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December 2016

  1. Your Weekly Alarming Anonymous Friday Night WaPo Dump: Vermont Electrical Grid Edition
  2. The Future of Work Part 2: The View From the White House
  3. Sanctioning GRU … and FSB
  4. The Conspiracy Theory in YouGov’s Conspiracy Theory Poll
  5. The Latest Chinese Hacking Story: Bots within Bots
  6. Christmas 2016 Trash Talk
  7. John Brennan, Doing the Holiday Friday News Dump Wrong
  8. The Future of Work Part 1: John Maynard Keynes
  9. As of August 29, 2016, Not All High Risk Users at NSA Had Two-Factor Authentication
  10. Working Thread: HPSCI’s Full Unbelievably Shitty Snowden Report
  11. How HPSCI’s Staffers Used Miscitations to Turn Edward Snowden into a Lying Flunkie
  12. NYT Kills the CyberCzars, then Translates Them into Russian
  13. The Shadow Brokers: “A Nice Little NSA You’ve Got Here; It’d Be a Shame If…”
  14. The Hashtag DrainTheSwamp and the Structure of Trump’s Power
  15. One Day After Senior Intelligence Official Leaks Details of “Red Phone” Call, Russia Cuts Back Communications with the US
  16. Now the Spooks Are Leaking Criticism of Obama’s Sole Use of the “Red Phone”
  17. Matt Olsen Admits He Didn’t Bargain on a President Trump
  18. 16 Words: “The British government has learned that Vladimir Putin recently sought significant quantities of votes for Trump”
  19. Lefties Learn to Love Leaks Again
  20. Obama’s Response to Russia’s Hack: An Emphasis on America’s More Generalized Vulnerability
  21. Trash Talk – Week 15
  22. Liberal Bubbles and Conservative Intellectuals
  23. Russian Hack-Related Excerpts from President Obama’s Press Conference
  24. Just Before Obama Weighs in on the Russian Hack, John Brennan Tells Everyone What He Says Others Said
  25. The DNC’s Evolving Story about When They Knew They Were Targeted by Russia
  26. Craig Murray’s Description of WikiLeaks’ Sources
  27. Dealing With Trump Voters
  28. Democrats Can Do Better than “Wonk Harder” on ObamaCare Going Forward
  29. “Jim Comey thinks he was handed a shit sandwich”
  30. The NYT’s Legitimate Email Detail
  31. Why Is CIA Avoiding the Conclusion that Putin Hacked Hillary to Retaliate for Its Covert Actions?
  32. The ObamaCare Not Comey Effect
  33. Week 14 Trash Talk
  34. While America Debates Rex Tillerson Nomination, Saudis and Russians Join Hands to Raise Oil Prices
  35. The Not-Majority Leader Promises Bipartisan Investigations in Russian Cyberhackery
  36. The Evidence to Prove the Russian Hack
  37. Unpacking the New CIA Leak: Don’t Ignore the Aluminum Tube Footnote
  38. Donald Trump’s Intelligence Briefings and Ellsberg’s Limits of Knowledge
  39. The Game of Telephone about the Election Hacking Review
  40. Does Dark Marketing Have a Function in Trump’s Mobs?
  41. DISTANTFISH and Correlations
  42. The Bible Still Outperforms Facebook in Delivering Fake News
  43. Wednesday: Tick-Tock Stock
  44. The #FakeNews about Iraqi WMD Got Hundreds of Thousands Killed
  45. 9th Circuit Rules that Mohamed Osman Mohamud Might Have Killed Like a Bunch of White Mass Killers Had the FBI Not Intervened
  46. Show Us Where the Bad Men Touched You, Jason
  47. Two Lessons of the Robin Raphel Case
  48. Our Syrian Rebels Are Issuing Threats Via WaPo
  49. SOS Trash Talk, College and Pro
  50. DOJ Still Claiming Its Kid Glove Oversight of Prosecutors Is Adequate
  51. MI AG Bill Schuette Is Always on the Wrong Side of History — So I Now Enthusiastically Back MI’s Recount
  52. Our Industrial Policy Is the F-35
  53. CYBERCOM versus NSA: On Fighting Isis or Spying on Them

November 2016

  1. Vox Media, Where You Can Make $15 an Hour to Insinuate Fight for $15 Is Just about Alliteration
  2. Seven Democrats Write Obama Asking Him to Declassify More Information on Russian Involvement in the Election
  3. King Arthur Slays Internet Traffic to UK’s Tax Haven with Tons of Steel
  4. Look Closer to Home: Russian Propaganda Depends on the American Structure of Social Media
  5. McCain Has One Way to Prevent Torture under Trump — Oppose Pompeo and Sessions
  6. WaPo Cleans Up a False Michael McFaul Allegation about RT
  7. According to PropOrNot’s Conspiratorial Criteria, WaPo Is a US Intelligence Outlet
  8. The Stein Recount Needle and the Damage Done
  9. Ari Fleischer Calls for a Return of Jeff Gannon
  10. The White House Attempts to Unring the Election Integrity Fearmongering
  11. Post Turkey Trash Talk
  12. Gratitude
  13. The Self Serving Jill Stein Recount Scam
  14. Security, Territory and Population Part 6: Pastoral Power and Interim Conclusion of Series
  15. Flashback: The Road Ahead
  16. Flashback: Rougher Roads
  17. Giving Thanks and Other Thanksgiving Trash
  18. Flashback: A Personal Journey
  19. Flashback: This Miserable State
  20. Swear or Affirm, Protect and Defend
  21. NFL Week 11
  22. Trump Versus the [Dead-Ender] Spooks
  23. When Trump Brought Romney To Heel, or Further Adventures in the Cabinet of Deplorables
  24. The Sessions Nomination and the “Emergency Exception”
  25. BREAKING: President-Elect Trump Can’t Tell Difference between Lincoln Navigator MKC and Ford Focus
  26. One Thing Edward Snowden Is Not a Fucking Idiot About
  27. On Solidarity in the Face of Muslim Registry Plans
  28. NSA Conducts FISA Section 704 Collection Using Transit Collection
  29. The Purge, the Benghazi Report, and Trump’s Claim Obama Created ISIS
  30. Day Six: Our First Purge
  31. The Blame the Media Movement
  32. Post Election Trash Talk
  33. About that Russian Hacker Story
  34. What Was the Role of ObamaCare Premium Hikes in Trump’s Win?
  35. The Blame Comey Movement
  36. Is FBI Still Fluffing Its Encryption Numbers?
  37. False Reassurances: On Pixie Dusted Executive Orders, Appendix M, and Proxy Detention and Torture
  38. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted Dems And Clickbait Complicit Media Who Got Us Here?
  39. The Unlearned Lessons of Obama’s Guns, God, and Religion Comments
  40. Will Trump’s Skepticism about NATO Bring EU Closer Together?
  41. Why Democrats May Embrace Jim Comey’s Self-Righteousness in 12 Months
  42. The Day After Election Day 2016
  43. Election Day 2016
  44. Monday: A Border Too Far
  45. NYT Ombud Calls for More Unproven Fearmongering
  46. FBI’s Demographics: No Pot Smokers, but Lots of Middle Aged White Men
  47. Waveland and The North Side, Sweet Home Chicago
  48. Friday: When the Beau Breaks and Brakes
  49. Threat Level Orange! Election Week Plot!
  50. “Glitch!” FBI’s Three Leaked Claims about the Delay in Obtaining a Warrant for Huma’s Email
  51. Europe Gets Impatient for Yahoo Answers
  52. Now Would Be a Good Time to Restore Statutory Authority of DOJ’s Inspector General
  53. Wednesday: Feliz Dia de los Muertos — Happy Day of the Dead!
  54. Signaling: Schumer Has Lost Faith in Comey
  55. My Boob Clinic Is Part of an International Spying Plot … but Hillary’s on It!
  56. If Richard Burr Jokes about Assassination in Secret, What Else Does He Joke about in Secret?

October 2016

  1. Or Maybe the FBI Really Did Have a Reason to Stay Off the Russian Attribution?
  2. Halloween Monday: Dying for Love
  3. Anthony Weiner Creates a Virgin Birth for Evidence the Clinton Foundation Investigators Want
  4. London Calling: What Is The NFL Doing? And other Trash Talk
  5. The Story About Judicial Dysfunction Behind the Comey Whiplash
  6. Saturday: Hey! It’s Apple Picking Season
  7. Friday: Sinnerman
  8. FBI Has Almost 20 Cybers Stationed around the World
  9. Consent of the Governed
  10. Security, Territory and Population: Foucault on Power
  11. In Spying, “Things like phone numbers or emails” Turn Out to Be Far More
  12. The Jetzon’s Self Driving Auto Car Drone Aint Here Yet
  13. The Kids Are Alright Trash Talk
  14. Yahoo to Clapper: Global, Global, Beyond our Borders, Global
  15. Third Presidential Debate — Open Thread
  16. Some Cops Will Stand against Grabbing Women By Their P*$$y, But Not the National Fraternal Order of Police
  17. When Reporters Discover Selective Leak Targeting
  18. The Same Month CBP Missed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, It Was Ramping Up Searches for “Good” Guys
  19. This Stupid Election Campaign
  20. In Latest Russian Plot, WikiLeaks Reveals Hillary Opposes ISDS
  21. NSA, Lazarus, and Odinaff
  22. Tuesday: Disinfowar Dust Up
  23. On Provenance and Putin: That Sid Blumenthal Story
  24. Can the Government Use FISA to Get Evidence of Past Criminal Activities?
  25. Argument: The DNC Hack Attribution Was A Response to Brick and Mortar Events
  26. Second Presidential Debate — Open Thread
  27. Week Five NFL Trash Talk: The Return of Brady
  28. More Thoughts on the Yahoo Scan
  29. Trump Is Who He’s Always Been, And Trump Is the Epitome of the GOP; They Have To Own Him
  30. FBI’s Surveillance Arbitrage, First Amendment Edition
  31. Does a Fifth of Yahoo’s Value Derive from (Perceived) Security and Privacy?
  32. Thursday: Science Fair
  33. The Yahoo Scan: On Facilities and FISA
  34. BREAKING! There Were State-Sponsored Terrorists Operating in the US in 2015
  35. HAL (er, um, BAH) Bites NSA
  36. Wednesday: This One Day
  37. Since September 20, 2012, FBI Has Been Permitted to Share FISA-Derived Hacking Information with Internet Service Providers
  38. Tuesday: Open to Debate
  39. The Yahoo Scans Closely Followed Obama’s Cybersecurity Emergency Declaration
  40. “In the First Half of 2016” Signal Received an (Overbroad) Subpoena
  41. Is Trump’s $915 Million Tax Loss Connected to an Exotic Tax Shelter?
  42. When Donald Trump Doubled Down on Donald Sterling’s Racism, Bigotry and Misogyny
  43. Monday: American Mouth
  44. Trump Charity A Continuing Fraud On The People Of New York
  45. The Trees Have Fallen and The State of NFL Labor

