Mr. President
61. 11 MarThe Author of the White Paper, Stuart Delery, Argues Selective, Misleading Disclosures Should Not Be Checked by FOIA
62. 11 MarSomehow DOD Kept Missing Anwar al-Awlaki
63. 11 MarIran, Pakistan Break Ground on Gas Pipeline, Capping Horrible Week for US in Region
64. 11 Mar18 USC 1119 Foreign Murder and Obama Targeted Kill White Paper
65. 10 MarIs Stuart Delery the One Who Flubbed DOJ’s FOIA Response?
66. 10 MarAnwar al-Awlaki Is the New Aluminum Tube
67. 10 MarThe NYT Grants David Barron and Marty Lederman a Mulligan on 18 USC 1119
68. 9 MarPrison Handover Agreement Blows Up, Again, During Hagel’s First Visit to Afghanistan Quagmire
69. 8 MarJohn Brennan Sworn in as CIA Director Using Constitution Lacking Bill of Rights
70. 8 MarHouse Intelligence Committee Moves to Learn How OTHER Services Don’t Throw Away Incidental US Person Data
71. 8 MarHow Long Was Abu Ghaith Detained in Jordan? Was He Tortured There?
72. 8 MarThe Script Opposing Declassification of the Torture Report Continues to Roll Out
73. 7 MarCarl Levin Takes on Tax Cheats and Dark Money in Retirement Statement
74. 7 Mar“Engaged in Combat”
75. 7 MarSnowpocalypse and Obama’s Drone Talk
76. 7 MarGuardian Lays Out Details of How Petraeus Organized Death Squads in Iraq
77. 7 MarDemocrats Refuse Non-Binding Resolution Limiting Presidential Drones against Non-Combatants, Too
78. 6 MarWondering Wednesday: Suicide in Singapore, Drone Over Brooklyn, and Telco Tattlers
79. 6 MarEric Holder Invokes Article II in Suggesting Congress Can’t Legislate Lethal Force
80. 6 MarKarzai Claims Final Handover of Parwan Prison Coming, Will Release “Innocents”
81. 6 MarIncapacitating Terrorists in the US: the FBI’s Job
82. 6 MarForbes’ Flawed Report on NPR and Sourcing by Gender
83. 5 MarThe Cost of Bullshit: Climate Change, National Security, and Inaction
84. 5 MarDetroit’s Emergency and Its Institute of the Arts
85. 5 MarDid Pakistan Carry Out Its Own Drone Strikes?
86. 4 MarWho Turned over the Google Group Conversations Involving Aaron Swartz?
87. 4 MarQuinn Norton’s Testimony
88. 4 MarNasr Pierces Obama’s Diplomacy Mirage
89. 4 MarOutsourcing Drug War Disappearances to Mexico
90. 3 MarYes, the Government Does Believe the Military Can Use Military Force in the US
91. 3 MarOnce Again, Lying to Courts to Protect Banks Goes Unpunished
92. 2 MarWill Climate Change become National Security Issue before It’s Too Late?
93. 1 MarCount Von Count Counts 20 Times the Administration Has Blown Off Targeted Killing Memo Requests
94. 1 MarShorter Rick Snyder: Black People Can Be Customers, Not Citizens
95. 1 MarThe Traditional Press’ Blind Spot in Aiding the Enemy
96. 1 MarFurther Reflections on the Obama Amicus Brief in Prop 8
97. 1 MarLanny Breuer Enters the Free Agent Market
98. 1 MarZoe Lofgren Didn’t Vote to Let Presidents Wage Unlimited War, But John Yoo Did

February 2013

1. 28 FebThe Obama DOJ Files a Timid Brief in Perry/Prop 8!
2. 28 FebSecret Service Claims It’s Still Investigating Now-Deceased Aaron Swartz
3. 28 FebACLU, Obama’s White Whale
4. 28 FebThe Targeted Killing Memos Shared with NYT, But Not Senate Intelligence Committee
5. 27 FebDoes This Explain Why Minh Quang Pham Is Languishing Away?
