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December 2014

1. 31 DecNSA Obfuscated to Congress about Back Door Searches in 2009
2. 31 DecEmptywheel’s Bowl Mania Trash Talk
3. 31 DecHow ABC Investigative Reports Turn into NSA Briefings to the SSCI
4. 30 DecAs FBI’s Amerithrax Case Continues to Crumble, Bureau Digs in on North Korea Claims
5. 30 DecLanny Breuer’s Conflicts
6. 29 DecNo, the War in Afghanistan Did Not End
7. 27 DecEnd of the NFL Regular Road and Start of Bowl Season Coach Lombardi Trash Talk
8. 27 DecStellar Wind and the Intelligence Oversight Board Reports
9. 26 DecThe Phone Dragnet Classified Appendix
10. 25 DecWe Found the Plum Pudding!
11. 24 DecExpectations of Light Ahead
12. 22 DecDid Jello Jay Rockefeller Endorse Torture Based on a Fabrication?
13. 21 DecGAO Analysis Highlights Lab Samples Excluded in Sloppy FBI Anthrax Investigation
14. 20 DecWeek 16 Trash Talk
15. 19 DecBroad Response By Pakistan to Peshawar School Attack
16. 19 DecWe’re Going to Start a War to Protect a Negligent Corporation’s Property?
17. 18 DecJohn Galt Faces Prison For Contaminating West Virginia Water
18. 18 DecShorter GOP Intelligence: “Oversight’s Out for Summer!”
19. 17 DecCuba Libre! A Momentous Shift in Relations
20. 17 DecIsrael’s Newest Ballistic Missile Shield System Fails Test
21. 16 DecPakistan’s Taliban Attacks Peshawar School: More Than 130 Killed
22. 16 DecJose Rodriguez & CIA Lawyer Removed Sentence about Torture Illegality from Pelosi, Goss Briefing Record
23. 15 DecThe 2 Year Delay in Getting ASSET X to Bring Us to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
24. 15 DecKSM Had the CIA Believing in Black Muslim Convert Jihadist Arsonists in Montana for 3 Months
25. 15 DecSection 309: A Band-Aid for a Gaping Wound in Democracy
26. 14 DecWhy Did Alfreda Bikowsky Invent a Story about al Qaeda Trash-Talking Us?
27. 14 DecThe Neoliberal Inhabitants of Mont Pelerin
28. 14 DecMeet the Press: 12 Years of Unchallenged Cheney Claims about Iraq and Al Qaeda
29. 14 DecWeek 15 NFL Trash Talk: The Coming of Johnny Football
30. 13 DecSony, Hacked: It’s Not One Massive Breach – It’s More Than 50 Breaches in 15 Years
31. 12 DecVindictive John Brennan Should Be Fired Before He Strikes Again
32. 12 DecAs Last Piece of Business, Carl Levin Reiterates that Dick Cheney Lied Us into War
33. 11 DecWhere Are They Now? Dozens of Prisoners Unaccounted For With Closure of US Bagram Prison
34. 11 DecThe Advance Declination Letter and the White House Meetings
35. 11 DecThe Emergency EO 12333 Fix: Section 309
36. 10 DecUN Official: Prosecute “Systematic Crimes and Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law”
37. 10 DecBarb Mikulski Still Thinks You’re Stupid about “Target” and “Content”
38. 10 DecDick Cheney Can Sing a [Black Site] Rainbow Too
39. 10 DecMaureen Mahoney’s Dirty Bomb Blows Up
40. 9 DecTorture? Obviously, But What About Litany Of Other Crimes?
41. 9 DecSSCI Torture Report Key: They Knew It was Torture, Knew It Was Illegal
42. 9 DecNeoliberalism and Neoclassical Economics
43. 9 DecEmergency Fundraising Succeeds: World Food Programme Restarts Suspended Aid for Syrian Refugees
44. 9 DecObama Would Not — Cannot — Deem Any Activities Authorized by Gloves Come Off Finding Illegal
45. 9 DecThe Debate about Torture We’re Not Having: Exploitation
46. 8 DecReagan? No, Regin — Yet Another [GCHQ] Intelligence Malware
47. 8 DecSome Torture Facts
48. 8 DecDead Mediators Belie the Claim US Didn’t Know about Pierre Korkie
49. 8 DecUS Pretends to End Combat Mission in Afghanistan
50. 7 DecAbu Wa’el Dhiab and Five Others Released to Uruguay
51. 6 DecTorture Is Not a Christmas Tree and John Brennan Is Not a Jesuit Pope
52. 6 DecCoffin Corner Trash Talk
53. 5 DecMy Yearly December Post on John Brennan Rolling DiFi on Torture Report
54. 5 DecStealth Boots in Iraq: Now With Special Bonus Immunity!
55. 5 DecToday Obama Will Get His Fifth New Dragnet Order Since “Reform” Started
56. 5 DecYes, Ray Rice’s Diversion Adjudication Was Appropriate
57. 4 Dec5 Democrats Have Called on Obama Not to Reauthorize the Dragnet Tomorrow
58. 4 DecChuck Grassley Questions Why DOD Inspector General Cannot Report on Senior Official Leaks
59. 4 DecUS Persons on Military Intelligence Sharing Databases
60. 3 DecThe FBI PRTT Documents: The Paragraph 31 PCTDD Technique
61. 3 DecKerry Convenes Meeting to Line Up Global Victims to Die for US Mistakes
62. 3 DecObama Uninterested in Lame Duck AUMF
63. 2 DecThe Government’s Unexplained Iran Dragnet
64. 2 DecIf Videos of Feeding Can Be Used as Propaganda, You’re Doing It Wrong
65. 2 DecNo One Benefits from a One (Wo)Man FISC Court
66. 2 DecFederal Prosecutors Encouraging Localities to “Cast a Bigger .Net”
67. 2 DecMoral Depravity of US Syria Policy: Unlimited Funds for Fighting, UN Suspends Refugee Food Aid
68. 2 DecShorter the Neocons: Let Our General Go!
69. 1 DecDOJ Changed Its FISA Disclosure Policy on January 10, 2008
70. 1 DecNYPD Admits Its Counterterrorism Cops Are Incompetent
71. 1 DecUnions Even Conservatives Can Love
72. 1 DecOver $80 Billion Wasted in “Training” Iraqi, Afghan Forces: No Lessons Learned

November 2014

1. 30 NovThe FBI PRTT Documents: Combined Orders
2. 29 NovReclaim the Substance Trash
3. 28 NovThe Congressional PRTT Reports
4. 28 NovUN Lists Four Ways US Has Impeded Justice for Victims of Torture
5. 28 NovSeven Month Extension of P5+1 Negotiations? We’d Be Lucky With Seven Weeks
6. 27 NovTurkee Trash Tawk
7. 27 NovThanks Be for Michigan’s Bounty — Better Load Up for Another Tough Winter
8. 26 NovObama Should Only Nominate Jeh Johnson If He Plans on Breaking Up DHS
9. 25 NovIn Response to NYT Lawsuit, FBI Reclassifies 26 Words
10. 25 NovBenghazi: A Poster Child for Covert Ops Blowback
11. 25 NovFerguson/Wilson Grand Jury Return Thoughts and Working Materials
12. 24 NovA Radical Proposal of Following the Law
13. 24 NovAs Obama Embraces Multi-Fronted War, He Fires Chuck Hagel
14. 24 NovAnother Iraq Failure by Petraeus: Graft-Ridden Military
15. 23 NovAnother Informant Lost in a Defeat List?
16. 22 NovThe Masked US Marshals Who Nabbed Chapo Guzmán
17. 22 NovLake Effect Trash Talk
18. 21 NovThe Drone Rule Book Has Made It Easier for Our Partners To Drone Kill With Us Again
19. 21 NovOn the USA Freedom Act’s Data Handshake
20. 21 NovThe “DSOP Accommodation”
21. 20 NovDianne Feinstein Describes the Data Handshake
22. 20 NovYes, the Government Does Spy Under Grandfathered Approvals
23. 20 NovThe 2009 Last Ditch Attempt to Undercut the FISA Court
24. 20 NovAmano, Sanger Still Trying to Disrupt P5+1 Deal With Iran
25. 20 NovThe 2009 Challenge to the Dragnet
26. 20 NovMinh Quang Pham Gets His Day in Supreme Court
27. 19 NovDid Obama’s Beloved “Moderate” FSA Fighters Flee Aleppo?
28. 19 NovOnly Remaining Senator Personally Targeted by Terrorist Attack Still Believes in Constitution
29. 18 NovThe Bottom End of the Fourth Amendment
30. 18 Nov“There Is No Database”
31. 18 NovFormer Surveillance Lawyer Peter Keisler Pushes for Surveillance Limits
32. 18 NovStudy: Fighting Terrorism With Military Almost Never Works
33. 18 NovWhite House Supports USA Freedom Act, with Bates-Clapper Caveats about Amicus
34. 17 NovEd Markey May Not Be Adequately Prepared to Vote on USA Freedom Act
35. 17 NovEven as Congress Prepares to Legislate, Intelligence Community Stalling on Section 215 IG Report
36. 17 NovUS Feeding its Addiction to Training Iraqi Military
37. 16 NovUnder Cover: The Targets of Stings
38. 15 NovKitties Eat Cardinals and Leave the Guts as a Gift on the Doorstep!!!!
39. 14 NovUNCAT Process Exposes Flaw in US Torture Coverup: DOJ Not Final Authority
40. 14 NovHow to Fix the FISA Court … Or Not
41. 14 NovUnsaid at the UN: “Because the President Ordered It”
42. 14 NovAfghanistan Misses Deadline for Cabinet Formation
43. 13 NovFixes for USA Freedom Act
44. 13 NovAmericans: On the Internet, People Do Too Know You’re a Dog
45. 13 NovWhy I Don’t Support USA Freedom Act
46. 12 NovSWIFT Change
47. 12 NovCIA to Stein: “Sorting Syrian Fighters is Hard!”
48. 11 NovDOJ’s Claims about the Adequacy of Shitty WiFi Rendered Inoperative
49. 11 NovWhat Drove Timing of NYTimes Publishing Risen-Apuzzo Disclosure of McHale Jundallah Contacts?
50. 11 NovIf the NSA “Won” the War in Iraq, Why Are We Still Losing It?
51. 11 NovWhite Georgetown Student Sentenced to One Year, Tutoring Underprivileged Kids for Ricin Offense
52. 10 NovThe Foreign Metadata Problem
53. 9 NovEmergency Dragnet Chaining, Now with First Amendment Protections!
54. 8 NovMadame Defargewheel’s Football Guillotine Trash Talk
55. 8 NovWhy DOJ Withheld the Correlations Opinion: The DC Circuit’s Mosaic
56. 7 NovJim Comey Scolds the Press for Reporting on a Court Filing
57. 7 NovEbola Outbreak Receding in Liberia, Still Strong in Sierra Leone
58. 6 NovThe Klayman Hearing: Everyone Can Stand If DOJ Has the Backbone
59. 6 NovEven the Government Can’t Figure Out How It Uses Its FISA Dragnet
60. 6 NovDid ISAF Joint Command Chief Leak Classified Information on Afghan Troop Capabilities?
61. 6 NovLess than 15 Hours After Winning Senate Majority GOP Started Laying Plans to Grow the Deficit
62. 5 NovWhy the 2016 Senate Election Is Sure to Be About ObamaCare, Again
63. 5 NovWas Alex Brown a CIA Front When It Was “Innocuously” Shorting 9/11?
64. 5 NovOne Potential Civil Liberties Bright Spot from Yesterday’s Shellacking: Thad Cochran
65. 5 NovConnecting the Dots: Putting Both Sides of Conversations in One Database
66. 5 NovThe Flake Effect
67. 4 NovThe FBI’s Black Hole of Devised Ignorance Surrounding Americans Subject to Section 215
68. 4 NovGlaring Front Page Error by David Sanger, New York Times as Iran Nuclear Negotiations Near Deadline
69. 3 NovNew and Improved FBI! Now with 12 New Pages of Investigative Methods!
70. 3 NovAn Unclassified Statement about Where NSA’s Internet Dragnet Went
71. 3 NovSuicide Bomber Strikes Near Pakistan-India Flag-Lowering Border Site
72. 3 NovPresident Who Had Yemeni Journalist Jailed Criticizes Impunity for Mistreatment of Journalists
73. 1 NovICREACH and EO 12333
74. 1 NovBig Games and the End of the Hokey Pokey Era Trash Talk
75. 1 NovMore Catcalling Debate Room Needed at New York Times
76. 1 NovPre-Empting the Abdulmutallab “Confession” with a Drone Killing Decision