September 2016

  1. Friday: Fusion
  2. Feedback, Please!
  3. Thursday: Another Grungey Anniversary Observed
  4. Wednesday: Time Travel
  5. The Questions That Should Be Being Asked About Trump’s Tax Returns
  6. Gone Fishing Cycling
  7. America, Friday Night Lights and Ditka Is An Ass Trash
  8. Hillary Claims to Support Targeted Spying But Advisor Matt Olsen Was Champion of Bulk Spying
  9. Yahoo’s Three Hacks
  10. Why Is DOD Paying Dataminr $13M for Data It Claims to Believe Twitter Won’t Deliver?
  11. Wednesday: Big Wheels Turning
  12. After We Help the Saudis Commit More War Crimes We’re Going to Mars!
  13. Welcome to the New and Improved Emptywheel
  14. Tolstoy On Iraq
  15. What Happens When Visa Applicants Forget Their Old Social Media IDs?
  16. Why Is HPSCI’s Snowden Report So Inexcusably Shitty?
  17. I’m On The Lamb, But I Ain’t No Sheep Trash Talk
  18. HPSCI: We Must Spy Like Snowden To Prevent Another Snowden
  19. A Cosmopolitan Defense of Snowden
  20. If Snowden Doesn’t Know Privacy Protections of 702, That’s a Problem with NSA Training
  21. FBI can’t pretend to be the AP without special approval. They can pretend to be Apple.
  22. A Busy Day for the Bears
  23. John McCain Wants to “Expose” Twitter for Refusing to Sell Your Twitter Data in Bulk to CIA
  24. Tuesday: Change of Pace
  25. Security Territory and Population Part 5: Governmentality And Introduction to Foucault’s Method
  26. ‘Picking on’ Volkswagen: Why Follow Dieselgate?
  27. 9/11: A Story of Attacks, Horror, Victims, Heroes and Jingoistic Shame
  28. America’s War against Terror Drugs Justice
  29. Are You Ready For Some Football? Week One Trash Talk
  30. Wherein Mose Allison Presaged The Blight Of The Donald Trump Mouth
  31. Hillary Clinton’s Three Devices
  32. Thursday: Alien Occupation
  33. The Misunderstandings of the Anti-Transparency Hillary-Exonerating Left
  34. Guccifer 1’s Potentially Russian IP Address
  35. Tuesday: In a Season of Crime
  36. Jim Comey Impugns Pot Smokers Again
  37. FBI’s Fancy Bear Cyber Structure
  38. The Return of Football Trash Talk: Brady Versus the Ess Eee See
  39. In Attempted Hit Piece, NYT Makes Putin Hero of Defeating TPP

August 2016

  1. SEKRIT Memo: Ix-Nay on the Artians-May
  2. Wednesday: If I Had a Heart
  3. Breaking: Russians Claim They’ve Found Extraterrestrial Life to Tamper with Our Elections
  4. Monday: A Different Ark
  5. Thursday: Only You
  6. Takedowns of Shadow Brokers Files Affirm Files as Stolen
  7. The Two Tales of Russia Hacking NYT
  8. North Dakota and Feds Suppress Native American Pipeline Protesters
  9. Monday: Build That Wall
  10. The Government Uses FISCR Fast Track to Put Down Judges’ Rebellion, Expand Content Collection
  11. Blame It On The Bossa Nova: Lochte and Brazilian Police
  12. Breaking from Saudi Arabia!!! Two Month Old Misleading News
  13. Wealthy Elites and Blowjobs
  14. Friday: Smells Like
  15. Where Are NSA’s Overseers on the Shadow Brokers Release?
  16. Thursday: Creep
  17. DC Cooties
  18. Tuesday: One String
  19. Monday: Skate Away
  20. Six Years Later, the US Continues to Facilitate Saudi War Crimes
  21. Security Territory and Population Part 4: Conclusion of Description of Security and Population
  22. Friday: The Immoral Minority
  23. Maybe FBI Has Lost Track of Who the Informants Are?
  24. Until at Least 2014, NSA Was Having Troubles Preventing Back Door Searches of Upstream Searches
  25. Tuesday: En Garde
  26. Yes, the Drone Rule Book Is a One-Off
  27. The Just Right Fear Industry, in 18,000 Words
  28. Just Another Misogynist Monday
  29. The Classified Appendix Fifth Bullet on “Certain Counterterrorism Matters”
  30. Drone Rule Book, Working Thread
  31. Training Camp Trash Talk
  32. Friday: Little Fly
  33. Tear Up Texas, Tear Up Another Encryption Claim
  34. CIA Director Entry Number 2: Mike Morell, Fabulist
  35. Thursday: Move
  36. One Beheaded Child Here and There…
  37. Wednesday: Not the Shape
  38. Eli Lake’s Portrayal of the CIA Director Campaign: Drones, Benghazi, and … ?
  39. What Price Victory?
  40. Tuesday: Allez Vous F
  41. Monday: Grey Bull

July 2016

  1. Did Wikileaks Do US Intelligence Bidding in Publishing the Syria Files?
  2. Brennan Calls Out the Press for Giving ISIS More Credit Than They Deserve
  3. Was “Computer Network” “Analytics Data Program” Hacked at Hillary HQ VAN or Something Else?
  4. I Con the Record Rolls Out Its 3-Page Intel Collection Efficacy Process
  5. Waving the Constitution at Those Who Ignore It
  6. Security Territory And Population Part 3: Security As The Basis For Governing
  7. Two (Three, Four?) Data Points on DNC Hack: Why Does Wikileaks Need an Insurance File?
  8. Friday: Possibility
  9. Mix and Match Cyber-Priorities Likely Elevates Gut Check To National Level
  10. On Responsible Sourcing for DNC Hack Stories
  11. What Are the DNC Hack(s) Rated on Obama’s New Cyber-Orange Alert System?
  12. Wednesday: Chansons françaises
  13. ISIS’ 4 Terabyte Cache of Un- or Badly Encrypted Data
  14. Tuesday: Tilted
  15. The Other Factor in the DNC Hack: WikiLeaks’ Personal War with Hillary Clinton
  16. Surrogating the 2016 American Presidency
  17. NSA and CIA Hacked Enrique Peña Nieto before the 2012 Election
  18. The Two Intelligence Agency Theory of Handing Trump the Election
  19. Bringing out the Dead: What We Know about Zika Virus Effect on Human Tissue
  20. Friday: The End of the World
  21. 35 Years after Saint Reagan’s Order, Treasury Still Dawdles
  22. Thursday: Hotter than Hell
  23. Wednesday: Heat of Passion
  24. Chris Christie and Karl Rove’s US Attorney Project
  25. Security, Territory and Population Part 2: Initial Discussion of Security
  26. Tuesday: Crazy
  27. Monday: Magic
  28. You, Too, Armenia?
  29. Stuffing Turkey
  30. FBI Established Saudi Task Force Just before Joint Inquiry Release
  31. Tom Brady Taps Out of Deflategate and Other Trash Talk
  32. Friday: Teh Stoopid, Still Burns [UPDATE-2]
  33. Thursday: Bad Girls
  34. Wednesday: Dumb Dumb [UPDATE]
  35. On The Passing of David Margolis, the DOJ Institution
  36. Key Area of Dispute on Drone Numbers: Number of Strikes
  37. Tuesday: Trauma
  38. Security, Territory and Population Part 1: Introduction
  39. Monday: Gotta’ Catch ‘Em All
  40. Index to Posts on The Theory of Business Enterprise by Thorstein Veblen
  41. As Part of Confirmation Process, Loretta Lynch Suggested DOJ Didn’t Have Enough Evidence to Prosecute HSBC
  42. TPP and Democratic Self-Delusion
  43. Friday (somewhere): Why
  44. The Bomb Robot Drone Killing Precedent
  45. Jim Comey, Poker Face, and the Scope of the Clinton Investigation(s)
  46. The CIA Is Preventing Congress from Learning that the Worst Allegations against Hillary Pertain to Drones
  47. Some Legislative Responses to Clinton’s Email Scandal
  48. Principles Of Business Enterprises Part 8: Conclusion
  49. Wednesday: Mend
  50. “Only Facts Matter:” Jim Comey Is Not the Master Bureaucrat of Integrity His PR Sells Him As
  51. Tuesday: Rubbish
  52. Does Jim Comey Think Thomas Drake Exhibited Disloyalty to the United States?
  53. Monday: Happy Incendiary Device Day!
  54. Hillary’s Mode of Governance: Boozy X Chromosomes Making Peace
  55. Friday: Death to All That Jazz
  56. Cyber-Goggles: When China’s Tool Box Looks Like a Pile of Cyber-Hammers
  57. Happy Flag-Waving Drone Document Dump
  58. Shaping Traffic and Spying on Americans