6. 27 FebObama Administration Stokes Embers of GOP Interest in Oversight by Blowing Off Targeted Killing Hearing
7. 27 FebThe Blowback Inherent to Network Analysis Kill Lists
8. 27 FebInsider Attack Kills Seventeen at Afghan Local Police Post Staffed Under New Screening Program
9. 27 FebObama, Holder, Verrilli and the Mark of Civil Rights History
10. 26 FebCourts Won’t Be Reviewing Legality of Counterterrorism Programs Anytime Soon
11. 26 FebWhat Is the Overlap between Signature Strikes and “Side Payment” Counter-Insurgency Drone Strikes?
12. 26 FebJSOC or CIA? Secrecy Inherent in US GWOT Impedes Wardak Investigation
13. 26 FebThe Repeated Concern about Brennan: His Ties to Saudis
14. 25 FebDiFi Makes Her Point … Maybe?
15. 25 FebThe Most Transparent Administration Ever Hides More OLC Opinions
16. 25 FebUS Media Shocked–Shocked!!–by Press Secretary’s Glomar on Drones
17. 25 FebDOD Uses Sequester to Excuse 5 Year Delay in Implementing Basic Network Security
18. 25 FebKarzai Expels Special Operations Forces From Afghan Province Over Program at Heart of Petraeus’ “Success”
19. 24 FebWhat if China Not Just Hacked — But Sabotaged — the F-35?
20. 23 FebDOJ Used the Open Access Guerilla Manifesto to Do More than Justify Prosecution, They Justified a Search of Aaron Swartz’ Home
21. 23 FebJohn Yoo and the Obama White Paper and Killing Americans in America and Yemen
22. 22 FebThe White House’s Self-Authorization to Use Military Force in Algeria and Mali
23. 22 FebObama Administration Not Meeting Transparency Standard Set by Bush Lawyer Steven Bradbury
24. 22 FebHarold Koh and the First Office of Legal Counsel Memo
25. 22 FebNATO Wants US to Buy $22 Billion SOFA in Afghanistan
26. 22 FebDOJ Gives Blackwater a Whitewash On Felony Charges
27. 22 FebDid Susan Collins Switch Parties? Cause She Wanted OLC Memos, Too
28. 21 FebDisappearances Are Back. Is the US Involved (Again)?
29. 21 FebTargeted Killing Timeline
30. 21 FebShorter Neal Katyal: Please Appoint Me Judge!
31. 21 FebRick Scott Continues Struggle to Look Human, Endorses Medicaid Expansion While Infuriating Tea Party
32. 21 FebWhite House Capitulates to Benghazi Truthers Rather Than Coming Clean on Targeted Killing
33. 20 FebObama’s Treasury Department: Our Sanctions Regime Is SEKRIT
34. 20 FebDepartment of Pre-Crime, Part 4: The NDAA Congress Is Not About to Legislate Targeted Killing
35. 20 FebAfghanistan Kills Yet Another Military Career: Allen to Retire
36. 19 FebJane Harman Now Targeting Individual CyberTargets with Drone Court
37. 19 FebWhy So Surprised? CIA, U.S. Military Knew Chinese Hackers Expected Since 1999
38. 19 FebWhat a Targeted Killing in the US Would Look Like
39. 18 FebMonday Mess: Moar Dronz, Gen Killz, (Horse)Meatz, and Clownz
40. 18 FebThe AUMF Fallacy
41. 18 FebPakistan Signs Gwadar Port Over to China Despite Rohrabacher’s Meddling
42. 18 FebIs This Why the Press Finally Revealed the Saudi Drone Base?