October 2014

1. 31 OctClassified Briefings: For When Your Public Claims Don’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
2. 30 OctDo Verizon and AT&T’s Super Cookies Count as Sesson Identifiers?
3. 30 OctUS Military Suddenly Decides to Classify Its Analysis of Afghan Troop Capability
4. 29 OctBizarre Deployment of McDonough Torture Role in Article Bitching about Obama Non-Panic
5. 29 OctThe Last Time NSA Submitted Secret Authorities, It Was Actively Hiding Illegal Wiretapping
6. 29 OctWas Quantum Entanglement Experiment Behind “Classified Cryptographic Equipment” Confusion After Antares Crash?
7. 28 OctGoing Postal. And Digital. And Financial: The Dragnet Elephant
8. 28 OctThe Public Interest and the International Surveillance State
9. 27 OctThe Warmongers Hang Out the Insular Bumblers
10. 27 OctChristie’s Quarantine Over-Reaction Ignores How Ebola is Transmitted
11. 27 OctDeconfliction in Dragnet Databases
12. 25 OctThe Decline and Fall of the Bo Merlot Empire
13. 25 OctDNA Sequence Analysis Shows Ebola Outbreak Naturally Ocurring, Not Engineered Virus
14. 25 OctTwo Men with Weapons But No Passports in Another Country
15. 24 OctMaybe the Spooks Don’t Want FTC to Know NSA’s Tricks?
16. 24 OctWyden Doesn’t Know What NSA Does with Its Dragnet Overseas
17. 23 OctConnecting the Dots on the CIA Torture Report
18. 23 OctAfter Acid Attacks on Women, Rouhani Speaks Out Against “Discord” “Under the Flag of Islam”
19. 23 OctNo, Obama Doesn’t Need Legislation to Fix the Dragnet–Unless the “Fix” Isn’t One
20. 22 OctPlane Meets Plow: The Curious End of Total S.A. CEO Christophe de Margerie
21. 22 OctNew CDC Hospital Ebola Guidelines Fall Short of WHO Guidance on Personnel Flow
22. 21 OctAnother Attorney-Client Conversation Spied On
23. 21 OctMaybe NSA “Moonlighting” Is Another Name for “Public-Private Partnership”?
24. 20 OctFISCR Used an Outdated Version of EO 12333 to Rule Protect America Act Legal
25. 20 OctBorder Incidents Escalate Again: Iran Kills Pakistani Soldier
26. 20 OctThe Obama Administration Debate on the Convention Against Torture and Anas al-Libi
27. 18 OctWeek Seven Pro and College Football Trash Talk
28. 17 OctWhy Isn’t FBI Investigating the Hackers Who Broke into Google’s Cables?
29. 17 OctI Con the Record’s International Privacy Guidelines Swallowed Up by Exceptions
30. 17 OctThe Forgotten OPR Report Exposing the White House Role in Torture
31. 16 OctJim Comey’s Confused Defense of Front Door Back Doors and Storage Intercepts
32. 16 Oct60 Minutes Comey Refutes 60 Minutes Comey
33. 16 OctIran Threatens to Chase Terrorists in Pakistan (Just Like US!)
34. 16 OctRichard Burr Prepares to Capitalize on Refusing to Exercise Intelligence Oversight
35. 15 OctTexas Hospital Violated Basic Precaution in WHO Ebola Patient Treatment Guidelines
36. 15 OctThe Timing of CIA’s Discovery Its Paramilitary Ops Fail
37. 15 OctWhy the Bargain Reward for Ibrahim al-Asiri?
38. 15 OctSaddam’s WMD: Technology Made In USA, Delivered by Rumsfeld
39. 15 OctMoussaoui Wants to Testify Against the Saudi Banks
40. 14 OctThe Fossil Fueled Military Battles Climate Change
41. 14 OctEbola Transmission: Health Care Worker Practice Most Important Consideration
42. 13 OctJim Comey Lied When He Claimed FBI Needs a Judge to Read Your Email
43. 13 OctThe No Fly List and DOJ’s Notice Concessions
44. 13 OctIs Someone Funding Saudi’s Oil Flood?
45. 13 OctDescribed Focus of Protest in Kabul Dependent on News Outlet
46. 12 OctA Remarkable Date for the Virgin Birth of the Silk Road Investigation
47. 11 OctFormula One and Football Trash Talk
48. 10 OctNobel Prize: The Surveillance Fight Remains Ahead of Us
49. 10 OctMoral Rectitude? No, John Brennan is a Honey Badger
50. 9 OctUSA Gag Freedom Act
51. 9 OctThe Executive Branch’s Vendetta against James Risen
52. 8 OctParchin Blast Site Far From Disputed Chamber
53. 8 OctThe Other Blind Spot in NSA’s EO 12333 Privacy Report: Research
54. 7 OctIn Telling of Brennan Fit, Panetta Somehow Forgets the Torture Documents Stolen Back for the White House
55. 7 OctBlast at Parchin Kills at Least Two; Timing Stinks
56. 7 OctNSA’s Privacy Officer Exempts Majority of NSA Spying from Her Report on EO 12333 Collection
57. 7 OctA Good Reason to Encrypt Your iPhone: To Prevent DEA from Creating a Fake Facebook Account
58. 6 OctWith AIG “Bailout,” Did the US become a Planned Economy to Fight Off Takeover by One?
59. 6 OctReuters Reporter Dan Williams Tries to Help Israel Sell Iron Dome, Ignores Problems
60. 6 OctOne Reason We’re Losing the War against Terrorism
61. 5 OctBigger Problem in US Than Ebola: Enterovirus D68 Spreading Respiratory, Paralytic Diseases in Children
62. 5 OctClouded Transparency in USA Freedom Act
63. 4 OctJPMorgan’s Form 8-K to Investors: We’ve Been Hack-Mapped!
64. 4 OctMLB Divisional Playoffs and NFL Week 5 Trash Talk
65. 4 OctThe Continuing Myth about USA Freedom Transparency
66. 3 OctProtect America Act Was Designed to Collect on Americans, But DOJ Hid that from the FISC
67. 3 OctHow Did Mighty American Bombing Not Destroy Terrorist Membership Lists?
68. 3 OctOnce Again, Iran Protests IAEA Leaks
69. 2 OctJack Goldsmith Declares Victory … for Osama bin Laden
70. 2 OctCDC Director: “Zero Risk” to Passengers on Flights With Dallas Ebola Patient
71. 1 OctHiding Yahoos: ORCON and the FISC Special Advocate