June 2016

  1. The Secrets that Remain about Journalist NSLs
  2. FBI Still Not Counting How Often Encryption Hinders Their Investigations
  3. Thursday: Repetition
  4. House Homeland Security Committee Apparently Knows Little about Homeland Security
  5. Wednesday: Wandering
  6. In 2010, DOJ Was Stalling Gang of Four Member Silvestre Reyes Over (Probably) Common Commercial Services Memo
  7. IARPA’s MOSAIC FitBit for Psych
  8. Hillary’s National Security Alliance for Quivering Over Bank Prosecutions
  9. The Theory of Business Enterprises Part 7: Cultural Changes
  10. Facebook’s Flip-Flop: Is It a Law Enforcement Thing?
  11. Ron Wyden: Obtaining ECTRs without a Warrant Is Almost Like Spying on Someone’s Thoughts
  12. Monday: Fierce Dog
  13. NATO and Brexit
  14. The Jordanian Arms Theft Story
  15. Friday: There’s Always The Second Line
  16. Democracy Has Always Been Post-Factual
  17. Brexit: Unicorn-Sniffing Naifs Deprived of Their Future
  18. There’s No [Easy] Exit
  19. An Economics For The Left
  20. Thursday: Rough Beast
  21. Wednesday: Get Bach
  22. Senate Narrowly Avoids Voting Themselves to Become “Typos”
  23. Key Details about the Mitch McConnell Bid to Expand FBI Surveillance
  24. Discrepancies between Past Versions of Mateen’s Calls and the “Transcript”
  25. Monday: Buckle up, Buttercup
  26. DOJ Thinks Releasing Omar Mateen’s ISIS Allegiance Claims It Released Last Week Will Revictimize the Victims
  27. Other Priorities: Another Launch Today – Blue Origin Reusable Rocket
  28. Since Tuesday the Medical Examiner Has Known How Many Orlando Victims Were Killed by Cops
  29. Friday: How It Begins
  30. Why Doesn’t Dianne Feinstein Want to Prevent Murders Like those Robert Dear Committed?
  31. N. Gregory Mankiw Tries to Discredit Piketty
  32. Why Was Omar Mateen Researching Specific Law Enforcement Offices before His Attack?
  33. Now Can We Ditch the Saudis?
  34. At Same Time as DNC Hack Released, Funny Alleged Hacks in the Middle East
  35. Wednesday: Hills Have Eyes
  36. Why Did FBI’s Multiple Informants Fail to Catch Omar Mateen in a Sting?
  37. John Cornyn Wants to Pass Law Letting FBI Collect Information on Omar Mateen It Already Collected
  38. Tuesday: Going Alone
  39. CIA Lied about Leaking to Screw David Passaro and Protect Bush and Tenet
  40. CIA Finally Declassifies “Gloves Come Off” Memorandum of Notification Reference
  41. What Did FBI Do with Evidence that Mateen Was a Closeted Gay Man?
  42. AQ to CIA: You Are the Empire, and We Are Luke and Han
  43. Monday: Bueller? Bueller?
  44. As FBI Was Rolling Up Ibragim Todashev and Friends in Orlando, Omar Mateen Claimed a Tie
  45. Orlando Pulse Open Thread
  46. Friday: Ball and Chain
  47. How Did Booz Employee Analyst-Trainee Edward Snowden Get the Verizon 215 Order?
  48. The SSCI Contemplates Splitting CyberCommand from DIRNSA
  49. NSA’s Curious Goal-Post Moving on Snowden’s Complaints
  50. Wednesday: Graduate
  51. Why Is the Government Poison-Pilling ECPA Reform?
  52. On Presidential Powers to Destabilize Entire Regions
  53. Lawyer Who Filed Crime Report against SSCI Staffer, Robert Eatinger, Complains about Lack of Trust
  54. Obama’s “Successful” Counterterrorism Approach in Yemen Has Quadrupled Membership in AQAP
  55. The Theory of Business Enterprises Part 6: Government as an Arm of Business
  56. Carrie Cordero’s Counterintelligence Complaints
  57. When Does a Random Taxi Driver Become a Lawful Combatant?
  58. NSA Kills People Based on Metadata, But Can’t Preserve Its Own Personnel Metadata for a Simple FOIA
  59. Hillary Promises Not to Order the Military (!?!) to Torture
  60. Wednesday: Looking Back

May 2016

  1. Treasury’s New So-Called Transparency about Saudi-Held US Debt
  2. The Theory of Business Enterprises Part 5: A Legal System That Supports Businessmen
  3. Tuesday Morning: Family
  4. Monday Morning: Diasporic
  5. Pat Buchanan, Dick Cheney, and American Exceptionalism
  6. Friday Morning (Somewhere, Maybe in Alaska): Rhapsodic
  7. Ben Wittes’ Delusion: FBI IS the Intelligence Community
  8. Less than 10% of Germany’s SIGINT Spying Targets Terrorist
  9. Thursday Morning: Try
  10. Wednesday Morning: Simple Past, Perfect Future
  11. Tuesday Morning (Kind of): Assembly-Required Future
  12. Mullah Mansour Drone Strike: Important Milestone or Radicalizing Event?
  13. Monday Morning: Tarantela [UPDATE]
  14. Testing The Limits on Wealth Inequality
  15. Friday Morning: Mi Ritmo
  16. Thursday Morning, Late: Like a Sucker Punch
  17. Imperialist Robert Kagan Disavows the Bureaucracy of Immense American Presidency He Championed
  18. The Theory of Business Enterprises Part 3: Capital and Credit
  19. Wednesday Morning: Meet Me on the Floor
  20. SEC Says Hackers Like NSA Are Biggest Threat to Global Financial System
  21. For Second Year in a Row, HPSCI Tries to Gut PCLOB
  22. Tuesday Morning: Speed of Love
  23. Minh Quang Pham: FBI Continues Creating Terror Stories Assisted by Unrecorded Interviews
  24. CIA’s Idea of Digital Innovation: Attempt (and Fail) to Buy an Existing News Service
  25. Monday Morning: Falling
  26. CIA Achieves a Whole New Scale of Torture Evidence Destruction
  27. You Can Get Clearance If You Always Believed in the Fourth Amendment, But Not if You’re a Fourth Amendment Convert
  28. Friday Morning: Get Smart
  29. While It Is Reauthorizing FISA Amendments Act, Congress Should Reform Section 704
  30. Thursday Not-Morning: Stupid
  31. Illiberal Hollywood: Unchanged or Worse One Year Later
  32. Wednesday Morning: Wandering
  33. James Clapper’s Latest Effort To Fearmonger about Snowden’s Damage
  34. The US Person Back Door Search Number DOJ Could Publish Immediately
  35. Tuesday Morning: Garbage in, Garbage out [UPDATE]
  36. DOJ Confirms One or More Agencies Acted Consistent with John Yoo’s Crummy Opinion
  37. Monday Morning: Scattered
  38. Long-Serving Intelligence Executive: Sure, Government Has Been Thoroughly Pawned But What about Ordinary Citizens?
  39. Happy Mother’s Day!
  40. The Intelligence Community Casts Its Vote for Hillary Clinton
  41. Friday Morning: Gypsy Caravan
  42. Thursday Morning: Burning Bright
  43. Empirical Test of Piketty’s r > g Theory Coming
  44. Wednesday Morning: Woe, Nelly, Woe
  45. The IC Can’t Even Decide What Is Classified in Hillary’s Emails But They’re Attempting To Do Same on the Internet
  46. Tuesday Morning: Brittle, Two
  47. The Theory of Business Enterprise Part 3: Business Principles
  48. 2015 I Con the Record Transparency™ Working Thread
  49. Monday Morning: Brittle
  50. The (Former) Riyadh Station Chief Defends His Saudi Friends from Charges of Terrorism

April 2016

  1. Recent Discussions of Neoliberalism
  2. Notorious “FOIA Terrorist” Jason Leopold “Saves” FBI Over $300,000
  3. Friday Morning [?!]: Chamber of Delights
  4. Rosemary Collyer’s Worst FISA Decision
  5. The Shell Game the Government Played During Yahoo’s Protect America Act Challenge
  6. Thursday Morning: Mostly Cloudy with a Chance of Trouble
  7. Bob Graham Says FBI Aggressively Deceived on Sarasota 9/11 Investigation
  8. Wednesday Morning: Lüg mich an, Lügner
  9. Domestic Collection and Stellar Wind
  10. Tuesday Morning: Monitor
  11. The Easy Section 702 Surveillance Number James Clapper Can Share
  12. The Theory of Business Enterprise Part 2: Neoclassical Economists and Veblen
  13. Monday Morning: Tectonic Shift
  14. NSA Failed to Fully Inform FISC Even After It Started Fact-Checking Itself
  15. Turns Out Their Reassurances Were Too SWIFT
  16. CyberCommand Turns Its “Cyberbombs” from Assad to ISIS
  17. The NSA Has Never Not Been Violating FISA Since It Moved Stellar Wind to FISA in 2004
  18. DOJ’s Awesome New Trick to Break into Apple Phones
  19. The Government Admits 9 Defendants Spied On Under Section 702 Have Not Gotten FISA Notice
  20. Former Top Holder Aide Says Back Door Searches Violate Fourth Amendment; FISC Judge Thomas Hogan Doesn’t Care
  21. Friday Morning: This Thing Called Life
  22. Thursday Morning: Come on Now [UPDATE]
  23. FBI’s Back Door Searches: Explicit Permission … and Before That
  24. The Theory of Business Enterprise Part 1: Introduction
  25. Last July, NSA and CIA Decided They Didn’t Have to Follow Minimization Procedures, and Judge Hogan Is Cool with That
  26. SS7 and NSA’s Redundant Spying
  27. Wednesday Morning: Water, Water, Everywhere [UPDATE]
  28. Apple’s Spiking National Security Requests Could Reflect USA Freedom Compliance
  29. Tuesday Morning: Trash Day
  30. Wonks and Activists
  31. The Obamacare “Wonks” Are Awfully Selective about Which Taxes and Costs They See
  32. Monday Morning: Calm, You Need It
  33. Are the Economic Pins to the Saudi-US Relationship Still in Place?
  34. The FBI’s Asinine Attempt to Retroactively Justify Cracking Farook’s Phone
  35. The CIA Doesn’t Want You To Know that ISI Supports Terror, But DIA Does
  36. Friday Morning: Dark Water Jazz
  37. Hillary’s Bold Plan to Financially Penalize Recidivist Super-Predators
  38. Thursday Morning: It’s Still Morning Somewhere
  39. FBI Has Been Not Counting Encryption’s Impact on Investigations for Over a Decade
  40. CDC: Zika Virus Confirmed as a Cause of Microcephaly
  41. Who Are The Non-Celebrities In The Panama Papers?
  42. FBI’s Latest Story about the Hack of Farook’s Phone
  43. Wednesday Morning: A Whiter Shade
  44. The 28 Pages
  45. Military Keynsianism, American Exceptionalism, and Trump
  46. Tuesday Morning: Toivo’s Tango
  47. DOJ Places David Barron’s Anwar Awlaki Memos on the “Not Selected for Publication”
  48. CIA Officers Didn’t Carry Out Waterboarding
  49. Monday Morning: The Urge to Merge
  50. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Conclusion
  51. The Obama Administration Almost Doubled Down on Yoo’s Illegality
  52. Friday Morning: Far Over Yonder
  53. Richard Burr’s Encryption (AKA Cuckoo) Bill, Working Thread
  54. Thursday Morning: Eye in the Sky
  55. John Yoo’s Two Justifications for Stellar Wind
  56. Wednesday Morning: Whip It Good
  57. Tuesday Morning: What’s News, Tiwes?
  58. Why Do They Call It Panama Papers, Anyway?
  59. Monday Morning: Welcome to BVI – Have a Tax-Free Day
  60. Weekend Open Thread: You’re Gonna’ Need a Bigger Boat
  61. Friday Morning: Some Place Warm