43. 17 FebColleen McMahon: The Covert Op that Killed Anwar al-Awlaki Was Illegal
44. 17 FebThe War and Intelligence behind Anwar al-Awlaki’s Targeting
45. 17 FebSunday Buffet: Domestic Drones, Cosmic Clouts, and More
46. 16 FebThe CIA Glomared Their Own Public Speech
47. 16 FebThe “Darker Side” to Dual Citizenship
48. 15 FebJohn Brennan Refuses to Deny the Government Collects US Person Data with No Predicate
49. 15 FebBrennan Continues to Stonewall on His Own Leaks
50. 15 FebIs This a Benghazi Question?
51. 15 FebDianne Feinstein Commits the Drone and/or Targeted Killing Fallacy
52. 15 FebLamar Smith: It’s Critical to Invest in Space Balls, But Not Climate Change
53. 15 FebDepartment of Pre-Crime, Part 3: What Law Would the Drone (and/or Targeted Killing) Court Interpret?
54. 15 FebEnjoy A Valentine’s Day Sampler
55. 15 FebObama’s Reverse Imaginary Friend, the Assassination Robot
56. 14 FebAlleged Wacko Rand Paul Asks Serious Questions about Targeted Killings
57. 14 FebDid CIA OCA Censor Another Court Transmission?
58. 14 FebThe Benghazi Truthers and the OLC Hold-Outs
59. 13 FebHas the Government Left Minh Quang Pham “Languishing Forever”?
60. 13 FebHypothetically Speaking: Immigration Reform and the Threat to Citizenship
61. 13 FebHow Many of the Seven Missing OLC Opinions Authorize Targeted Killing in Unknown Countries?
62. 13 FebDoes Obama Plan on Killing More Americans Once He Has FISA Drone (and/or Targeting Killing) Court?
63. 13 FebDepartment of Pre-Crime, Part Two: The FISA Court Is Broken
64. 13 FebObama Still Clinging to 352,000 Afghan National Security Force Size Myth
65. 12 FebObama Will Propose New Efforts to Make Our Creaky Physically Dangerous Critical Infrastructure CyberSafe
66. 12 FebSetting Up a Department of Pre-Crime, Part One: Why Are We Doing This?
67. 12 FebDid Logistics Guy John Brennan Set Up the Torture Taping System? Did He Buy the Torture Coffin?
68. 12 FebWill North Korean Bomb Test Provide Opening for Nuclear Negotiations with Iran?
69. 11 FebInnocent Until Proven Guilty; Imminent Until Proven — Too Late!
70. 11 FebCables, Confirmed
71. 11 FebJohn Brennan Can’t Even Last One 3-Hour Hearing without Engaging in Information Asymmetry
72. 11 FebFive Years or Five Months? Sex Charge Sentence Depends on Which WMD Theater Team is Chosen
73. 11 FebGarbage In, Garbage Out: The Problem with a FISA Drone Court
74. 10 FebThey Knew the Evidence against Anwar al-Awlaki Was Weak When They Killed Him
75. 9 FebArticle II or AUMF? “A High Level Official” (AKA John Brennan) Says CIA Can Murder You
76. 9 FebCIA Director Petraeus’ Traditional Military Operations
77. 9 FebIs One of the Anwar al-Awlaki Memos a Revised Imminence Standard?
78. 8 FebWhen Bob Goodlatte Joins the Chorus Demanding the Memos…
79. 8 FebEvery Laptop and Cell Phone in Detroit (and Dearborn) Can Be Searched at Will
80. 8 FebDid Administration Stall Congressional Oversight Just to Beat ACLU in Court?
81. 8 FebMembers of Congress Have Asked for the Targeted Killing Memos 14 15 18 Times 19 Times
82. 8 FebPatrick Leahy Is Confused
83. 8 FebOne of Just Four Overseers on Drone Targeting Believes First Amendment Protected Activities Merit Execution
84. 7 FebJohn Brennan Decimates the Logic of Drone Program
85. 7 FebHow Can We Say John Brennan “Kept Us Safe”?