September 2014

1. 30 SepUS Air Strikes in Syria Proceeding as Expected: Civilian Deaths Documented, ISIS Recruitment Up
2. 29 SepUnrepentant War Criminal Dostum Sworn in as Vice President in Afghanistan
3. 27 SepWeek Four Trash Talk
4. 26 SepDay after Escalating Climate Damaging War, Obama Cites “Beyond Vietnam” on Climate Urgency
5. 25 SepYahoo’s FISA Content Requests Went up 30% in Second Half of Last Year
6. 25 SepEric Holder Resigns, Will Likely Go Back to Representing Banks at Covington and Burling
7. 25 SepZbig’s Plotting over Chilean Sea Bass
8. 25 SepGraft-Sharing Agreement Signed, Ghani Awarded Afghan Presidency
9. 24 SepObama to Congress: Oh, By the Way, You Just Funded the Iraq War
10. 24 SepCDC Modeling Demonstrates Importance of Intervention in Ebola Outbreak
11. 24 SepFormer FBI Assistant Director Makes a Compelling Case to Eliminate the Corporation
12. 23 SepNoted Torture Apologist, Branded a Terrorist
13. 23 SepLaw Enforcement’s Apple Security Hysteria: About Border Searches?
14. 23 SepObama Starts Syrian Bombing using Cover of Khorasan Claims
15. 22 SepThe Covert Operation Undermining US Credibility against ISIS
16. 22 SepOn Day Senate Approved $500 Million for War in Syria, UN Announced $352 Million Funding Shortfall for Feeding Syrian Refugees
17. 21 SepRaez Qadir Khan: Hoisting the FBI on Its Own Metadata Problems
18. 20 SepOregon Prosecutors Wiretapped Defense Investigators on Mohamed Osman Mohamud Case
19. 20 SepCriminal Docket Talk
20. 19 SepUnit 8200 Refuseniks Make Visible for Israel What Remains Invisible in the US
21. 19 SepFunding Hapless Mission to Train Syrian Rebels Increases Value of Saudi Terror Hedge Fund
22. 19 SepWhy USAF’s “Transparency” Provisions Will Make Ongoing Organizing Difficult
23. 18 SepAbout Apple’s Dead Warrant Canary
24. 18 SepSomeone Treasure Mapped JP Morgan
25. 18 SepRouhani to NBC: “US Presence in Region Exacerbates Terrorism Crisis”
26. 17 SepWhat State Secrets Does UANI Have? How Did They Get Them?
27. 17 SepAre New Sealed Filings in Barry Bonds Appeal More Dirty Tricks By DOJ? Update: YES!
28. 17 SepNow That It Is Finally Convential Wisdom the Saudis Are Part of the Problem…
29. 16 SepJohn Bates Gets Slapped Down for Speaking Out of Turn, Again
30. 16 SepAfghan Vote Audit Farce Nears Conclusion
31. 15 SepA Yahoo! Lesson for USA Freedom Act: Mission Creep
32. 15 SepTreasure Map: It’s About Location, Not Gold
33. 15 SepYahoo’s Lawyer’s Take on the Yahoo Trove
34. 15 SepTranspartisan Coalition Calls on Senate for More NSA Reform
35. 15 SepPakistan’s Punjabi Taliban to Cease Internal Attacks, Continue Them in Afghanistan
36. 15 SepThe Hemisphere Decks: A Comparison and Some Hypotheses
37. 13 SepThe Curious Timing of FBI’s Back Door Searches
38. 13 SepIf Patrick Leahy Wants to End Bulk Collection, He Needs to Amend His USA Freedom Act
39. 13 SepThe National Felon League: Week 2 Trash Talk
40. 12 SepHate to Tell SSCI I Told Them So, John Brennan Lying and Spying Edition
41. 12 SepAfter Spectacular Failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, US to Throw More Money at Training for Syrian Rebels
42. 12 Sep“Linking” Procedures in the Yahoo Opinion
43. 11 SepRemember Joseph Nacchio?
44. 11 SepPew-Related Headlines Should Read: Americans More Scared of ISIS than Real Attack
45. 11 SepEvery Senator Who Supports USA Freedom May Be Affirmatively Ratifying a Financial Dragnet
46. 10 SepUSA Freedom Act’s So-Called “Transparency” Provisions Enable Illegal Domestic Surveillance
47. 10 Sep“Let’s Bomb Syria” Version 2 Is Working; Why Did Version 1 Fail?
48. 10 SepTech Companies: Hurry Up and Give Us Immunity and Compensation
49. 10 SepKeith Alexander Wants to Patent Having No Knowledge
50. 9 SepRand Paul and I Told You So
51. 9 SepDid Afghan and Pakistani ISIS Recruits Really Expect to Travel Length of Iran?
52. 9 SepRemember that Nashiri’s Torture — “Real Torture” — Didn’t Work
53. 8 SepNew Email Release Shows: Peter King Demanded an Investigation To Find Journalist’s Sources Like Peter King
54. 8 SepJames Clapper’s Letter DIDN’T Endorse S 2685; It Endorsed HR 3361
55. 8 SepIs NFL Telling Stories Now about Previously Seeing Ray Rice Video because They Believe(d) It Exonerates Rice?
56. 8 SepHappy Monday of Drum-Up-War Week
57. 8 SepAbdullah Declares Himself Election Winner, Won’t Accept Audit Result
58. 8 SepSupporters of USA Freedom Ignore the Courts
59. 6 SepHospital Hero Jack Goldsmith, the Destroyer of the Internet Dragnet, Authorized the Internet Dragnet
60. 6 SepAwlaki Really Seems to Have Been Drone-Killed Exclusively on Presidential Authority
61. 6 SepLast Dance for MI/ND and NFL Week 1 Trash Talk
62. 6 SepExecutive Still Hiding Its Phone Dragnet Self-Authorization, While Making Sure We Know It Has It
63. 5 SepJames Clapper, Bates-Stamp, and Gutting the FISA Advocate
64. 5 SepTwo Explanations for Confusion about US ISIS Members: Associational Claims and Watchlisting Procedures
65. 5 SepISIS Fearmongering Now Features Undeclared Syrian Toxins Changing Hands
66. 5 SepThe Article 5 Cyber-Trap
67. 4 SepReal NFL Trash Talk: Packers Fair and Square
68. 4 SepClapper’s Claim that FBI Cannot Count Back Door Searches for Technical Reasons Probably Bullshit
69. 4 SepFinal Push for P5+1 Deal Begins Against Backdrop of US Working With Anti-Iran Groups
70. 3 SepThe Holder-Clapper Letter Ought to Make You Worry about Leahy’s USA Freedom
71. 3 SepNATO Will Cry Through Their Party Without Guest of Honor
72. 3 SepLying Keith the Kapitalist
73. 2 Sep“What Else Haven’t You Let Us Know?” 2nd Circuit Asks DOJ
74. 2 SepThe West’s Ideological Vacuum
75. 2 SepPresident Obama’s Epistolary War
76. 1 SepSharif Sees Power Eroding in Pakistan

August 2014

1. 31 AugIs JP Morgan Crying Cyberwolf about Russia? Or Is Mike Rogers?
2. 30 AugAppalachian State Trashnado: The Second One
3. 29 AugDisappearing Kurdish Oil
4. 29 AugWhatever Happened to Muhammed Khudayr al-Dulaymi?
5. 29 AugDid Eric Arthur Blair Come Back from Catalonia Radicalized?
6. 29 AugMissing from the EO 12333 Discussion: Its Classified Annex Michael Hayden Revised on March 11, 2004
7. 29 AugAgainst Drumbeat of War With ISIS, Chris Murphy Delivers Healthy Dose of Skepticism
8. 29 AugLaptop of Death, 2.0
9. 28 AugJohn “Bates Stamp” Lives Up to the Name
10. 28 AugDoes Its Use of Waterboarding Make ISIS More or Less Barbaric?
11. 28 AugIt May Not Have Been ISIS, But McCain Did Pose With Members of a Group That Beheads Opponents
12. 28 AugICREACH and FBI’s PRTT Program
13. 27 AugShould Alfreda Bikowsky’s Lawyer Really Be in Charge of Declassifying the Torture Report?
14. 27 AugAbdullah Becomes Serial Quitter While Dempsey Continues Denying Reality
15. 26 AugSPCMA and ICREACH
16. 25 AugICREACH and the 2009 Phone Violations
17. 25 AugPCLOB Member Rachel Brand Asked NSA General Counsel to Help Her Dissent from PCLOB
18. 25 AugWith Clock Still Ticking, Afghanistan No Closer to Resolving Election Crisis
19. 23 AugBehold, John Brennan’s Scary Memo!
20. 22 AugAdventures in Credulous NSA Journalism, Episode 2,524
21. 22 AugTranslation Issues Put Zarif’s Remarks Somewhere Between Arak and a Hard Place (Iraq)
22. 22 AugNSA’s Lawyers Missed “Virtually Every Record” over 25 Reviews
23. 21 AugThe Truth Missing from Alexander Joel’s “Truth” about EO 12333
24. 21 AugThe Government Uses the Dragnets for Detainee Proceedings
25. 21 AugFor John Kerry’s State Department, Constitutions Matter Only on One Side of Durand Line
26. 20 AugWorking Thread, Internet Dragnet 5: The Audacious 2010 Reapplication
27. 20 AugAfghanistan Bars Rosenberg From Leaving Over Times Report on Coup Plan
28. 19 AugHolder’s Agency in Ferguson
29. 19 AugHow Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Put CIA and FBI in NSA’s Databases
30. 19 AugDestruction of Syria’s Chemical Weapons-Related Materials Completed Weeks Ahead of Schedule
31. 18 AugUSA Freedom Must Explicitly Require NSA and CIA to Comply with Law’s Minimization Procedures
32. 18 AugWorking Thread, Internet Dragnet 4: Later 2009 Documents
33. 18 AugIs DOJ Still Hiding Their Logic Behind Use of Drones to Execute American Citizens?
34. 18 AugPakistan Revolution Fizzling Out
35. 16 AugWorking Thread: NSL IG Report
36. 16 AugWhy Was CIA Assessing Whether They Could Drone-Kill Anwar al-Awlaki?
37. 16 AugInternet Cats, Weaponized: US Defense Contractor Consulted on Targeted Network Injection Surveillance for Commercial Sales Abroad
38. 15 Aug7 Pages to Drone Kill an American Citizen
39. 15 AugGov. Nixon Should Remove Prosecutor McCulloch Too
40. 15 AugThe Majority of 215 Orders Come from Internet Companies that Refuse NSLs
41. 14 AugA Note Of Praise For Jake Tapper
42. 14 AugThe FBI Has Significant Problems Counting Its National Security Letters
43. 14 AugFBI Hides More and More of its National Security Letter Use
44. 14 AugLeahy’s Freedom Act May Not Change Status Quo on Records Other than Call Records
45. 14 AugCompany B (Verizon? Sprint?) Stopped Playing Nice with FBI in 2009
46. 14 AugThe Hospital Confrontation Heroes of Rule of Law Gutted Separation of Powers
47. 14 AugWorking Thread, Internet Dragnet Dump 3: Early 2009 Documents
48. 13 AugAs Expected, Kerry’s Power Sharing Agreement in Afghanistan Falling Apart
49. 13 AugNSA’s Plans to Excuse Their Hacker Fuck-Ups: Blame Israel
50. 13 AugWSJ Falsely Paints John “Bates Stamp” as Aggressive
51. 12 AugAshcroft, Comey, Goldsmith, and Baker: “All” Is the “Best” Reading of “Relevant”
52. 12 AugWorking Thread, Internet Dragnet Dump 2: 2004 Documents
53. 12 AugJames Clapper Thinks Fictitious Email Metadata Is Properly Classified
54. 12 AugInternet Dragnet Timeline
55. 12 AugWhy US Wants BSA With Criminal Immunity: Amnesty Reports US War Crimes in Afghanistan Not Prosecuted
56. 12 AugPablo Escobar on a Train Using Data for Other Purposes
57. 12 AugInternet Dragnet Materials, Working Thread 1
58. 11 AugCIA’s Torture Pushback Gets More Artful
59. 11 AugMeanwhile, in Pakistan, Revolution Is Scheduled for Thursday
60. 11 AugObama Pitches His Iraq Intervention with “Suck on This” Friedman
61. 8 AugDid Anthony Coppolino Fib about NSA’s New Architecture?
62. 8 AugUS Finally Admits Air Strikes in Iraq
63. 8 AugMike Flynn Invokes OUR Anthrax and Calls Them the Terrorists
64. 7 AugAll the Torture’s that Fit to Call Torture Now Includes US Torture
65. 7 AugWill Greene’s Death Become Symbolic Image for End of US Training Effort in Afghanistan?
66. 7 AugA Better Reform than USA Freedom: Get Rid of the FISA Court
67. 6 AugThe Pearl-Clutchers Normalizing Inflammatory Dog Whistles
68. 6 AugGovernment Continues to Freak Out about the Intercept, Raise Its Profile
69. 5 AugKeith Alexander’s Cyber Circle Jerk Gets Worse
70. 5 AugThe President Who Demanded Stanley McChrystal’s Resignation Is Not Sheltering the NatSec Bureaucracy
71. 5 AugIf CyberCom Can’t Beat Reservists, Why Not Split NSA?
72. 5 AugBreaking: Green on Blue Attack at Afghan Officer Training School, High Ranking Casualties
73. 5 AugThe Most Transparent Admin Evah™ Boasts of Declassifying 6.2% of Torture Report
74. 4 AugUnder Clapper’s Continuous Monitoring CIA Could Continuously Monitor SSCI on CIA Network
75. 4 AugSay, Why Should Mikey Hayden Get a Say on Torture that Purportedly Preceded Him?
76. 4 AugUS Endangers Public Health Efforts with Spying, Again
77. 3 AugUSA Freedom Does Not Rein in the Spies
78. 2 AugBut Brennan Didn’t Fuck His Biographer!
79. 1 AugDid ACLU and EFF Just Help the NSA Get Inside Your Smart Phone?
80. 1 AugNo, We Aren’t All Going to Die Because Ebola Patients Are Coming to US for Treatment
81. 1 AugIs CIA’s Admission of Spying an Effort to Undercut Whistleblowers?