March 2016

  1. Thursday Morning: Taboo You
  2. Bob Litt Spins Sharing NSA-Collected Comms with DEA and FBI as Harmless
  3. Wednesday Morning: Breaking Spring
  4. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 7: Superfluous People
  5. With Upcoming David Medine Departure, Will PCLOB Slip Back into Meaninglessness?
  6. The StuxNet Team Reunion
  7. Battening Down the Hatches — Stand By
  8. DOJ Claims the Cybersecurity Related OLC Memo Is Also A Stellar Wind Memo
  9. FBI Claimed It Consulted a Manual Rather Than Cellebrite Directly
  10. On the Coming Showdown over Promiscuous Sharing of EO 12333 Data
  11. Thursday Morning: Two Too Good
  12. Did FBI Ask Cellebrite to Open Farook’s Phone before Getting an AWA Order?
  13. On February 16, DOJ Got a Warrant to Open an iPhone 6 Using Cellebrite
  14. Wednesday Morning: Wicked Weary World
  15. How to Protect against Terrorism: Eliminate the Valuable Terrorist Technology, the Nuclear Family
  16. The Problem of the Liberal Elites Part 4 Conclusion
  17. DOJ’s Pre-Ass-Handing Capitulation
  18. Tuesday Morning: Été Frappé
  19. Are the Authorities Confusing a PRISM Problem with an Encryption Problem?
  20. The Blind Spots Brennan Center’s EO 12333 Report
  21. SWIFT and the Bangladeshi Bank Heist
  22. Monday Morning: Synthesized Brain
  23. For Counterterrorism Experts, Absence of Evidence Equals Encryption
  24. The Problem of the Liberal Elites Part 3 on Trade
  25. Coming Soon to Apple vs FBI: Live Witnesses and Dead Terrorists
  26. Friday Morning: F for Free and Favorite
  27. US Secretly Acting Like China Does in Public
  28. #FlintWaterCrisis: I Don’t Think That Report Said What You Think It Said, Gov
  29. Connecting the Dots on the Hillary Emails
  30. Thursday Morning: A Little Green Around The Gills
  31. “Noteworthy” Ron Wyden Interview on Apple vs FBI: Ask NSA, Ask NSA, Ask NSA
  32. The Problem of Liberal Elites Part 2 On Trade
  33. The OPM Hack Is One Big Reason Apple Couldn’t Guarantee Its Ability to Keep FBiOS Safe
  34. Wednesday Morning: Place Your Bets
  35. If Trump’s Protestors Didn’t Exist He Would Have to Invent Them
  36. Tuesday Morning: #FlintWaterCrisis Hearing Today
  37. The Problem of the Liberal Elites Part 1
  38. DOJ’s Clear Threat to Go After Apple’s Source Code
  39. Monday Morning: Feeling Rather Mussorgsky
  40. What Mix of Approaches Should We Use to Keep Cyber Space Safe?
  41. Why Isn’t DOJ Complaining about Apple’s Cooperation with Police States Like South Korea … or the US?
  42. In Exchange about Clinton Email Investigation, Lynch Forcefully Reminds She Is FBI’s Boss
  43. FBI Can’t Have Whistleblower Protection Because It Would Encourage Too Many Complaints
  44. Friday Morning: Lovely
  45. DOJ to Apple: Start Cooperating or You’ll Get the Lavabit Treatment
  46. In Bizarre Move, Dianne Feinstein Attacks Tech Companies for Profiting Off Spying on Their Customers
  47. How Hillary Helped Banks Foreclose on 5 Million Families
  48. Thursday Morning: Things Are Gonna’ Change
  49. Bernie Wins MI — Wait Whut?
  50. Wednesday Morning: In The Morning After
  51. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 6: Totalitarian Propaganda
  52. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Index to All Posts
  53. The Government Spoliationing for a Fight with EFF
  54. On Jim Comey’s Attempts to Force Apple to Change Its Business Model
  55. Tuesday Morning: Some Kind of Freak
  56. Amid an Inconclusive Answer on Encryption, Hillary Reveals She Doesn’t Understand How Metadata Works
  57. How Hillary Turned Her Support for Welfare for Banks into an Auto Bailout Attack
  58. Monday Morning: Put Your Pom-poms Down
  59. There’s More to the SPCMA Document
  60. Hillary Is Now Picking and Choosing Which Obama Accomplishments to Take Credit For
  61. Alberto Gonzales Rejected DHS’ EO 12333 Procedures in 2006
  62. The Return of the Reagan Democrats
  63. Friday Morning: The Political is Musical
  64. Husband of San Bernardino Victim Agrees: Farook’s Phone Unlikely to Yield Useful Information
  65. Mirror Mirror and His Wall
  66. Thursday Morning: Don’t Feel Bad
  67. Wednesday Morning: All the Range from Sublime to Silly
  68. James Orenstein’s Order Sets Up Congressional Hearing
  69. Tuesday Morning: Guidance to Be True

February 2016

  1. That Time When John Yoo Deemed EO 12333 Optional (Working Thread)
  2. Monday Morning: Swivel, Heads
  3. Why Did Apple “Object” to All Pending All Writs Orders on December 9?
  4. Why Isn’t Jim Comey Crusading against This Tool Used to Hide Terrorist Secrets?
  5. Friday Morning: Afro-Cuban Coffee
  6. FBI Waited 50 Days before Asking for Syed Rezwan Farook’s iCloud Data
  7. Working Thread, Apple Response
  8. On December 10, Intelligence Committees Not Told Any Encrypted Communications Used in San Bernardino
  9. What Claims Did the Intelligence Community Make about the Paris Attack to Get the White House to Change on Encryption?
  10. Thursday Morning: Snowed In (Get It?)
  11. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Interlude On the Twilight of Conservative Elite Pundits
  12. Wednesday Morning: If It Ain’t Baseball, It’s Winter
  13. Reuters Asks Even Stupider Questions about Apple-FBI Fight than Pew
  14. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Interlude Defining Elites
  15. Tuesday Morning: Changing the Tenor
  16. Pew Poll Finding Majority Oppose Apple Is Premised on FBI Spin
  17. This Apple Fight Is (Partly) about Solving Car Accidents
  18. Monday Morning: Let’s Mambo
  19. Imagine if Apple Were a Powerless Muslim?
  20. To Clarify the Debate, Tim Cook Should Start Shopping for Land in Cork, Ireland
  21. USDOJ: Make Apple Fix Their ‘Brand Marketing Strategy’ for Our Needs
  22. Friday Morning: All That Jazz
  23. Thursday Morning: Number 49
  24. Snickers Bars and Fudged ISIS Intelligence
  25. Christina Romer’s Evidence Based Economics
  26. Wednesday Morning: Quelle couleur est-ce?
  27. Thomas Piketty On the Democratic Primary
  28. Tuesday Morning: I Don’t Want It Good
  29. The Latest 60 Minutes Propaganda: We Need a Crypto Back Door because ISIS Is “Coming Here” with WMD
  30. The Play on the Scalia Replacement: Remember the Lame Duck
  31. Monday Morning: Fair of Face
  32. Reagan’s Republican Revolution and the Death of the American Dream
  33. El Nino Scalia
  34. Hillary’s Admission Diplomacy Couldn’t Get Pakistan To Hand Over Bin Laden
  35. Flint: The Legionnaires Will Be What Brings Criminal Charges
  36. Friday Morning: It’s Five Somewhere
  37. Biased Pluralism and the Defense of “Reality” in the Democratic Primary
  38. [Work in Progress] Timeline: Flint’s Water Crisis
  39. Thursday: Thunder Much
  40. District Attorneys Use Spying as Cover To Demand a Law Enforcement Back Door
  41. More Evidence Secret “Tweaks” To Section 702 Coming
  42. Wednesday Morning: Ashes to Ashes
  43. The Unnamed Network Provider Exposing our Infrastructure
  44. Tuesday Morning: The Fat One You’ve Awaited
  45. NSA’s Funny Description of the Job that Required a Controversial Reorganization
  46. Monday Morning: Taking out the Garbage
  47. Superb Owl: Keeping Eye on Fans and More?
  48. Hillary’s Flint Gambit
  49. When Your Lived Reality becomes an Algorithm of the Popular
  50. One Reason CIA Is Claiming Drone Emails Are Top Secret: ACLU’s FOIA
  51. Super Bowl 50 Trash Talk
  52. Flint Crisis: Harvey Hollins Not Giving Task Force Information that Implicates Harvey Hollins
  53. Pfizer’s Vision of R&D
  54. On Pluralism, Bernie Sanders, and the Fight for 15
  55. What Would It Take for the Government to Obtain Google’s Counter-Terror Ads Algos?
  56. Friday Morning: Nasty Habits
  57. DEQ Employees Seem Unwilling to Take the Fall for Flint
  58. Data Mining Research Problem Book, Working Thread
  59. Thursday Morning: Better than a Week
  60. The Government’s Classified Briefing to HJC: A New Certificate?
  61. Wednesday Morning: Full of Whoa
  62. Why Is the Postal Inspection Service Investigating the Flint Water Crisis?
  63. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 5: Artistic and Intellectual Elites and the Rise of Fascism
  64. NSA Reorganizing in Manner that Directly Conflicts with President’s Review Group Recommendation
  65. What Secrets Are the Spooks Telling HJC about Section 702?
  66. Tuesday Morning: Don’t Drive Angry
  67. A Whole Lot of Inspector General Scrutiny on Intelligence Community Networks
  68. How the Purpose of the Data Sharing Portal Changed Over the OmniCISA Debate
  69. Monday Morning: Java Junky Jonesing