86. 7 FebIran Claims to Decode Imagery From Captured RQ-170 But Image Quality Sucks
87. 7 FebFive Questions for John Brennan
88. 7 FebJohn Brennan, Unplugged
89. 7 FebBreaking: Most Journalists Mis-Report Release of OLC Memos
90. 6 FebThe Administration’s Drafty Secrecy Claims
91. 6 FebCrystal River Crack: The Moral Hazard of Private Utility Companies
92. 6 FebDianne Feinstein’s Limited Hang-Out
93. 6 FebRiyadh Station Chief Operated Drone War from and for His Old Stomping Grounds
94. 6 FebSecretary of State John Kerry, Our Newest “General” Leading Cambodia 2.0
95. 5 FebWhite Paper Cites John Brennan Speech Defending Import of Transparency, FOIA, Declassified OLC Memos
96. 5 FebThe Timing of the White Paper
97. 5 FebFlorida Republicans Just Can’t Stop Tilting Playing Field in Their Favor
98. 5 FebThis Isn’t the Memo You’re Looking For
99. 5 FebDOJ Tells Judges to Go Fuck Themselves
100. 5 FebIm-mi-nent: (Adj, DOJ) 20 Months
101. 4 FebWill Senators Filibuster Chuck Hagel’s Nomination to Get the Targeted Killing Memo?
102. 4 FebMr. Moral Rectitude’s Sleazy Payment
103. 4 FebWhen All You Have Is a CyberHammer, You Have to Expect to Go to War against Nails
104. 4 FebJohn McCain, Space Monkeys and Model Planes
105. 4 FebOur Illegal Drone Program
106. 4 FebBrennan Approved Signature Strikes in Yemen because of “Personal Appeals”
107. 4 FebAfter Talking about Restoring Trust in CIA, Panetta Lies about the Young Woman’s Drone Death that Led to Khost
108. 3 FebThe Torture Apologists Ignore the 4,000 Americans They Killed
109. 2 FebSuper Bowl 47 Trash Talk: The Harbowling
110. 1 FebThe International Manhunt for WikiLeaks
111. 1 FebMohammed bin Nayef’s Remarkable Prescience about Obama’s Second Term Cabinet
112. 1 FebDOJ: We Can’t Tell Which Secret Application of Section 215 Prevents Us From Telling You How You’re Surveilled
113. 1 FebHagel Hearing: Twilight of the Neocons Makes Senate Armed Services Committee Dysfunctional
114. 1 FebDid Zero Dark Thirty Accidentally Tell the Most Dangerous Truth?
115. 1 FebMohamed Osman Mohamud Found Guilty

January 2013

1. 31 JanThe Kangaroo Court Unplugged
2. 31 JanAnother Republican Lawyer Warns Obama about Legal Problems
3. 31 JanLevin’s Fifth Question: Chain of Command under Title 10
4. 31 JanThe Diplomat to Jahn, Dahl IAEA Leak Pipeline on Iran Opens Once Again
5. 30 JanMaybe John Brennan Didn’t Want to Talk about CIA Lying to Congress?
6. 30 JanSlam Dunk’s Deputy: John Brennan’s “an Honest Guy”
7. 30 JanBill Schuette Labels Random Serial Shooting Terrorism
8. 30 JanAcknowledgement of Failure in Afghanistan Spreads Throughout US Government
9. 30 JanLanny Breuer Now Blames 94 US Attorneys for Immunizing Banksters
10. 29 JanImagine How Future Parents Will Respond to Concerns about Their Son’s Radicalization
11. 29 JanSherrod Brown and Chuck Grassley Watch Frontline, Too
12. 29 JanJohn Brennan’s Kangaroo Court
13. 29 JanWill Guantanamo Judge Reveal Identity of Monday’s “Big Brother” Censor?
14. 29 JanWhy Is State Waiting to Release the Saudi Technical Cooperation Agreement?