July 2014

1. 31 JulHaving Been Absolved by DOJ, CIA Now Admits They Illegally Spied on SSCI
2. 31 JulMilitary Intelligence Industrial Complex Providing 30% Bonuses to Potential HASC and HPSCI Chairs
3. 31 JulState’s Funny View of Our Democracy
4. 31 JulTortured Diplomacy
5. 30 JulHackers Did Not Flood LA’s Critical Infrastructure
6. 30 JulWill Obama Show Reagan’s Courage and Suspend Tank Transfers to Israel?
7. 30 JulMicrosoft’s Very Public Spat in the Cloud
8. 29 JulA Good Idea that May Backfire: FISCR Fast Track
9. 29 JulLeahy USA Freedom’s Bulky Corporate Persons
10. 29 JulLeahy Freedom Act Exempts FBI from Counting Its Back Door Searches
11. 29 JulSuicide Bomb Kills Karzai’s Cousin: First Victim of Abdullah-Ghani Battle?
12. 29 JulHow Much Does Keith Alexander’s Patented Solution for Creating Fear Depend on CISA?
13. 28 JulImproved USA Freedom Retains “Connection” Chaining and “Foreign Intelligence” Retention
14. 28 JulSIGAR Finds That ANSF Weapons SCIP Away from OVERLORD
15. 28 JulThe Intelligence Propaganda Complex
16. 26 JulCofer Black Gets to Rebut Torture Report that Shouldn’t Include Him
17. 25 JulNSA Got Into Bed with the Saudis Just Before Our Technical Cooperation Agreement Expanded
18. 25 JulNSA’s Disingenuous Claims about EO 12333 and the First Amendment
19. 25 JulWith Afghan Runoff Audit Hopelessly Mired, Clock Running Out on US Hopes for BSA
20. 25 JulGitmo: Broken Minds, Broken Justice
21. 24 JulIn a Nation Ravaged by Banksters, FBI Can’t Afford the “Luxury” of Frivolous Counterterrorism Stings
22. 24 JulFact-Checking 9/11 Anniversary Report on Info and Dragnets with 9/11 Report
23. 24 JulBreaking: CIA Tortured Abu Zubaydah at a Prison in Poland
24. 23 JulAs Debunking Continues, Congress Pushes for US Contractors to Profit Off Iron Dome
25. 23 JulYou’re Doing Counter-Propaganda Wrong, Hand-Picked Journos Edition
26. 22 JulDavid Medine’s PCLOB Defense
27. 22 JulKabul Suicide Attack Kills Foreign Guards in Buffer Between Afghans and Americans
28. 21 JulSting: Two New Reports on How the FBI Creates Terrorists
29. 21 JulKerry Castigates Putin For Using US Strategy of Training, Arming Rebels
30. 20 JulLeaving Motown
31. 19 JulEO 12333 Threatens Our Democracy
32. 19 JulSnowpiercer: Bong Joon-Ho’s Jab at the God of the Machine
33. 18 JulDick Durbin’s Obscure Transparency Bid
34. 18 JulEdward Snowden’s Smut
35. 17 JulThe Other Authority for the Phone Dragnet
36. 17 JulThe Anglo-American Data Empire
37. 16 JulChihuly In The Desert
38. 16 JulWhy Challenge the Washington Consensus Now?
39. 15 JulMeet Adam Kwasman, Arizona’s Racist Bigot Politician of the Month
40. 15 JulCISA: The Banks Want Immunity and a Public-Private War Council
41. 14 JulLatest Catch-22 For US Military: Training Iraqi Troops Too Dangerous Due to Previous “Training”
42. 14 JulOn Laughter and Forgetting Our EU Spying
43. 12 JulDid They Call Wiley Gill “Mohammed Raghead” Before Claiming Videogame Was a Flight Simulator?
44. 11 JulPapaDick and BabyDick Try to Sustain the Terror Industry
45. 11 JulKerry, UN Fail to Resolve Afghan Election Crisis
46. 11 JulNSA Only Finds 59% of Its Targeting of US Persons
47. 10 JulPakistan Operation: 800,000 Displaced, Army Claims Zero Civilian Deaths, Barber Aided Taliban Escapees
48. 10 JulColleen McMahon Kicks the Administration’s Ass
49. 9 JulAnonymous Pushback Emphasizes that Surveillance Leads to Informants
50. 9 JulAll These Muslim Organizations Have Probably Been Associationally Mapped
51. 9 JulEric Holder’s Step Four: Fictional Efforrts Countering Violent Extremism
52. 8 JulWaPo and PCLOB Agree: NSA Does Not Comply with Its Minimization Procedures
53. 8 JulKeith Alexander Has Finance Worried about Being Zeroed Out, Just Like President’s Review Group
54. 8 JulAbdullah Supporters Reject Preliminary Results, Urge Parallel Government
55. 8 JulStewart Baker’s IM-y Numbers
56. 7 JulCenter for Democracy and Technology’s James Dempsey on “the Wall,” Then and Now
57. 7 JulFBI Disclaims Material Support for Terrorism Prosecutions — for White People
58. 7 JulNYT Mischaracterizes PCLOB Report While Transcribing NSA Pushback to WaPo
59. 6 JulThe Unaudited Tech Analyst Access to US Person Data
60. 6 JulNSA’s Spying: Medical Records, Resumés … and [about] Obama
61. 4 JulHappy Fourth!
62. 3 JulWhat Happened to Obama’s Ordered Restrictions on Back Door Searches?
63. 3 JulIn Advance of USA Freedom and CISA Fights, PCLOB Pretends Section 702 Doesn’t Have a Cyber Function
64. 2 JulPCLOB Ignores Glaring Section 702 Non-Compliance: Notice to Defendants
65. 2 JulWorking Thread, PCLOB Report
66. 1 JulNSA Refused to Confirm Authenticity of Foreign Power Certification
67. 1 JulFormer Deputy DIRNSA Chris Inglis Goes to Private Equity Firm, Paladin
68. 1 JulSnowden’s Spiegel Files, Working Thread
69. 1 JulWere DiFi’s Aides Who Claimed “Only a Small Number” of Back Door Searches Ignorant or Lying?

June 2014

1. 30 JunIn Advance of PCLOB, WaPo Busts ODNI’s Limited Hang Out on Certifications
2. 30 JunTold You So, FBI Back Door Search Edition
3. 30 JunSadness in the NSA-Telecom Bromance
4. 30 JunHow is Abdullah Obtaining So Many Tapes of Phone Calls?
5. 30 JunBengh– Blackwater!
6. 28 JunNSA’s New-and-Improved Call Chaining Process, Now with No Calls Required
7. 28 JunUSA Freedumber Weakens FISC’s Authority Over Abuse of Emergency Queries
8. 27 JunI Con the Record Strikes Again
9. 27 JunGarr King’s Mohamud Decision: Classifying the Unclassified Details of Section 215
10. 27 JunThousands of Abdullah Supporters Rally in Kabul While Ghani Predicts Million Vote Victory
11. 27 JunAQAP Drone Strikes Obama’s Awlaki Drone Story
12. 27 JunVerizon in the Cloud
13. 26 JunSabrina de Sousa and the Drone Memo
14. 26 JunStimson Center: Yes, the Drones Are Killing Westphalia
15. 26 JunPakistan Military Offensive in North Waziristan Unleashed
16. 26 JunSonia Sotomayor, John Roberts, and the Riley Decision
17. 25 JunAlan Grayson: Is Keith Alexander Selling Classified Information to the Banks?
18. 25 JunRiley Meets the Dragnet: Does “Inspection” amount to “Rummaging”?
19. 25 JunIraq Crisis Puts US on Same Side With Assad, Iran Quds Force
20. 25 JunUnanimous: Cops Need a Warrant to Access Your Phone Data
21. 25 JunWhither the Assassination Consideration?
22. 25 JunMaybe It’s Time Liz and Dick Cheney Registered Under FARA?
23. 24 JunThe Delayed “Imminence” of Anwar al-Awlaki’s Killing
24. 24 JunPlease No Drone and/or Targeted Killing FISA Court!
25. 23 JunThe CIA’s [redacted] Operations
26. 23 JunWorking Thread: The Awlaki Memo
27. 23 JunImmunity Empire
28. 23 JunThe Petraeus Failure Legacy in Iraq Grows
29. 23 JunThe Opinion Accompanying the Latest Dragnet Order
30. 22 Jun1st Amendment and Other Concerns On Appeal of Redskins Decision
31. 22 JunDiFi’s Fake FISA Fix “Connection” Language
32. 20 JunWyden, Udall, and Heinrich Call Obama’s Bluff
33. 20 JunKeith Alexander to Earn $600,000 a Month for Preventing DDos Attacks
34. 20 JunMassie-Lofgren Would Shut Down ALL Back Door Searches under Section 702
35. 20 Jun“Trap and Trace Confidentiality” and National Dragnets
36. 20 JunMassie-Lofgren Amendment Closes NSA’s Back Door (for Now)
37. 19 JunDefund All “Bad Guy” National Security Thinking
38. 19 JunTime for an Executive Branch Internet Dragnet
39. 19 JunImportant Victories for the Fourth Amendment May Pose Big Threat to Dragnet
40. 19 JunDick Cheney’s Interests: Not Ours
41. 18 JunThe Ugly Political Sock Puppetry of Arizona’s Top Educator
42. 17 JunRichard Posner Wants You To Learn to Love Secrecy
43. 16 JunThe Black Holes in USA Freedumber’s Inspector General Reports
44. 16 JunPost Snowden: The Government Doubles Down on Hard Power
45. 16 JunWill Obama Treat Victoria Nuland More Leniently than PJ Crowley?
46. 15 JunRemotely Yours: Internet of Things Meets Father’s Day
47. 15 JunSouthCom Commander Calls Gitmo Hunger Strikes “a Joke”
48. 13 JunJudge Will Review DOJ’s Withholding of More Section 215 Orders
49. 13 JunWhat if US Government Had Not Demanded We “Drop It” on Maliki’s Corruption in 2010?
50. 13 JunMike Rogers Says Google Must Lose Its Quarter to Save a Rickety Bank
51. 12 JunDid the Government Invent Terrorist Threats Out of Adel Daoud’s Term Paper?
52. 12 JunUSA Freedumber Reverses John Bates’ Attempts at Oversight
53. 11 JunUS Foreign Policy in a NUTshell
54. 11 JunUse the Cantor Shellacking to Reverse Course on USA Freedumber
55. 10 JunBreaking Point: Media Finally Reporting on Violence Tied to Right Wing Extremism
56. 9 JunWhy Doesn’t FISCR Have a Public Docket?
57. 9 JunNY Times, Reuters Whitewash US Drone Strike Killing of Mehsud From Taliban Reasons for Karachi Airport Attack
58. 7 JunVerizon Counsel Speaks Out Against “Outsourcing” Intelligence
59. 6 JunMark Warner Lays Out How USA Freedumber Will Put the NSA in Your Smartphone
60. 6 JunIf George Bush Can Close NSA’s Back Door Loophole, Why Can’t Barack Obama?
61. 6 JunDianne Feinstein: I Believe Specific Selection Term Is Confusing
62. 6 JunGovernment Appears to Be Trying to Hide 3 Other OLC Memos in the Awlaki Memo
63. 5 JunDOJ’s Idea of an Appropriate Passive-Aggressive Response to Accusations They Destroyed Evidence: Destroy More Evidence
64. 5 JunMark Warner Confirms USA Freedumber Expands Surveillance
65. 5 JunDunford Declares Taliban’s Political Space “Significantly Reduced” on Day of Their Biggest Propaganda Win
66. 5 JunRichard Posner Prepares to Overrule the Intent of Congress, and Other FISA in Court Stories
67. 4 JunThose Cable Landings Chelsea Manning Didn’t Leak
68. 4 JunWhy Are the US Marshals at the Center of All These Pen Registers?
69. 4 JunPredictably, Saxby Chambliss Makes a Bid for USA Freedumbest
70. 3 JunWhat Role Will Released Taliban Detainees Have in Afghanistan’s Future?
71. 3 JunAs Snowden Leak Anniversary Approaches, Intelligence Community Prepares to Declare Victory
72. 2 JunTargeting Terrorists Based on Their (?!?) Sorority Membership
73. 2 JunDOJ’s Cake-Eating on Journalists Will Build Support for Faulty Journalist Shield
74. 2 JunWhy Is DOJ Hiding Three Phone Dragnet Orders in Plain Sight?
75. 2 JunWill Successful Bergdahl Negotiations Get US-Taliban Peace Negotiations Going Again?
76. 2 JunNSA Is Still Hiding Where They’re Hiding the Internet Dragnet
77. 1 JunDoes NSA Consider Facial Matches “Connections”?