January 2016

  1. NFL Pro Bowl Trash Talk
  2. The Leak Hypocrisy of the Hillary Shadow Cabinet
  3. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Yahoo Warrant
  4. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Interlude on Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  5. The Virgin Birth of Obama’s Wonk Core
  6. Afghanistan Quagmire Update: Now With Even More Failure
  7. Friday Morning: Know When to Fight
  8. Jim Sensenbrenner Flip-Flops Wildly on Value of Classified Hearings
  9. What We Don’t Know about What Rummy Didn’t Know
  10. Silencing Whistleblowers, 12 Years Later
  11. Thursday Morning: War All The Time
  12. After Lying in a Closed Surveillance Briefing in 2011, Intelligence Community Plans Another Closed Briefing
  13. The FBI’s Two Weeks of Peddling Kiddie Porn and Section 702
  14. Wednesday Morning: Adulting is Hard
  15. Wonks and Trump
  16. Harvey Hollins Is Supposed to Be Leading Flint Response but Snyder Sent Richard Baird Instead
  17. Tuesday Morning: Chasing the Clouds Away
  18. Bill Schuette’s Bogus Excuse for His Belated Investigation into Flint
  19. Mr. President: Trump’s Voters Are Changing Reagan’s Terms of Debate
  20. Monday Morning: Get a Pick and Shovel
  21. NFL Conference Championship Sunday Trash Talk
  22. Governor Snyder: You Were Not Hired to Be Jerry Lewis
  23. The Circumstantial Case for Flint River Water and Hot Water Tanks Leading to Flint’s Legionnaires’ Oubreak
  24. Friday Morning: Thank a Goddess
  25. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 4: Humanity under Totalitarianism
  26. FBI’s Open NSL Requests
  27. Thursday Morning: Trouble, We Haz It
  28. What Agency Is Claiming Hillary Received SAP Emails?
  29. Grim “Reaper” News: US Drones Inexplicably Falling From Sky
  30. Wednesday Morning: Whac-A-Mole
  31. DOJ’s Double Standard on Osama Bin Laden Trophy Photos
  32. Tuesday Morning: Flip Off
  33. Martin Luther King Jr., Subversives, and the PATRIOT Dragnet
  34. Implementation Day Fallout: Neocons Have Nuclear Meltdown Over Prisoner Exchange
  35. Monday Morning: So Good to Me
  36. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Cards from Arizona
  37. Implementation Day: Full Description From JCPOA Text
  38. FISC Still Sitting on Government Proposal for EFF Data
  39. NSA Privacy Officer Rebecca Richards Explains What Connection Chaining Is!
  40. Friday Morning: Damned Long Week Done
  41. The Intelligence Community Continues to Pretend Ignorance of Its Deliberate 702 Spying
  42. AT&T Says Its Voluntary Sharing of Customer Data Is Classified
  43. Thursday Morning: Fast and Furious Edition
  44. Wednesday Morning: Wonderful, Just Wonderful
  45. The FBI Is Using NSLs to Target “Facilities” Now
  46. Will James Clapper Be the First Known Victim of OmniCISA’s Regulatory Immunity?
  47. The Chapo Secrets the Press Should Be Squealing About
  48. Tuesday Morning: The Week’s Peak Crey
  49. As Recently as 2012, FBI Didn’t Think Your Phone Number Was Your Identity
  50. Ukraine’s Power System Hacking: Coordinated in More than One Way?
  51. Monday Morning: So — We Meet Again
  52. Sean Penn, Intelligence Dangle
  53. Wild Divisional Card Trash Talk
  54. NOT Trash Talk: Watch This Space
  55. In Response to Continued Resonance of Awlaki Videos, US Relaunched Social Media Propaganda Campaign
  56. Friday Morning: Looks Like We Made It!
  57. What We Know about the Section 215 Phone Dragnet and Location Data
  58. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Interlude on The Commons
  59. The Three Kinds of Dragnet Searches NSA Did When Only Doing Contact Chaining
  60. Thursday Morning: Chinese Fortune Not Looking Good
  61. Wednesday Morning: Otherwise Known as Mike-Mike-Mike Day
  62. The 18-Minute Gap
  63. Tuesday Morning: Wow, You Survived Business Day 1
  64. Power Imbalances in Ukraine
  65. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 3: Superfluous Capital and Superfluous People
  66. Monday Morning: First, Same as the Last
  67. Why Is Congress Undercutting PCLOB?

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December 2015

  1. Repurposed Auld Lang Syne – Now NFL – Trash Talk
  2. Why Tell the Israeli Spying Story Now?
  3. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Interlude on the Tea Party
  4. James Clapper’s Twisted Definition of an Insider Threat
  5. Legal Analysis of OmniCISA Reinforces Cause for Concern
  6. The Heroic IRS Agent Story Should Raise More Questions about Silk Road Investigation
  7. Interstitial Trash Talk
  8. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 2: Antisemitism
  9. Christmas At The Wheelhouse, And A Giving Of Thanks
  10. If a Close US Ally Backdoored Juniper, Would NSA Tell Congress?
  11. The Origins of Totalitarianism Part 1: Introduction
  12. Vacation Sucky Blogging Schedule
  13. Real Housewives Trash Talk
  14. The San Bernardino Complaint
  15. So-Called Oversight in OmniCISA
  16. Richard Burr Just Told ISIS USAF Phone Program Gets Internet Phone Data
  17. Working Thread, Cybersecurity Act
  18. On Intent, Mental Health, and Terrorism
  19. What a Social Media Check for Visas Would Require
  20. NSA Propagandist John Schindler Suggests Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack Not “Major Jihadist Attack”
  21. Marco Rubio Explains the Dragnet
  22. Marco Rubio Leaks Classified Information for Political Gain Again
  23. The Great Transformation Part 9: The Rise of Fascism and Conclusion
  24. Fat Al Gore’s Sunday NFL Trash Talk
  25. Obama’s Terrorism Cancer Speech, Carter’s Malaise Speech
  26. “Encryption” Is Just Intel Code for “Failure to Achieve Omniscience”
  27. “Is Our Congressmens Learning?
  28. Jim Comey Makes Bogus Claims about Privacy Impact of Electronic Communications Trasaction Record Requests
  29. The Great Transformation Part 8: Money as a Fictitious Commodity
  30. Dianne Feinstein’s Encrypted Playstation Nightmare
  31. To Hide Why Its State Secrets Invocation Is Bogus, Government Declares Public Information Top Secret
  32. Marco Rubio Leaks that the Phone Dragnet Has Expanded to “A Large Number of Companies”
  33. In One of His First Major Legislative Acts, Paul Ryan Trying to Deputize Comcast to Narc You Out to the Feds
  34. Internet of Things: Now, with ‘Breachable’ Kids Connect and ‘Hackable’ Barbie
  35. The Businessman’s Briefcase of ISIS Propaganda
  36. Why the AP’s Call Record Article Is So Stupid
  37. Yes, Calling Only Muslims Terrorists Does Result in Disparate Treatment of Muslims
  38. Correlations on Facebook Probably Key to ISIS Claim in San Bernardino
  39. Ten Billion: A Kick in the Ass We’ve Needed
  40. The Emptywheel…It’s Now Sunday!…Football Rumble
  41. How FISC Amicus Preston Burton Helped Michael Mosman Shore up FISC’s Authority
  42. The Great Transformation Part 7: Land as a Fictitious Commodity
  43. Shorter Devin Nunes: There Are Privacy-Violating Covert Counter-Terrorism Programs We’re Hiding
  44. Interesting Tidbits from the House Intelligence Authorization
  45. IRS’ Stingray Tracked 44 Cell Devices Over 4 Years But the Agency Needs Another
  46. Eli Lake Defends the “Rectal Feeding” Consensus in DC