15. 29 JanMonths after Intelligence Community IG Accepts Budget Cut, He Pleads Resource Limitations on Oversight Request
16. 28 JanRather than Close Gitmo, We’ll Just Intercept More Medical Goods for Iran
17. 28 Jan16 Words: The New York Times has learned that the US recently sought a drone base in Niger
18. 28 JanJames Jones’ Targeted Killing Memo
19. 28 JanMedical Impact of US Sanctions Drives Iran’s Need for 20% Enriched Uranium
20. 27 JanThe 2011 DIOG Permits Using NSLs to Get Journalist Contacts
21. 26 JanMohammed bin Nayef’s Debutante Ball
22. 25 JanSheldon Adelson Should Have Saved His Cash
23. 25 JanObama Recess Appointments Slapped Down by DC Circuit, CFPB At Risk
24. 25 JanLisa Monaco Moves On without Fulfilling Promise to Reveal FISA Court Opinions
25. 25 JanCIA’s Torturers Get Their Scalp
26. 25 JanKerry Resists Rand Paul on Pakistan Funding Question
27. 25 JanJack Goldsmith, Open Source OLC Lawyer, to Obama: You’re Breaking the Law
28. 25 JanPraising by Damned Faintness: The NSAs, SoSs, and SoDs Who Didn’t Endorse Chuck Hagel
29. 24 JanDHS: Happy to Spend $$ To Keep People Out, But Not Illicit Trade
30. 24 JanFailed Filibuster Reform Doesn’t Only Affect Partisan Relationships
31. 24 JanAre We to Believe Samir Khan’s Communications Were Used as a Tripwire, but Awlaki’s Weren’t?
32. 24 JanPakistan Supreme Court Condemns Indefinite Detention Without Charges
33. 23 JanDay after Frontline Exposure, Lanny Breuer Resignation Reported
34. 23 JanRon Wyden: There Is More than One Targeted Killing Memo
35. 23 JanDrone Fallout in Pakistan; Falling Drone in Afghanistan
36. 23 JanCrowd of Unilateral Lawyers Applaud Unilateral Operator
37. 23 JanWeeping For the Scarecrow
38. 22 JanDennis Blair and Drone Targeting
39. 22 JanRather than Lying to Congress, CIA Now Blows It Off
40. 22 JanSenate Intelligence Torture Report: CIA Lied to the White House and the Public
41. 22 JanWhy Should We Believe the Fine Rhetoric in Obama’s Inauguration Address?
42. 21 JanDid the MIT Police Stake Out Aaron Swartz’ Home on January 6, 2011?
43. 21 JanThis Term’s Inauguration Day Order: Nominate Drone Assassination Czar CIA Director
44. 21 JanSeneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall
45. 21 JanUN Notes That Ending Torture Requires Accountability. Too Bad They Are Talking About Afghanistan.
46. 21 JanLeaked Details of MIT Investigation
47. 20 JanJohn Brennan’s Rules: John Brennan Doesn’t Have to Play by the Rules
48. 20 JanChampionship Sunday NFL Trash Talk
49. 19 JanOur Government’s UnPATRIOTic Investigation of Aaron Swartz
50. 19 JanThe Fishing Expedition into WikiLeaks
51. 19 JanThe Six Week Delay in the Swartz Investigation
52. 18 JanWas Aaron Swartz’ Effort to FOIA Bradley Manning’s Treatment Why DOJ Treated Him So Harshly?
53. 18 JanJohn Cornyn Asks Eric Holder if Aaron Swartz Prosecuted because of FOIA Requests
54. 18 JanIran Claims Capture of CIA Agents
55. 17 JanYet Another Edition of “You Were Warned”
56. 17 JanThe PACER Investigation DOJ Revealed in 2009 But Did Not Reveal in 2011
57. 17 JanWhat to Do about Computer Crime Laws
58. 16 JanThe December 2010 Black Hole in the Network Interface Closet
59. 16 JanAlbright Follows Warrick Into Full Neocon Mode, Presents Iran Sanction Manifesto
60. 16 JanHow the FBI Deals with a Suicidal Entrapment Target
61. 15 JanOnce Again Jamie Dimon Gets Special Treatment
62. 15 JanOK, But Can We Also Fire Lanny Breuer?