May 2014

1. 30 MayEFF Accuses the Government of Spoliation of Evidence
2. 30 MaySnowden: “A Classified Executive Order”
3. 30 MayGraphing the Afghanistan Surge Out of Existence
4. 29 MayNSA’s Training Programs Are a Mess
5. 29 MaySnowden’s Emailed Question Addresses One Abuse Revealed by His Leaks
6. 29 MayTrent Franks and the EMP Threat to the Electrical Grid
7. 29 MayCausing Exceptionally Grave Harm to National Security by FOIAing FOIA Process
8. 29 MayAlbright Drops Pretense of Neutrality, Goes All In With MEK Terrorists
9. 29 MayThe Law and EO-Breaking Report
10. 28 MayMike Rogers’ Senior NSA Retiree Working For Foreign Government Cooling Off
11. 28 MayRepublicans Refuse to Expand Climate Change Analysis in Intelligence Authorization
12. 28 MayDid Obama’s Handling of Karzai When Visiting Kabul Put Bilateral Security Agreement at Risk?
13. 28 MayThe Administration’s Non-Appeal Appeal on the Awlaki Memo
14. 28 MayDOD Reasserts Its Right to Force Feed While Not Denying Force Feeding Is Torture
15. 27 MayWhat If the Democratic Response to Snowden Is to Expand Surveillance?
16. 26 MayThe Carnage In Isla Vista, Hashtag Justice and Echidne
17. 26 MayUSA Freedumber Will Not Get Better in the “Prosecutors” Committee
18. 25 MayMemorial Day Foodie Talk
19. 23 MayPakistani Troops Seize Miram Shah. Does That Remove Drone Strike Justification?
20. 23 MayFour Reasons USA Freedumber is Worse than the Status Quo
21. 22 MayWhy USA Freedumber Doesn’t End (What You and I Think of as) Bulk Collection
22. 22 MayWhy Can’t Jason Leopold Have the Information Mike Rogers Already Leaked, and in Less Than Four Months?
23. 22 May95 People Learn to Love the Dragnet
24. 22 MayThe Disturbing Paradox of the David Barron Nomination
25. 21 MayUSA Freedumber Appears to Strengthen RuppRoge’s Affirmative Endorsement of an Internet Dragnet
26. 21 MayFBI Will Now Videotape In Custody Interrogations
27. 21 MayFreedumb versus Freedumber
28. 21 MayAfghan Election Commission Fires 3300 Staffers, But Runoff Will Proceed in Most Corrupt Place on Earth
29. 20 MayObama to Release OLC Memo after Only 24 Congressional Requests from 31 Members of Congress
30. 20 MayNew & Improved USA Freedumb Act, with Twice the Contractors Compensated
31. 20 MayThe Administration Stops Pretending Phone Dragnet Is Only about Phone Calls
32. 20 MayDavid Barron’s ECPA Memo
33. 20 MayPakistan’s Geo Now Accused of Blasphemy: That Couldn’t Happen Here, Could It?
34. 19 MayThe “Consult with Congress” Stage of USA Freedumb
35. 19 MayNSA Collects All Phone Calls from One of World’s Most Secretive Tax Havens, But Doesn’t Track That
36. 19 MayUS Indicts Chinese Hackers for Stealing Information on Trade Negotiations
37. 19 MayHistory Repeats Itself: Kessler Orders Preservation of Gitmo Forced Feeding Torture Videos
38. 19 MayJim Comey Wants to Generalize FBI’s Intelligence Collection
39. 19 MayThe Civ Lib Community Gets Cold Feet
40. 18 MayThe Source of the Intelligence Legitimacy Problem
41. 18 MayTurboTax Timmeh Teaches DC about Autobiographical Fiction
42. 18 MayTwo History Lessons in the Fourth Amendment
43. 17 MayThe “Automated Query” at the Telecoms Will Include “Correlations”
44. 16 MayMike Rogers: Still Working on His Technical Changes
45. 16 MayMike Rogers: USA Freedom Act Only Changes Phone Dragnet
46. 16 MayKeith Alexander Declares Failure in War on Terror, as He Earlier Declared Failure in Cyberdefense
47. 16 MayOn USA Freedom: Heed Jan Schakowsky’s Warning
48. 16 MayAnnouncement
49. 15 MayNo Protection for International Communications: Russ Feingold Told Us So
50. 15 MayNSA Collection: Show Me the $$
51. 15 MayMassive Wildfires in SoCal Months Ahead of Season, But Al Gore is Still Fat
52. 15 MayDzhokhar’s Four Phones
53. 15 MayThe “Other Authority” Footnote
54. 14 MayJanuary 8, 2010: A Remarkably Busy Day in Telecom Law
55. 14 MayWyden and Udall Accuse DOJ of Misleading SCOTUS about Upstream Even as NSA Misleads NDCA about Upstream
56. 14 MayThe Phone Dragnet Adopted “Selection Term” by 2013
57. 13 MayBig NSA Funding Recipient, Ethiopia, Spies on Journalists in US
58. 13 MayVerizon Loves Dragnet Reform
59. 12 MayHow David Barron Played Judge and Jury for Anwar al-Awlaki
60. 12 MayJim Sensenbrenner Seems to Endorse Two Times Two Hops
61. 12 MayAs Taliban Launch Offensive in Afghanistan, More Data Pierce Narrative of Weakened Insurgency
62. 10 MayAbout HR 3361, the NSA Surveillance Efficiency Act, AKA USA Freedom Act
63. 10 MayDays after Last American Journalist Expelled from Yemen, Ray Davis-Like Story Breaks
64. 9 MayDzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Search Motion: the Reddish-Brown Powder and the Pizza Papers
65. 9 MayLying Keith Alexander to Shack up with Promontory and Profit Off His Fearmongering
66. 8 MayDOJ Abused Classification to Delay Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Presentment
67. 8 MayAfter Delaying Runoff, Afghan Taliban Announce Start Date of Fighting Season, Targets
68. 8 MayWhere Does the Bulk Collection Under NSLs Happen?
69. 7 MayWill the Dragnet Reform Criminalize Ordering Pizza?
70. 7 May“Specific Selection Term:” Still Not Convinced
71. 6 MayNSA Destroyed Its Illegal Content-as-Metadata Data in 2011
72. 6 MayWhy Should Someone Who Authorized Due Process Free Executions Be A Judge Anyway?
73. 6 MayUSA Freedumb Act and RuppRoge Both Adopt Intelligence Community Definition of “Bulk Collection”
74. 6 MaySection 215, Under USA Freedumb
75. 6 MayCIA, Pakistan Taliban Bring Fighters to Syria…and a Global Polio Emergency
76. 6 MayUSA Freedumb Act: The Timing
77. 5 MayNew “Freedom” Equals Less Protection for All But the Telecoms (Working Thread)
78. 5 MaySurveillance Democracy in ‘Murka: Shitty Immunity or Less Shitty Immunity
79. 5 MayAdel Daoud Challenges the Government’s “Treatise” against FISA Review
80. 5 MayCuts to CIA Militias in Afghanistan Tiny Fraction of Force Available to Them
81. 4 MayUnread Reports as the Big Data Dump? Not Really.
82. 4 MayThe Suppressed Inspire-Ation for the Adel Daoud Investigation
83. 3 May“Facts Matter” Said NSA Yay-Man Michael Hayden Who Told Serial Lies about the Phone Dragnet
84. 3 MayConfirmed: Obama’s Dragnet “Fix” Isn’t About Us
85. 2 MayThe Qazi Brothers: The Craziest Bit of Blatant Parallel Construction to Protect FAA
86. 2 MayThe NSA’s Retroactive Discovery of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
87. 1 MayThe Promise [sic] of Big Data
88. 1 MayThe Triage Document
89. 1 MayA 2nd Amendment Right to Bear Drones