November 2015

  1. FBI Redacted Passages Showing Judge Mocking Its Stupid Claims
  2. FBI Asks for at Least Eight Correlations with a Single NSL
  3. Another Probable Reason to Shut Down the Internet Dragnet: Dissemination Restrictions
  4. The Costs of Equal Opportunity in a Neoliberal Economy
  5. The Government Wants You To Forget It Will Still Collect Your Phone Records in Bulk
  6. NYT Should Explain How It Selects Which Articles Get Translated into Mandarin
  7. Turkey, Geezers, Favre and Trash Talk
  8. Thanksgiving Blessings
  9. New Problems with DOD’s Médecins Sans Frontières Story
  10. FISC Makes Far Better Amicus Choices Than I Expected
  11. Both Iran and the US Have Their Scary Monsters
  12. Obama Administration Changed the Rationale for Why Assassinations Don’t Violate the Assassination Prohibition
  13. Guy Who Worked at White House When It Self-Authorized Dragnet Thinks Dragnets Are Cool
  14. An Important Battlefield after Paris: US Counterterrorism Hegemony
  15. The Internet Dragnet Was a Clusterfuck … and NSA Didn’t Care
  16. 2011 Internet Dragnet Audit Didn’t Find Significant Violation Reported to IOB
  17. Big Game Trash Talk
  18. The NSA (Said It) Ate Its Illegal Domestic Content Homework before Having to Turn It in to John Bates
  19. 10 Goodies USA Freedom Act Gives the Intelligence Community
  20. The Reasons to Shut Down the (Domestic) Internet Dragnet: Purpose and Dissemination Limits, Correlations, and Functionality
  21. Dianne Feinstein Inadvertently Calls to Expose America’s Critical Infrastructure to Hackers
  22. How the Government Uses Location Data from Mobile Apps
  23. Brennan Was Probably Talking about the Telegram PRISM Gap as Much as Encryption
  24. Why Does Saudi Arabia Want to Arrest One of Its Princes?
  25. The Great Transformation Part 6: Labor as a Fictitious Commodity
  26. Sally Yates Doth Protest Too Much
  27. Author of Story Based on Leaks about Surveillance Parrots Brennan Condemning Leaks about Surveillance
  28. DOJ Still Gets a Failing Grade on Strong Authentication
  29. Surveillance Hawk Stewart Baker Confirms Dragnet Didn’t Work as Designed
  30. Je Suis Paris Trash Talk
  31. It’s Harder for FBI to Get Location Data from Phone Companies Under FISA than Other Ways
  32. Weeks after Missing Claimed Russian Bomb Plot, US and UK Take Out Jihadi John
  33. The Proliferation-as-Terrorism Rule
  34. Government (and Its Expensive Contractors) Really Need to Secure Their Data Collections
  35. How to Make Peaceful Protestors of America’s Torture School Look Like Terrorists
  36. Another War Crime Because We Relied on Unreliable Allies
  37. On the Leak Crackdown: Donald Sachtleben Was a Convenient Scapegoat
  38. Kansas to Execute White Supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller
  39. The Great Transformation Part 5: Polanyi on Marxian Analysis
  40. The Government’s Bad Faith Arguments Demanding a Dragnet Stay
  41. Government Still Hasn’t Cleared One of Jeffrey Sterling’s Appellate Lawyers
  42. Richard Leon Halts the Dragnet for One Plaintiff
  43. Defining Stingray Emergencies … or Not
  44. Daylight Saving Time Trash Talk
  45. Confirmed: Intelligence Community Claimed Credit and Top Secret Status for Open Source Intelligence
  46. Comey Sending Out His Allies as Ferguson Effect Truthers
  47. Response to Snooper’s Charter: URL Searches Are Broadly Available in the US
  48. It’s Not Just the FISA Court, It’s the Game of Surveillance Whack-a-Mole
  49. Kiddie Porn, Computer and Building Destruction, and Section 702
  50. Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz Treated 2 Higher Ranking Taliban before Attack
  51. The FISA Court’s Uncelebrated Good Points
  52. Signs of Confusion in the Middle East
  53. The Second Circuit Attempts to Reassert Its Non-Definition of Relevant

October 2015

  1. Spooky Trash Talk
  2. Who Was Actually Doing “FBI’s” Aerial Surveillance of Black Lives Matter in Baltimore?
  3. As One of First Acts as Speaker, Paul Ryan Retains Devin Nunes on HPSCI
  4. The Awkward Timing of the 2nd Circuit Denial of ACLU’s Request for a Phone Dragnet Injunction
  5. Obama Bypassed OLC on Bin Laden Killing
  6. Could Corporations Include CISA Non-Participation in Transparency Reports? Would It Even Mean Anything?
  7. CISA Overwhelmingly Passes, 74-21
  8. Richard Burr Wants to Prevent Congress from Learning if CISA Is a Domestic Spying Bill
  9. Anonymous Former Intel Official Confirms: CISA Is about Bypassing NSA Minimization on Upstream Collection
  10. Two Intended Consequences CISA Supporters Will Be Responsible For
  11. The IRS Has Stingrays … But We Knew Stingrays Have Been Used to Chase Tax Fraud
  12. The Great Transformation Part 4: Reaction and Counter-Reaction To Self-Regulating Markets
  13. Does the NYT Publish “All the News That’s Fit to Print” Anymore?
  14. Football and F1 Trash Talk
  15. Jim Comey Describes the Dangerous Chilling Effect of Surveillance (But Only for Cops)
  16. Is CISA the Upstream Cyber Certificate NSA Wanted But Didn’t Really Get?
  17. The Administration Statement on CISA
  18. CISA Update: Cloture Passed, Masters of the Universe and Sheldon Whitehouse Agree on Compromise
  19. Hacking John Brennan, Hacking OPM
  20. The Pro-Scrub Language Added to CISA Is Designed to Eliminate DHS’ Scrub
  21. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Horrible CFAA Amendment Gets Pulled — But Will Be Back in Conference
  22. CISA Moves: A Summary
  23. The Great Transformation Part 3: Neoliberalism Before It Got Its New Name
  24. Fred Upton’s Bid at Protecting Automotive Security Negligence [Updated]
  25. CloudStrike’s Own Announcement Makes It Clear It Doesn’t Have Proof of Ongoing Chinese Economic Cyberattacks
  26. The Financial Services Roundtable Wants to Terrify You into Giving Them More Immunity
  27. Down The Line Trash
  28. The Wayne Simmons Operation
  29. While They’re Replacing John Boehner, the GOP Should Replace Devin Nunes, Too
  30. The Tech Industry Worries CISA Will Allow Other Companies to Damage Their Infrastructure
  31. FBI Caught Their ISIS Hacker by Tracking His Signed Email to His Signed Facebook and Twitter Accounts
  32. Obama’s Extends Forever War in Afghanistan before MSF Report Comes Out
  33. The Great Transformation Part 2: More on Markets
  34. Time to Get VERY Concerned about CISA Gutting Governmental Leverage on Corporations over Cyber
  35. James Orenstein Calls Out Jim Comey on His Prevarications about Democracy
  36. America’s Failed Quagmire
  37. Pure Michigan Trash Talk
  38. Michael Mosman’s Deadlines Raise (More) Questions about the FISC Advocate
  39. If Ending DOD’s Train and Assist Program Is about Returning to Covert Status, Will Congress Get Details?
  40. On Same Day Cabinet Decided to Punt on Back Doors, Tim Cook Said NSA Would Stop Asking for Them
  41. Obama’s Apology Fails to Convince Médecins Sans Frontières DOD’s Investigation Is Adequate
  42. The Two Strands of (Non) Accountability on Kunduz
  43. The Great Transformation Part 1: The Market
  44. General Campbell Not a Fan of an Independent Investigation into MSF Strike [Updated]
  45. The Roger Goodell Fraud and Stupidity in Seattle’s End Zones
  46. Afghan Forces Asked US Special Forces on the Ground in Kunduz To Call In Strike on Médecins Sans Frontières
  47. Loretta Lynch’s Hot and Cold Running Data-Sharing
  48. Did Sheriff Hanlin Know of Christopher Harper Mercer before His Massacre?
  49. Is Russia Eliminating America’s Material Support for Terrorism Problem
  50. Hurricane Trash
  51. Saudis and Americans Disagree Over Whether US Is Involved in Targeting in Yemen
  52. The Great Transformation: Mainstream Economics and an Introduction to a New Series
  53. Days after Bombing a Wedding Party and Squelching UN Investigation in Yemen, Saudi Arabia Worries about Civilian Casualties
  54. In His Latest “Eat the Journalists for Lunch” Lunch, Jim Comey Flirts with Ferguson Effect
  55. With One Bombing Run Russia Gets the US to Acknowledge CIA’s “Covert” Regime Change Forces
  56. Compare Hillary’s 5 Phishing Emails with DOD’s 602 Million Spam and Phishing Emails a Month