63. 15 JanMassive Demonstrations, Arrest Warrant for Prime Minister Threaten Upcoming Pakistan Elections
64. 14 JanDOJ Invoked Aaron Swartz’ Manifesto To Justify Investigative Methods
65. 14 JanSenate Intelligence Committee Member Ron Wyden STILL Hasn’t Seen Targeted Killing Memo
66. 14 JanFear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: the Real Cyber Attack on the Truth [UPDATE]
67. 14 JanWhat Kind of Fishing Trip Did the Government Conduct into Aaron Swartz’ Amazon Data?
68. 14 Jan“Conditions on the Ground” in Afghanistan Demonstrate Why Immunity Will Never be Granted to US Troops
69. 14 JanTwo Days Before MIT and Cambridge Cops Arrested Aaron Swartz, Secret Service Took Over the Investigation
70. 12 JanNFL Divisional Playoff Trash Talk – Platinum Style!
71. 11 JanDid John Brennan Create the Loopholes CIA Used to Help Spy on New Yorkers?
72. 11 JanAnother Year, and Another Detainee Killed, But Obama’s Intent Is Still Found in Bagram
73. 11 JanAfter Having Let Off HSBC with an Inadequate Fine, Regulators Prepare to Let JPMC Off with No Fine
74. 11 JanThe Constitutional Argument Against the Platinum Coin Stunt
75. 10 JanShorter DOJ: It’s No Big Deal if DEA Agents Destroy Evidence
76. 10 JanFor Lack of the Most Appropriate Word: “Lie”
77. 10 JanJohn Galt Kills Americans
78. 10 JanThe Lawyers that Stayed, the Lawyers that Left
79. 9 JanWill NYT’s Ombud Encourage a NYT Pre-Sentencing Memo for Bradley Manning, Too?
80. 9 JanZero Option on Table as Karzai Comes to Washington
81. 8 JanIt’s Hard to Summarize Opinions Pertaining to Two Purportedly Unrelated Laws
82. 8 JanBlabby Brennan to Replace Publicity Petraeus at CIA?
83. 8 JanBrennan Attacks First Responders Again
84. 8 JanJohn Brennan Promises to Take the Gloves Off
85. 7 JanWarrick Promotes Neocon Framing of Newest Iran Sanctions
86. 7 JanThe Official John Brennan Story
87. 7 JanThe Seduction of John Brennan’s “Moral Rectitude”
88. 5 JanWildcard Weekend, Sexy Rex Art and Johnny Football
89. 4 JanWhy Ask the FBI about Classification on the Targeted Killing FOIA?
90. 4 JanThe Disposition of Informants and Citizens
91. 4 JanMilitary Slowly Gaining Perspective on Insider Attacks in Afghanistan
92. 4 JanThe Dianne Feinstein-Jose Rodriguez Grudge Match
93. 3 JanAl-Haramain Will Not Appeal 9th Circuit Decision Immunizing Illegal Wiretapping
94. 3 JanThe DOD Targeted Killing Memo Not Addressed to DOD
95. 3 JanWhy Not Have a Hearing on Civilian Drone Casualties?
96. 2 JanColleen McMahon’s Cheshire Cat: CIA’s Stephen Preston
97. 2 JanJudge Invokes Alice in Wonderland in Denying NYT and ACLU Targeted Killing FOIAs
98. 2 JanCompany that Engaged in Criminal Wiretapping Hails Obama’s Wiretap Extension
99. 2 JanTime to Fund Fat Al Gore Relief Like We Should Have Funded Iraq, Afghan Wars
100. 2 JanBipartisan Agreement: Garbage into Intel Oversight, Garbage Out
101. 1 JanLanny Breuer Deputizes Banks Rather than Prosecuting Them
102. 1 JanOut Of The Blue & Into The Black: Sad Farewells & A Moment For Schacht