April 2014

1. 30 Apr3 Different Inspectors General Say There Is More, Secret, Information on the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Mother
2. 30 AprUS, UK Just Can’t Stop Hiding Prisoners in Afghanistan
3. 29 AprThe IP Police Armed with Internet Vulnerabilities
4. 29 AprTorture for US, Retire With Impunity
5. 29 AprUS Moves to Catch Horses Just After They Escape the Barn
6. 28 AprThe Verizon Publicity Stunt, Mosaic Theory, and Collective Fourth Amendment Rights
7. 28 AprUS Fails Miserably to Hold Egypt Accountable, Continues Aid Despite Abuses
8. 27 AprThe Associations behind FBI’s No Fly Informant Coercion
9. 26 AprDOJ Continues Its “Multi-Subject” Investigation of WikiLeaks
10. 26 AprWhere Was Anal Rape Approved in the OLC Memos?
11. 25 AprWas Kabul Hospital Shooting Triggered by Proselytizing?
12. 25 AprDid Northwestern Unionizing Just Cause Real NCAA Reform? No, Not At All
13. 24 AprISI Goes After Geo’s Broadcast License in Response to Accusations on Mir’s Shooting
14. 23 AprWith Removal of Materials Under CW Agreement Nearly Complete, Concern in Syria Over Chlorine Use
15. 23 AprPat Tillman Was A Man, Not Just A Symbol
16. 23 AprBack Door Searches: One of Two Replacements for the Internet Dragnet?
17. 22 AprWhite Paper White Wash
18. 21 AprEFF to Reggie Walton: Stuart Delery and John Carlin Are Still Materially Misleading FISA Court
19. 21 AprSelective Leak to Michael Isikoff Proves the Undoing of Otherwise Successful Selective Leak Campaign on Drone Killing
20. 21 AprLatest Parchin Accusation: Centrifuges!
21. 21 AprHenceforth All Published IC Comment Should Be Considered Propaganda
22. 21 AprNSA’s New “Privacy Officer” Releases Her First Propaganda
23. 20 AprYet More Cell Phones IDed in Program that Purportedly Doesn’t Get Cell Phones
24. 20 AprObama White House Sponsors Young and Rich Narcissistic 1% Fucktards That Will Ruin the World
25. 19 AprIn 2009, DOJ Claimed Its Lawyers Could Not Read Docket Numbers in 2007
26. 19 AprIntelligence Response to KSM’s Claim Intelligence Supersedes Justice Holds Up His Own Trial
27. 18 AprDetention of Mutasim Agha Jan by UAE Now Confirmed, Basis Unknown
28. 18 AprDOJ Inspector General Investigating DEA’s Use of Parallel Construction under Hemisphere
29. 18 AprSurprise! DOJ IG’s 1,403 Day Old Section 215 Investigation Had a Baby!
30. 18 AprThe DOJ Inspector General’s Difficulties Getting Grand Jury Information
31. 17 AprA Guide to John Rizzo’s Lies, For Lazy Journalists
32. 17 AprWill Illegality of Nashiri Torture Get Exposed?
33. 17 AprIs This the Missing WikiLeaks PayPal Order?
34. 16 AprDangerous Censored Documents, in Soviet Russia and War on Terror America
35. 16 AprHot and Cold Running Bandar
36. 15 AprThe Terror Networks and the Hate Criminals
37. 15 AprWho Nabbed Mutasim Agha Jan in Dubai?
38. 14 AprObama’s Legal Hacks
39. 14 AprDOJ Says You Can’t Know If They’ve Used the Dragnet Against You … But FISC Says They’re Wrong
40. 14 AprThe Horrors! West Point 2014 Graduates Must Advance Careers Without Combat Deployment!
41. 13 AprSpy vs. Spy, Theresa Shea vs. Theresa Shea
42. 12 AprThe Day After Government Catalogs Data NSA Collected on Tsarnaevs, DOJ Refuses to Give Dzhokhar Notice
43. 12 AprWorking Thread on the Combined Marathon IG Report
44. 11 AprDropBox Turns to Condi Rice to Help Protect Users’ Rights Overseas
45. 11 AprIran Willing to Change Arak Reactor to Produce Less Plutonium it Can’t Reprocess Anyway
46. 11 AprChuck Grassley: Insider Threat Program Poses Threat to Whistleblowers
47. 10 AprJudge in WikiLeaks FOIA Cites “Events that Have Transpired,” Government Claims FOIA Is “Improper”
48. 10 AprPetraeus Plans for The Day After
49. 9 AprFingerprints and the Phone Dragnet’s Secret “Correlations” Order
50. 9 AprJames Clapper Doesn’t Want You To Know about Verizon’s Foreign Metadata Problem He Already Told You About
51. 9 AprBritish Captain Resigns from Military to Publish Book on Helmand Failures
52. 8 AprShorter DiFi: The Torture Report Started in Response to Michael Hayden’s Lie
53. 8 AprDianne Feinstein Invokes Torture’s Covert Status on Declassification
54. 8 AprThe August 20, 2008 Correlations Opinion
55. 8 AprIran Still Refusing to Confirm Death of Missing Border Guard
56. 7 AprIn Defending Dianne Feinstein, Ron Wyden Reminds that Michael Hayden Lied to Congress
57. 7 AprJudge Collyer’s Factually Erroneous Freelance Rubber Stamp for Killing American Citizens
58. 7 AprThe Torture Apologists Raise Brennan’s Torture-Derived Scary Memos
59. 7 AprUS Trade Rep Complains Other Countries Aren’t Letting NSA Spy
60. 7 AprHigh Urban Turnout, No Major Violence, But How Successful Was Afghan Election?
61. 6 AprThe Neverending CIA Drone Story Actually about Outsourced Intelligence
62. 4 AprDragnet FOIA, Hiding the Dragnet Numbers and Providers from Congress
63. 4 AprTurns Out the NSA “May” Destroy Evidence of Crimes before 5 Years Elapse
64. 4 AprChronicle of the Phone Dragnet
65. 4 AprAfghan Policeman Kills AP Photographer Niedringhaus, Wounds Reporter Gannon
66. 4 AprWhy Did 3 Top DOJ Officials Feed Their Dog DOJ’s Homework?
67. 3 AprThanks to Dianne Feinstein and Mark Udall for Seeing Torture Report Through
68. 3 AprDOJ Doesn’t Want You to Know about Any Inspire-related FISA Surveillance Programs
69. 3 AprAfghanistan Staggers Toward Election
70. 3 AprHow the Torture Report Declassification Is Likely to Work
71. 2 AprJames Clapper Continues to Cover Up FBI’s Back Door Searches on US Targets
72. 2 AprBillion Dollar Boondoggle: Israel’s Iron Dome Misfires
73. 2 AprCIA’s Own Records of CIA’s Lies to Congress
74. 2 AprIn Announcing Support for Declassifying Report, Susan Collins Uses Word “Torture”
75. 2 Apr[UPDATED] Russian GPS-Alternative Satellites Went ‘Illegal/Failure’: Solar Storm Damage or Cyberwar in Space?
76. 1 AprJames Clapper Confirms VADM Mike Rogers Needlessly Obfuscated in Confirmation Hearing
77. 1 AprHas Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security Infiltrated the Taliban?
78. 1 AprCIA’s Self-Authorization for Ice-Drowning Human Beings

March 2014

1. 31 MarWhy Did DoD Wait Over Three Months to Issue Records Preservation Order After SIGAR Request?
2. 31 MarKeith Alexander’s Bubble Floats into the Sunset of Defense Contractor Sinecures
3. 31 MarWhy Does NSA Get a Pass on the Boston Marathon Attack?
4. 30 MarRon Wyden, Refusing to Play Prosecutor, Says We Need to Ban Dragnet Collection of Purchase Records
5. 29 MarNewly-Released Dragnet Order Suggests Spike in 215 Orders May Include Financial Records
6. 28 MarWidely Varying Reports on First Talks Between Pakistan Government, TTP
7. 28 MarMore Clarity and Lack Thereof in the Obama Dragnet Reform
8. 28 MarHappy Birthday to Me, Mike Rogers Edition
9. 27 MarThe Reason Obama Capitulated on the (Phone) Dragnet
10. 27 MarFO Claims Captured Iranian Border Guards Not in Pakistan; Iran Threatens Use of Special Forces for Rescue
11. 27 MarInitial Thoughts on Obama’s Dragnet Fix
12. 27 MarDOJ’s Multiple Authorities for Destroying Evidence
13. 26 MarThe RuppRoge Fake Dragnet Fix, As Introduced: Does It Include Keith Alexander’s Quid Pro Quo?
14. 26 MarAfter US Adventure in Death Squad Training for Syria, Brennan Now Complains About al Qaeda Training There
15. 25 MarRuppRoge Fake Dragnet Fix Requires Intel Community to Update 30 Year Old EO 12333 Procedures
16. 25 MarA Key Part of RuppRoge’s Fake Dragnet Fix Reform: Pay the Telecoms
17. 25 MarJeish Al-Adl Executes One of Five Iranian Border Guards Abducted Last Month
18. 25 MarRuppRogers Fake Dragnet Fix Would End (?) Bulk Firearm Record Collection, But Not Bulk Credit Card Record Collection
19. 25 MarThe Other Problem with the Obama Proposal: Who Does the Pizza Joint Review?
20. 25 MarNSA Bids to Expand Spying in Guise of “Fixing” Phone Dragnet
21. 23 MarThe October 30, 2009 Statement of Authorities: The EFF Document Fight Could Get Very Interesting
22. 23 MarTaking Kaplan’s Defense of Empire on Its Face
23. 23 MarBob Litt and Rachel Brand Redefine “Incidental”
24. 22 MarHow the NSA Deals with a Threat to Its Backbone Hegemony
25. 22 MarDoes FBI EVER Age Off Its Section 702 Data?
26. 21 MarJudge Reggie Walton Is Pissed that Government Is Making Material Misstatements to FISC, Again
27. 21 MarFormer NSA General Counsel Robert Deitz, Who Rubber-Stamped Illegal Wiretap Program, Says All Felonies Should Be Prosecuted
28. 21 MarWith Over Half of Chemical Weapons-Related Stockpile Removed, Russia Says Syrian CW Potential Near Zero
29. 21 MarAmerica’s $1 Trillion Target Barge
30. 20 MarThe Navy SEALs Bring You Izahgneb! Saving Libya’s Crude for Marathon Oil!
31. 20 MarIn Describing CIA’s Attempted Intimidiation of Senate Intelligence Committee, Harry Reid Uses the Word “Unprecedented” Too
32. 20 MarRussia Expertly Plays US Press on P5+1 Talks
33. 20 MarGarr King’s Speculative FISA Ruling
34. 19 MarNSA Conducts So Many Back Door Searches on US Persons It Would Be Impracticable to Approve Those Queries
35. 19 MarRosencrantz and Guildenstern Visit Pee-Clob
36. 19 MarCarlotta Gall: ISI Sheltered Bin Laden in Pakistan
37. 18 MarThe Government Has a Festering EO 12333 Problem In Jewel/First Unitarian
38. 18 MarUS Pouts Over Potential Crimea Spillover While Russia Enters P5+1 Talks With Optimism
39. 17 MarMagistrate Judge Targets DOJ’s Search ≠ Seizure Theory
40. 17 MarThe Clear Precedent for Carrie Cordero’s “Uncharted Territory” of Destruction of Evidence
41. 17 MarThe Clear Precedent for Carrie Cordero’s “Uncharted Territory” of Destruction of Evidence
42. 17 MarConspiracy Stories Surrounding Nils Horner Murder Hard to Dismiss Due to US Behavior
43. 17 MarSitting Across from KSM: KSM’s Abu Ghaith Answers
44. 16 MarIn Tsarnaev-Related Case, DOJ Suggests There Is No Dragnet
45. 16 MarPhilip Mudd: Sitting Across from KSM Was Useful So Waterboarding Him 183 Times Was Too
46. 15 MarDid CIA’s Handsomely Paid Contractors Doctor Its Log Books, Again?
47. 15 MarThe Circus Returns: Formula One 2014
48. 14 MarJohn Brennan’s Parallel “Investigative, Protective, or Intelligence Activity”
49. 14 MarThe CIA’s Excuse: Hiding the Double Agents
50. 13 MarCaroline Krass Confirmed as CIA General Counsel in Landslide Vote
51. 13 MarSASC Hearing: Dunford Advocates for Forever War in Afghanistan
52. 12 MarAspiring Senate Intelligence Chair Richard Burr Goes After Mark Udall
53. 12 MarRobert Eatinger and CIA’s Counterterrorism Center Lawyers’ Lies about Torture: A Timeline
54. 12 MarIn Nomination Hearing, DIRNSA Nominee Mike Rogers Continues James Clapper and Keith Alexander’s Obfuscation about Back Door Searches
55. 12 MarStarving, Displaced Civilians: Ongoing Tragedy of War in Syria
56. 12 MarWhere the Bodies Are Buried: A Constitutional Crisis Feinstein Better Be Ready To Win
57. 11 MarJohn Brennan Trolls Emptywheel Even Before He Prevaricates in Response to Dianne Feinstein
58. 11 MarRobert Eatinger, Lawyer Who Approved Torture Tape Destruction, Tries to Intimidate Senate Investigators
59. 11 MarPakistan Suddenly Receives Mysterious $1.5 Billion
60. 11 MarThe Government Tries to Quickly Force Feed Its Dog Its Phone Dragnet Homework
61. 10 MarJohn Kiriakou’s Prosecution Is an Important Precedent to CIA – Senate Intelligence Committee Spat
62. 10 MarPause in Afghan Presidential Campaign With Death of Vice President; Taliban Vow to Disrupt
63. 9 MarNotice Of Tinkering Going On
64. 7 MarFISA Court Finally Discovers a Limit to the Word “Relevant”
65. 7 MarDOJ’s Leaky SCIF Double Standards
66. 6 MarIf CIA Pwned SSCI’s Segregated Shared Drive, the Torture Report Should Be FOIA-able
67. 6 MarDo Senators Collins, King, and Warner Like Being Spied On?
68. 6 MarUS Strike Kills Five Afghan Soldiers in Charkh District
69. 6 MarOperation Stall
70. 5 MarVerizon VP: Company-Based Transparency Reports Don’t Help Consumers
71. 5 MarImran Khan, Samuil Haq State US Does Not Want Peace Negotiations in Pakistan
72. 5 MarCIA Hacks Its Overseers
73. 4 MarMark Udall: CIA Took “Unprecedented Action” Against SSCI on Its Own Torture Report
74. 4 MarWTF Sprint Suit?
75. 4 MarSyria On Track For Destruction of All Chemical Weapon Related Materials by July
76. 3 MarIs Twitter EFF’s Second NSL Client?
77. 3 MarRapid Developments in Pakistan: TTP Ceasefire, Halt to Air Strikes, Suicide Bombs in Islamabad
78. 3 MarThe Naked and Unbound Ambition of Kyrsten Sinema
79. 3 MarMinority Report on Ukraine, or What’s Venezuela Got to Do with It?
80. 2 MarOn America’s Spent Moral Standing
81. 2 MarThe (Other Possibility) Inert UndieBomb 2.0
82. 2 MarThe Filings DOJ Is Withholding In Jewel/Shubert
83. 1 MarOf Neo-Fascists and Smiley-Face Neoliberals