September 2015

  1. Apple’s Transparency Numbers Suggest Claims of Going Dark Overblown
  2. TSA Security Still Not Secure But Maybe We Can Keep Our Shoes on Soon
  3. Someone Tell Bill Nelson Apple Isn’t a Telecom and that Metadata Is Available with Encryption
  4. Preston Burton Was Not Necessarily Appointed to Represent Privacy Interests; Was He Appointed to Undercut EFF?
  5. How Did Two CISA Beneficiaries and Numerous Agnostics Come to Support CISA?
  6. Green Bay TitleTown MNF Fall Is Here Trash Talk (NFL Week 3)
  7. Command in Middle of Intelligence Scandal Admits It Can’t Vet a Twitter Picture
  8. Timeline: Is Volkswagen’s ‘Bug’ an EU Feature? [UPDATED]
  9. Obama and Xi Set Up a Red CyberPhone
  10. Raising Pat Kane and Lawyers Selling Out Clients
  11. Q: Whose Secrets Are More Sensitive than the DC Madam’s? A: NSA’s.
  12. Pope Francis Nails the Rhetoric of Addressing Congress
  13. The Real Story Behind 2014 Indictment of Chinese Hackers: Ben Rhodes Moves the IP Theft Goal Posts
  14. Delusional DOJ Claims Documents Declassified, Released Under FOIA Not Declassified, Not Authentic
  15. BREAKING: OPM and DOD (Claim They) Don’t Think Fingerprint Databases Are All That Useful
  16. “It’s Good to Be Back,” Petraeus Says before He Offers a Vague Apology and Oil Market Advice
  17. What Is the Point of the SEC ECPA-Reform Power Grab?
  18. Did the OPM Hack Fix Jack Goldsmith’s Anonymity Problem?
  19. What’s So Tricky about DOD’s PKI That It Needs to Expose Thousands of Service Members?
  20. The New Stellar Wind Language
  21. So There Was ONE Cultural Difference the Military Recognized in Afghanistan
  22. Killer Football Is Trashing Its Real Capital
  23. The Costs of Politically Free Cybersecurity Failures
  24. Revisiting David Petraeus’ Crack Plan to Ally with Al Qaeda
  25. Jeb’s Cyber-Corporate-Welfare-as-Security Program
  26. Will September 16, 2015 Mark the Beginning of the End of the War on Drugs
  27. A Really Interestingly Timed Corruption Extradition
  28. DOJ Threatens to Invoke State Secrets Over Something Released in FOIA
  29. National Counterintelligence Director Evanina about OPM Breach: “Not My Job”
  30. Another Reason GM May Have Come Around to CISA
  31. While We’re Investigating Intelligence Failures on Syria…
  32. The Special Sanger Cyber Unicorn: Iran Warmonger Edition
  33. Cyber-Unicorn Journalists Shocked the Unicorn Didn’t Appear, Again
  34. John Doe Ungagged: Nicholas Merrill Wins the Right to Reveal Contents of 11-Year Old National Security Letter
  35. What If the Intelligence Community Is Looking for the Wrong Malicious Use of OPM Data?
  36. Real Football Is Here Again, Rock The Wheelhouse!
  37. Jahn’s AP Report Was Wrong. Was He Manipulated or Did He Intend to Mislead?
  38. Why Is Devin Nunes Rushing to Give More Data to Hack-Tastic Department of Energy?
  39. Never Forget … that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Has Not Faced Justice Yet
  40. Beyond Deflategate: The NFL Season Begins
  41. Has bmaz Really Not Started Work on Trash Talk Yet? Oh No I Didn’t Want To Have To Do This…
  42. Transcribing James Clapper
  43. Admiral Mike Rogers Virtually Confirms OPM Was Not on Counterintelligence Radar
  44. Brookings Expert Michael O’Hanlon Thinks We’ve Won Our Recent Wars
  45. The SpyGate to DeflateGate Story Is an Illogical Tale
  46. Stingrays and Public Safety Operations
  47. David Cameron Proudly Announces He Drone Kills Too
  48. Even Millionaire Workers Like Tom Brady Need Solidarity
  49. Former Car Czar Steve Rattner Remains an Idiot about Cars
  50. King Salman Doubles Down on the Aircraft Carrier Cruiser
  51. Did FBI Use Katrina as an Excuse for DIY Location Collection?
  52. More Details on the Tres Marias Ambush
  53. The Continued Belief in Unicorn Cyber Deterrence
  54. Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics Part 11: Conclusions
  55. The Loopholes in DOJ’s New Stingray Policy
  56. The Deflategate Decision: Brady Has Been Freed!
  57. AIPAC and Bibi: The Reckoning
  58. The Lessons NSA Teaches When It Conflates Use of Encryption with Terrorism
  59. Even Tom Friedman…
  60. In Historic Settlement, CA Dramatically Changes Its Solitary Confinement Practices
  61. David Petraeus, Whose Greatest Aptitude Lies in Rewriting History

August 2015

  1. John Yoo’s Assistance in Starting Iraq War Might Help Obama Avoid an Iran War
  2. Did China and Russia Really Need Our Help Targeting Spook Techies?
  3. Under What Jurisdiction Did DHS Send Out an Army of Agents Against RentBoy?
  4. ESPN Is Gutless, Chris Mortenson Has Tiny Deflated Balls and Other Deflategate Trash Talk
  5. Government Recently Released Information Proving Larry Klayman Has Standing
  6. DC Circuit Reverses Judge Leon Order Overturning Phone Dragnet
  7. Mankiw’s Tenth Principle: Society Faces A Short-Run Trade-off Between Inflation and Unemployment
  8. From George Zimmerman to Dylann Roof to Bryce Williams
  9. Chuck Schumer Got Results!
  10. Why Did the Feds Take Down RentBoy?
  11. Blumenthal, Booker Point to Unsuccessful Attack for Call for TSA in Trains
  12. Under CISA, Would Wyndham Be Able To Pre-empt FTC Action?
  13. Dick Cheney Prepares to Fearmonger Again on Aluminum Tube Day
  14. How Does Duty to Warn Extend to Cyberattacks?
  15. The Questions the NCSC Doesn’t Want to Answer
  16. Washington Shocked! Shocked That AP’s George Jahn Is a Tool for Iran Deal Opponents
  17. What’s the Difference Between Saudi Arabia and ISIS?
  18. The Rise of the Counter-Drone Industry
  19. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 9: Prices Rise When the Government Prints Too Much Money
  20. Predictably, GOP Candidates Have Started Calling for Drone Strikes against Immigrants
  21. Is the US Thwarting China’s Anti-Corruption (and Political Crime) Campaign to Retaliate for the OPM Hack?
  22. Air Travel, Disrupted: Welcome to the New Normal
  23. Throwing Umm Sayyaf to the Kurds
  24. The Alleged Death Ray Klan Terrorist
  25. Tim Pawlenty Makes It Clear Banks Want Immunity for Negligence
  26. How Would Microsoft’s User Agreement Work with CISA?
  27. The [Emails Sent to] Clinton Story May End Up Being about Loyalty
  28. What’s a Little (or a Lot) Cooperation Among Spies?
  29. AT&T Pulled Cell Location for Its “Mobility Cell Data”
  30. Along with Outdated Toothpaste and Caitlin Jenner Covers, Manning in Trouble for Reading Torture Report
  31. The SEKRIT Drones in Hillary’s [Staffers’] Emails
  32. On the Apple Back Door Rumors … Remember Lavabit
  33. BREAKING: What emptywheel Reported Two Years Ago
  34. Was the White House Involved in the Decision to Unapologize to Dianne Feinstein?
  35. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 8: A Country’s Standard of Living Depends on Its Ability to Produce Goods and Services
  36. Can (Should?) DHS Stave Off CISA?
  37. This Surveillance Bill Brought to You by the US Chamber of Commerce — To Stave Off Something More Effective
  38. Cy Vance Calls It In Dumbly on Smart Phones
  39. Gang of Transnational Crime Organizations Roll Out Own Encrypted Communication System
  40. FBI Brags about Solving Not-Terrorist Not-Hacker Attack on the Grid
  41. John Brennan Admits to Lying about Working with Human Rights Abusers
  42. Several Supporters of CISA Admit Its Inadequacy
  43. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 7: Governments Can Sometimes Improve Market Outcomes
  44. Buffalo’s ISIS Supporting Terrorist and Its Klan Supporting Terrorist
  45. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 6: Markets Are Usually A Good Way to Organize Economic Activity
  46. Jeb Bush’s Service on Bloomberg Foundation Disappears into the Memory Hole [Updated: and Reappears!]
  47. Christie Lied about 9/11 to Try to Shut Down Paul’s Opposition to Dragnet Spying [Updated]
  48. Tesla Patches Faster than Chrysler … and than Android [UPDATED]
  49. On Hiroshima Anniversary, Iran Deal Opponents Make One More Push Based on Parchin Photos
  50. FBI’s 5-Year Effort to Avoid Inspector General Scrutiny of Its Phone Dragnet Use
  51. FBI Flies Its Now-Exposed Spy Plane over America’s Biggest Arab-American City
  52. GM Supports Obtaining Cybersecurity Immunity Just after Hack Vulnerability Revealed
  53. Neoliberalism Helped Syrian Banks Evade Sanctions
  54. The US Chamber of Commerce Is Pre-Clearing What It Is Willing to Do for Our National Security on CISA
  55. Consider CISA a Six-Month Distraction from Shoring Up Government Security
  56. The Inspectors General Bring Out the Space Heroes to Defend Full Access
  57. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 5: Trade Can Make Everyone Better Off
  58. The Things Our Allies Tell Us — Or Don’t
  59. In NYT’s Fictional Presentation, China Pioneered the “Collect It All” Strategy
  60. Department of Energy: CyberSprinting Backwards

July 2015

  1. How About “Any Time, Anywhere” Inspections for Israel’s Nuclear Weapons?
  2. We Were Calling Out the Pakistanis on a Lot of Secrets in Early 2011
  3. FDL: Looking At Things As They Were; Dreaming Of Things That Never Would Be
  4. Black Lives Matter
  5. How CISA Might Hurt FBI’s Ability to Fight Cyberattacks
  6. Is the Intelligence Community Inspector General Trying to Give Contractors Whistleblower Protections?
  7. Did the Former Deputy Director of CTC Misinform Congress about Torture Report Costs?
  8. Evan Kohlmann: Garbage In, Garbage Out
  9. After Targeting OPM, Hackers Moved onto United?
  10. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 4: People Respond to Incentives
  11. Jim Comey Finally Has a Dastardly Criminal Who Made His Texts Unavailable
  12. Under CISA, Data Would Automatically Get Shared with Agencies with Worse Cyberpreparedness than OPM
  13. In Support of Ben Wittes
  14. I Con the Record: Drop the Lawsuits and We’ll Release the Data Hostages
  15. Our Definitions of National Security Crimes Are Fucked
  16. Michael Chertoff Makes the Case against Back Doors
  17. Was Chrysler’s Vehicle Hacking Risk an SEC Disclosure Reportable Event?
  18. John Carlin Complains that ISIL Is Targeting Same Youth FBI Long Has Been
  19. In Political Press, Hillary Clinton Gets Subjected to the Thomas Drake and Jeffrey Sterling Standard
  20. OLC Undermines DOJ Inspector General Independence
  21. The Bullshit Excuses for Not Retaliating for OPM
  22. DEA’s One Minute Confidential Source Vetting Process
  23. Why Apple Should Pay Particular Attention to Wired’s New Car Hacking Story
  24. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 3: Rational People Think At The Margin
  25. WikiLeaks Reveals Steinmeier Intercepts, 2 Years before Helping Condi Look Unconcerned by Kidnapping Liabilities
  26. The Bipartisan Push for Internment Camps
  27. O’Malley’s Explanation for White Lives Matter
  28. Remember Yemen?
  29. European Neoliberals Crushed the Leftist Party in Greece
  30. HUD Digs an Escape Tunnel for Jamie Dimon
  31. Beware the FISCR Fast-Track
  32. Iran, P5+1 Reach Historic Final Agreement, Frustrating Opponents Who Push for War
  33. Mankiw’s Principles of Economics Part 2: The Cost of Something Is What You Give Up To Get It
  34. A Tale of Two Gun Possessions: Dylann Roof and Alexander Ciccolo
  35. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Hot and Cold Corporate Cybersecurity Liability
  36. Chapo Escapes
  37. Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics 1: People Face Trade-offs
  38. Have Comey’s Double Secret Independence Day Arrestees Been Denied Presentment?
  39. Three Congressional Responses to the OPM Hack
  40. Richard Burr’s Backdoor Data Retention Amendment
  41. Feinstein Wants to Introduce Reporting Mandate Jim Comey Says We Don’t Need
  42. “Technical Difficulties”: United Airlines Grounded, NYSE Halted, What’s Next?
  43. T-Mobile’s Transparency: “Other,” and Granularity to Come on National Security Reports
  44. The Dangers of Crying Wolf
  45. Euros, Dollars and Morals
  46. Jim Comey May Not Be a Maniac, But He Has a Poor Understanding of Evidence
  47. Did NSA Add a New Dragnet Provider with Its Latest Order?
  48. To Talk of Many Things: Of Vandals, and Cuts, and Cables, and Pings
  49. Revolutionary Changes in Economics
  50. NSA Gets Full Take on FISA-Authorized Web Forums
  51. XKeyscore Suffers from Same Giant Oversight Loophole as Phone Dragnet and SIGDEV: No Tech Audits
  52. A Tale of Celebrity Bon Vivant Civil Servants and Access Journalism
  53. CryptoWars, the Obfuscation
  54. FBI’s 26-Day Old OPM FLASH Notice
  55. Once Again Sammy Alito’s Speculative Chain of Possibilities Proves True