February 2014

1. 28 Feb2008’s New and Improved EO 12333: Sharing SIGINT
2. 28 FebHow Will Pakistan Implement New Security Policy?
3. 27 FebKeith Alexander’s One Step Solution
4. 27 FebNSA May Not Voyeuristically Pore Through Email But GCHQ Voyeuristically Pores Through WebCam Pictures
5. 27 FebDahl, Reuters Grant Anonymity to “Sources” Peddling Iran Info Rejected by IAEA
6. 26 FebNSA’s Newfound Concern about Defendants’ Rights under FISA
7. 26 FebJan Brewer’s Veto of SB-1062, Timing and Best Interests of Arizona
8. 26 FebFBI’s Curious Silence about the Waltham Murders
9. 26 FebWhy Are SSCI Members Asking So Many Questions about Torture?
10. 26 FebJack Goldsmith’s Still Active Presidential Dragnet Authorization
11. 26 FebPreparations Underway for Zero Option in Afghanistan
12. 26 FebDOJ: Our Delayed Notice Doesn’t Mean You Can Withdraw Your Plea
13. 25 FebConfirmed: DOJ Uses Section 702 to Get Title I FISA Warrants
14. 25 FebDoes Acting National Security Division Head John Carlin Know about FISA Sections 703 and 704?
15. 25 FebIn Sworn Declaration about Dragnet, NSA Changes Its Tune about Scope of “This Program”
16. 25 FebIs John Brennan Shaping Pakistan’s New Counterterrorism Program?
17. 24 FebHow to Avoid Rubber-Stamping another Drone Execution: Leave
18. 24 Feb“It’s Tough on My Family:” A Tale of Two Teachers
19. 24 FebApple’s Go to Fail Response
20. 24 FebAfghan Army Post in Kunar Province Overrun by Taliban, 21 Killed
21. 24 FebDOJ’s Reaffirmation of Journalist NSLs and the Undiebomb 2.0 and StuxNet Investigations
22. 22 FebEl Chapo
23. 22 FebDOJ Will Continue to Use NSLs to Get Journalist Contacts
24. 22 FebGAP, POGO, Experience Break-Ins
25. 21 FebDid CIA Lie to DOJ about When They Tortured Hassan Ghul?
26. 21 FebThe American Bar Association: Since NSA Is Committed to the Rule of Law, It MUST Respect Attorney-Client Privilege
27. 21 FebDid GCHQ and NSA Lose an Eye Today?
28. 21 FebDHS Fear-Mongers Off Apparent Diminishment in Ibrahim al-Asiri’s Skills
29. 20 FebJudge William Martini Endorses Hunting for Terrorists in Muslim Girls Schools
30. 20 Feb1st Amendment Justice Delayed is Justice Denied for Col. Morris Davis
31. 20 FebChelsea Manning Wonders Whether She Could Have Gotten Anwar al-Awlaki’s Treatment
32. 20 FebFramework in Place for P5+1, Iran Final Nuclear Negotiations
33. 20 FebNSA’s Data Retention Oddities
34. 19 FebBetween Two Ends of the WikiLeaks Investigation: Parallel Constructing the FBI’s Secret Authorities
35. 19 FebPeace Talks Prove Fatal for Yet Another Participant
36. 18 FebAT&T’s “Transparency” Report: Polite Requests Versus Demands
37. 18 FebWould We Have Accepted the Dragnet if NSA Had to Admit It Could Have Prevented 9/11?
38. 18 FebMeanwhile, Back in Syria…
39. 18 FebAT&T: Anti-Transparency and Trickery
40. 18 FebObviously Bogus Clapper Exoneration Attempt 5.0 Doesn’t Exactly Line Up with OBCEA 4.0
41. 17 FebSPCMA: The Other NSA Dragnet Sucking In Americans
42. 17 FebPakistan Facing Difficult Choice: Peace Talks or Military Action?
43. 16 FebThe NSA May Not “Target” Lawyers, But It Does “Spy” on Them
44. 16 FebFormer Professional Journalist Suggests NYT Shouldn’t Pay Its Journalists
45. 16 FebKeith Alexander Refutes Claims NSA Doesn’t Get Cell Data
46. 15 FebSince Spying to Benefit Monsanto Is Not Industrial Espionage, It’s Okay
47. 15 FebOn the Definition of Dragnet “Identifier”
48. 14 FebToday’s NSA-Related Orwellianism: “Derived From”
49. 14 FebIf One Judge Gives FISA Review, and Another Judge Gives FISA Review, All Hell Will Break Loose!
50. 14 FebWhite House, Congress Arguing Over Which Senate Committee Should Fail in Drone Oversight
51. 13 FebObama’s New Phone Dragnet Pre-Review Policy Supports Dragnet-as-Index Understanding
52. 13 FebCongress Currently Has Access to the Phone Dragnet Query Results
53. 13 FebDisappeared Pakistani Drone Activist Planned ICC Testimony
54. 13 FebIs Hemisphere Creating Problems for the Phone Dragnet?
55. 13 FebOmaha! Omaha! The Alert that Won’t Alert
56. 12 FebPCLOB Chair David Medine on the 30% Claims
57. 12 FebUS Decries Rule of Law in Afghanistan While Calling for Overruling Afghan Attorney General
58. 12 FebNSA’s Single Section 215 Success Would Probably Be Impossible If NSA’s Latest Claims Were True
59. 11 FebOn the Day Ron Wyden Asked Whether NSA Complied with US v. Jones, It Collected 4 Billion Cell Location Records
60. 11 FebSection 215 FISC Orders Specifically Included Mobile Phone IDs Starting in 2008
61. 11 FebIs There a 702 Certificate for Transnational Crime Organizations?
62. 11 FebLeast Surprising Appeal Ever: Back Door Search Edition
63. 11 FebIran-Pakistan Border Incidents Continue
64. 10 FebEd Felten on the 30% Collection Claim and Technical Debt
65. 10 FebIn Cut and Paste Tumblr Post, James Clapper Describes Who We Can Spy on without Discriminants
66. 10 Feb“Destroy Them Immediately:” William McRaven Adopts the Jose Rodriguez Approach
67. 10 FebThe Drone Assassinate Americans Overseas That Want to Kill Americans Overseas Plan
68. 10 FebCivilian Casualties Rise Yet Again in Afghanistan, Confirming Surge Failure
69. 10 FebDeath by Geolocation: “We’re Going after Their Phones”
70. 9 FebWill NSA Lose Access to All Verizon Cell Metadata in 12 Days Time?
71. 9 FebThe Faulty Premise of the 30% Call Data Claims: Legal Limits on Geolocation Data
72. 8 FebDOD Complains about “Speculative” Risk of Bulk Collection
73. 8 FebNSA’s Latest Claim: It Only Gets 30% of “Substantially All” the Hay in the Haystack
74. 7 FebFriday News Dump Not Dead Yet: Stephen Kim Guilty Plea
75. 7 FebThe Lapses in Dragnet Notice to Congress
76. 7 FebBreaking: Four Senators Rediscover Congress Has Oversight Role for Committing Troops
77. 6 Febemptywheel and First Look Media: Beginnings and Continuity
78. 6 FebThe Twitter Gag
79. 6 FebPeace Talks Between Pakistan Government and Taliban Are Underway
80. 6 FebGCHQ DDoS Hackers Hang Out with NSA’s Audit-Free Techies
81. 5 FebThe “McCain Committee” Would Be Full of NSA Defenders
82. 5 FebDensity within Legal Density
83. 5 FebThe State Monopoly on DDoS
84. 5 FebMike Rogers Throws Tantrum Over Obama’s Drone Policy
85. 5 FebJames Clapper Confirms NSA Engages in Domestic Surveillance
86. 4 FebContractors Already Have Access to the Phone Dragnet
87. 4 FebMike Rogers Aims to Criminalize One of the Main Things that Affords Journalists Protections: Getting Paid
88. 4 FebAfghanistan, Pakistan Peace Talks With Taliban Continuously Marred by Posturing, Intervention
89. 4 FebThe “Foreign Intelligence” Dragnet May Not Be about “Foreign Intelligence”
90. 3 FebWere the 58-61,000 Internet Targets Part of NSA’s 73,000 Targets?
91. 3 FebIs Google Sharing 9,500 Users’ Data, or 65,000?
92. 3 FebUS Official Position Says Hacking Is Permissible?
93. 3 FebFor the Purposes of Analytical Efficiency, Making Copies of the Dragnet
94. 2 FebSuper Bowl Sex Trafficking Trash Talk 2014
95. 2 FebMichael Hayden: Bulk Collection Is Better for Privacy than Particularized Collection
96. 1 FebGoldilocks Porridge of NSA Reform

January 2014

1. 31 JanMirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who’s the Hackiest of Them All?
2. 31 JanThe FBI’s Improving Cooperation with FSB
3. 31 JanWhen Judge Reggie Walton Disappeared the FBI Director: The Tell that FISC Wasn’t Following the Law
4. 31 JanPublic Finally Realizes Military Failed in Iraq & Afghanistan, But Will Pentagon & Pols Learn?
5. 31 JanThe 5-Eyes Tippecanoe — Er, Tipping & Cueing
6. 30 JanDzhokhar Tsarnaev Faces the Death Penalty
7. 30 JanReuters Allows Anonymous “Diplomats” to Blame Syria for Delays Mostly US’ Fault
8. 30 JanJim Comey: For FBI, Section 215 Only Provides Agility
9. 29 JanAdel Daoud Wins Review of FISA Application
10. 29 JanIs CIA Spying Domestically by Hacking Americans’ Computers?
11. 29 JanDianne Feinstein Protects John Brennan from Being Called a Liar
12. 29 JanJello Jay Rockefeller: Associational Database Is “Core Governmental Function”
13. 29 JanShuttle Diplomats Are Better Than Shuttle War Mongers
14. 28 JanClapper and Holder Remind Us “Disclosure” Mostly Pertains to Targets
15. 28 JanVerizon’s Storefront
16. 28 JanUS Doubles Down on “Crazy Karzai” Meme
17. 28 JanWould NSA’s New Big Social Media Data Approach Have Noticed the Arab Spring?
18. 27 JanJudge Lamberth Takes DOJ to Woodshed; DOJ Moves Peas Under Different Pods
19. 27 JanThe New Transparency Guidelines
20. 27 JanImportant: Changes to Section 215 Dragnet Will Not Change Treatment of EO 12333 Metadata
21. 27 JanGlass Shattered: California Supreme Court Denies Stephen Glass Law License
22. 27 JanThe Latest in Terrorist Training: Playing Angry Birds
23. 27 JanSusan Collins Can’t Decide Whether to Abandon Her Infant, PCLOB
24. 27 JanThe Unspeakable Tragedy of Homeless Drones
25. 27 JanIs NSA Wiretapping Now Rather than Tipping?
26. 26 JanThe Dead-Enders Insist Their Illegal Dragnet Was and Is Not One
27. 26 JanThe RNC and the Dead-Enders
28. 26 JanIs Sharif Making a Play for Counterterrorism Funds US Cut from Afghanistan Budget?
29. 25 JanThe Corporate Store: Where NSA Goes to Shop Your Content and Your Lifestyle
30. 24 JanAncient History: December 2012 in the Dragnet
31. 24 JanThe Impasse on Executive Spying
32. 24 JanYou Can’t Spread Justice in an Insecure Country
33. 24 JanAre Even the Basaaly Moalin Claims Falling Apart Now?
34. 24 JanIf by “Big Data” You Mean “Big Campaign Donations”
35. 23 JanNSA, Destroying the Evidence
36. 23 JanPCLOB Estimates 120 Million Phone Numbers in Corporate Store
37. 23 JanThe Immediate Phone Dragnet Fixes Obama Rejected
38. 23 JanPCLOB Report, Working Thread
39. 23 JanPCLOB Adopts the Drip Drip Drip Approach Too
40. 23 JanPCLOB Told Mike Rogers They Would Discuss Legality of Dragnet
41. 23 JanHow NSA Spies on First Amendment Protected Speech: The EO 12333 Loophole
42. 22 JanProject Minaret 2.0: Now, with 58% More Illegal Targeting!
43. 22 JanWhat Michael Flynn’s DIA Imputes to Facts We Know
44. 22 JanThird Party Booz(e)
45. 22 JanDoes the Military Have a New Goal of Hanging Afghanistan Failure on Obama?
46. 22 JanApparently, US Officials Can’t Get Verizon on the Line
47. 22 JanFISA Warranted Targets and the Phone Dragnet
48. 21 JanScorecard: Snowden-Related Publication of Verizon’s Name — 1. ODNI Publication of Verizon’s Name — 1.
49. 21 Jan9th Circuit Extends Equal Protection (and Batson) to Sexual Identity
50. 21 JanOnce Again, Pew Misunderstands the Dragnet
51. 21 JanAnd Now the Counterproliferation Excuse to Expand the Dragnet
52. 21 JanAttacks and Counterattacks: TTP and Pakistani Military Escalate Actions
53. 20 JanThe Privacy Problems (?) of Outsourcing the Dragnet
54. 20 JanCompensating the Dragnet
55. 20 JanObama’s Dragnet: Policeman of the Whole World
56. 20 JanIAEA Confirms Iran Has Halted Uranium Enrichment to 20%
57. 20 JanYes, Verizon, We Can Hear You Now
58. 19 JanThe Tech Back Door in Obama’s New Spying Policy
59. 19 JanThe Conference Championships Trash Talk
60. 18 JanThe Phone Metadata Program Metadata
61. 17 JanThe Misplaced Enthusiasm for Obama’s 2-Hop “Change”
62. 17 JanObama’s Presidential Policy Directive: Pixie Dust 2.0
63. 17 JanObama’s Speech, Annotated Version
64. 17 JanFirst Impressions, Obama’s Speech
65. 17 JanThings Barack Obama Doesn’t Consider “Abuse”
66. 17 JanNot Content With Stoking Iran Tensions Through “Analysis”, Albright Tries His Hand at Legislation
67. 16 JanThe Schneier Briefing: Some Observations
68. 16 JanBig Text Message
69. 16 JanThe Section 215 Phone Dragnet Is Just a Fraction of the Dragnet
70. 16 JanThe Virgin Rebirth of CIA’s Drone Wars and NSA’s Cyberwars
71. 16 JanJeremy Scahill: Two Degrees of Separation from the Dirty Wars Dragnet
72. 16 JanLatest Night Raid Afghan Civilian Deaths Put BSA into Further Doubt
73. 15 JanFormer Presiding Judge, John Bates, Makes Compelling Case to Eliminate FISA Court
74. 15 JanJohn Galt Contaminates West Virginia Water Supply Because Industries Demand Freedom
75. 15 JanFaster and Furiouser Domestic Spying: Why Would the NSA Review Group Talk to the ATF?
76. 15 JanDragnet at Bernie’s: On Spying on Congress
77. 15 JanNSA: The Hegemon’s Economic Spying Is Okay, Unlike the Challenger’s Economic Spying
78. 15 JanThe Common Commercial Services OLC Opinion Affecting Cyber Policy Is Over a Decade Old
79. 14 JanRadical Idea: the Legislature Ends Smith v. Maryland
80. 14 JanWhat Was the Purpose of the Exigent Letter Program?
81. 14 JanMore Fallout From Hakimullah Mehsud Drone Killing: Polio Vaccines Halted in Waziristan
82. 14 JanThe Government Plays Connect-the-Dots Differently than They Say
83. 13 Jan6th Circuit: You Can Still Represent Yourself if Solitary Confinement Has Made You Incompetent
84. 13 JanRobert Litt and Mike Rogers KNOW Congress Hasn’t Ratified the Phone Dragnet
85. 13 JanImplementation of Interim Agreement With Iran Begins January 20, Paving Way for Further Negotiations
86. 13 JanThe NSA Does Know the Identity of Some of the Targets It Is Contact-Chaining
87. 13 JanRichard Clarke Alludes to the Real Costs of the Dragnet
88. 12 JanYes, Margaret, the NSA Dragnet Does Involve Infiltration
89. 11 JanSpring Training Divisional Trash
90. 11 JanWhen FBI Director Jim Comey Ate 20 Journalists for Lunch, NSL Edition
91. 10 JanIt Turns Out CREDO Will Respond to Administration Subpoenas
92. 10 JanIs PCLOB Holding Out for EO 12,333 Information?
93. 10 JanLet’s Prosecute Treasury, State, and Drone Misses for Illegal Leaking
94. 10 JanJohn Inglis Explains Why (US-Based Collection of) Internet Metadata Doesn’t Work
95. 10 JanUS Stumbling Toward Exit From Afghanistan
96. 9 JanObama Approves Releasing Classified Information to Attack Snowden for Leaking Classified Information
97. 9 JanAfter Meeting with Obama, Bob Goodlatte Calls for Reform of Phone Dragnet
98. 9 JanThe Senate Torture Report and CIA’s Lies about Hassan Ghul’s 2004 Torture
99. 9 JanDrones and Double Agents: Hassan Ghul
100. 9 JanA Remembrance of Judge John Roll
101. 8 JanThe FBI (or NSA?)’s Bulk National Security Letters
102. 8 JanYesterday’s “Symbolic” Gesture Is Today’s Long-Held Political Stance
103. 8 JanThe Maneuvers to Get Ahead of the NSA Review Group Recommendations
104. 8 JanIt Was JSOC, with the Errant Drone Targeting, in the Yemeni Countryside
105. 8 JanMajor Human Rights Victory: South Korea Halts Shipment of Tear Gas to Bahrain
106. 7 JanProposal for the New Year: Training Wheels for Peace
107. 7 JanSucky Assessments of the Phone Dragnet Reveal How Much They’re Keeping “Secret”
108. 7 JanThe $3 Billion Saudi Pledge to Lebanon: Military Support, Extradition Fee or Hit Job Payment?
109. 6 JanMaybe Jim Comey Killed Off the Nation’s Premier Law Enforcement Agency?
110. 6 JanDid the Hospital Confrontation Shut Down an Illegal Dragnet against Iraq War Critics?
111. 6 JanCrimes against Secrecy, Crimes against the Constitution
112. 6 JanOut of Control? NATO to Khan: We Have Nothing to Do With Brennan’s CIA Drone Strikes
113. 6 JanJohn Rizzo Buries the Mock Burial
114. 5 JanParallel Constructing Daoud’s Emails
115. 4 JanObviously Bogus Clapper Exoneration Attempt 4.0
116. 4 JanDivisional Playoffs 2014 Trash Talk
117. 4 Jan“Righteous:” Noah’s Ark’s Funding Woes
118. 3 JanLindsey Graham and John McCain: Hypocrisy Tourists in Kabul
119. 3 Jan2 Agents 3 Hours a Day Weren’t REALLY Reading Anwar al-Awlaki’s Email
120. 2 JanAfter Petraeus Paid Them For Peace, Are Sunnis of Anbar Now Paid by Bandar For Killing?
121. 2 JanJohn Rizzo Declares Entire Torture Program Illegal
122. 2 JanThe Source of the Section 702 Limitations: Special Needs?
123. 1 JanThe Obama as Civil Libertarian Propaganda Rolls Out
124. 1 JanNew Year’s Trash
125. 1 JanHappy New Year!