June 2015

  1. In Reauthorizing the Dragnet, FISC Makes a Mockery of the Amicus Provision
  2. In Course Pitch, Scooter and Wolfie Admit Iraq War Failures, But Make No Mention of Iraqi Casualties
  3. Floating Security
  4. Amid Even More Training Failures, US Frames Syrian Effort as Just Starting. Again.
  5. Kuhn and Economics: A Summary
  6. Criminal Sexual Assault: No Means NO Burden Shifting
  7. Sony Pictures Postmortem Reveals Death by Stupid
  8. Beautiful Equality Comes To Marriages In America
  9. I Am Ted Williams’ Head
  10. Paradigm Change Through Authority and Arguments about Truth
  11. The Coming Trump Legacy On Immigration
  12. A Big Day at SCOTUS on Obamacare and Fair Housing
  13. Angry White Male Terror in US More Deadly Than Jihad Since 9/11
  14. Keynes on Paradigm Change
  15. Info Security Firms and Their Antivirus Software Monitored (Hacked?) by NSA, GCHQ
  16. Illiberal Hollywood: It’s 1984 — Or Is It 1964? Can’t Tell from EEOC’s Inaction
  17. Pragmatic Aspects of Paradigm Change According to Kuhn
  18. Summer Sports: What’s Good This Weekend?
  19. A Possible Paradigm of Neoliberal Economics
  20. Illiberal Hollywood: What’s the Point of a Union if It Doesn’t Represent Members?
  21. The Curious Case of Stuxnet and North Korea: Why the News-Dumped Confession?
  22. No, There Is No Relative Human Value Status In Tragic Shootings
  23. Paradigm Change in Science and Economics
  24. Vaporous Voids: Questions Remain About Duqu 2.0 Malware
  25. Paradigms in Economics
  26. DOJ Is Back On The Baseball Beat; Is Their Past Prologue?
  27. The Two Prongs of the Neoliberal Project
  28. emptywheel Takes a Vacation!
  29. Amazon’s Transparency Report: “Certain Purchase History”
  30. The Appropriations Battle over Funding “Moderate” Terrorists
  31. NYT Buries the Ineffective CyberSecurity Lede
  32. Big Data: An Alternate Reason for Hacks Past and Future?
  33. DOJ IG: FBI’s Secret Applications of PRTT Are Even More Secret than Its Secret Applications of Section 215
  34. The Timing of the Contemplated Upstream Cyber-Grab
  35. Cyber-spawn Duqu 2.0: Was Malware Infection ‘Patient Zero’ Mapped?
  36. Because Government Employees Have Been Spied On, Richard Burr Wants All of Us To Be
  37. Is John Brennan Confessing His (Petraeus’) Covert Ops in Syria Backfired?
  38. DOJ Doesn’t Care What the Text of the Law or the 2nd Circuit Says, Dragnet Edition
  39. In Advance of FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization, DOJ Did Not Tell Congress about Cyber Signature Collection
  40. NSA Reported a Section 702 Upstream Overcollection Incident in 2012
  41. FreedomWorks Challenges the Transitional Dragnet
  42. Why Is the Aramco Hack Considered a Significant NSA Milestone?
  43. Bulk Collection Is All Fun and Games Until Office of Personnel Management Gets Hacked
  44. Congressional Priorities for Defense Intelligence Agency: Take More Money, Discredit Snowden
  45. In October 2013, Patrick Leahy and Jim Sensenbrenner Rolled Out a Bill That Would Have Ended Upstream Cyber Collection
  46. Section 702 Used for Cybersecurity: You Read It Here First
  47. On Carrots, Sticks, and Rand Paul
  48. Did FBI Stall an IG Review of Innocent Americans Sucked Up in the Dragnet?
  49. FBI Successfully Runs Out the Clock on DOJ’s Inspector General Review of Use of Phone Metadata
  50. The FISC Purportedly Continues to Have Problems with “Relevant” and “All”
  51. ACLU’s Poker Face
  52. Mitch McConnell Just Made the Country Less Safe in Bid to Ensure FISC Continues to Be Rubber Stamp
  53. Help Me U of M, You’re Our Only Hope, Softball Trash Talk

May 2015

  1. FBI Doesn’t Want You To Know It Uses NSLs to “Correlate” All the Identities You Use Online
  2. Lessons From The FCIC Final Report In FHFA v. Nomura
  3. Richard Burr Wants to Label People Who Make Threats and Carry Guns “Terrorists”
  4. Administration Feeds Journalists Hints of More Secret Law … Journalists Instead Parrot “Russian Roulette” Line
  5. DOJ IG Issues Yet Another Classified Report that Should Be Public Before Congress Votes on PATRIOT Act
  6. Behold, BR 15-24, the Longest-Serving Phone Dragnet Order Ever
  7. US Extended Its Special Relations with the Saudis another Decade
  8. Intelligence Committees Still Trying to Force Agencies to Follow Reagan’s Rules
  9. A Brief History of the PATRIOT Reauthorization Debate
  10. Feinstein Enters the Non-Compromise Compromise Fray (Working Thread)
  11. Why Does Richard Burr Think It Will Take Four Times Longer To Set Up a Metadata Compliance System than a Content One?
  12. Devin Nunes Will Let Dragnet Lapse So Mitch McConnell Can Save Face?!?!
  13. I’m Shocked, Shocked, to Find that Lying Is Going on in the Senate
  14. Mitch McConnell Suggests He Wants a Bulk Document Collection System
  15. Mitch McConnell and Richard Burr’s Authoritarian Power Grab Fails
  16. Working Thread Burr’s 11 Bullet Points
  17. The Section 215 Rap Sheet
  18. Comey’s Emphasis on Expiring PATRIOT Provisions: Other 215 Uses and Roving Wiretaps
  19. Finally! That Person Who Claims Section 215 Involves Interception of Communications!
  20. 1,800 Day Old DOJ IG Report Working Thread: “Gigabytes of Metadata and Other Electronic Information”
  21. DOJ IG Report Confirms Government Flouted Statutory Requirements of Section 215 for 7 Years
  22. The Paul Filibuster
  23. Will Gary Peters Help Mitch McConnell Expand Illegal Surveillance?
  24. Mitch McConnell Prepares to Reject a 6-Month Window to Set Up Dragnet Replacement
  25. GOP Brought in Guy Who Authorized Dragnet to Talk Dragnets
  26. USA F-ReDux Is Non-Exclusive, but the Second Circuit Might Be
  27. Fifty Shades of Fake University Degrees
  28. Michael Hayden’s Masturbatory Claims of Dragnet Efficacy
  29. Mike Morell’s Performance of “Intelligence”
  30. About those Brennan Lies about Working with Iran and Those Who Commit Atrocities
  31. Joel Brenner Reveals David Addington’s Sources and Methods
  32. How the Second Circuit, FISC, and the Telecoms Might Respond to McConnell’s USA F-ReDux Gambit
  33. Some Thoughts on USA F-ReDux
  34. USA F-ReDux: The Risks Ahead
  35. Did the Government Comply with FISC Requirement of Notice on Appellate Decision
  36. Did the Second Circuit Decision ALSO Blow Up SPCMA?
  37. HJC USA F-ReDux Report: Other Thoughts
  38. HJC’s USA F-ReDux Report Narrows Language on Call Detail Records
  39. Will Ben Wittes Pre-Prove Ben Wittes is NAKED?
  40. USA F-ReDux: Dianne Feinstein Raises the Data Handshake Again
  41. In 2003, OLC Doubled Down on Unlimited (de)Classification Authority for the President
  42. Wyden et al: Spot the Lie in Brennan’s CFR Speech Contest!
  43. How the NSA Connection Chains without Calls
  44. The Problem with Unidentified Drone Victims: NSA Never Learns Who the Journalists Were
  45. Richard Burr’s IP Dragnet Disappears into the Memory Hole
  46. Edward Snowden Richard Burr Exposes IP Address Dragnet on Senate Floor
  47. 2nd Circuit Decision Striking Down Dragnet Should Require Tighter “Specific Selection Term” Language in USA F-ReDux
  48. 2nd Circuit Rules Phone Dragnet Exceeds Section 215
  49. Ten Goodies USA F-ReDux Gives the Intelligence Community
  50. McConnell Prepares to Retreat to Short-Term Reauthorization
  51. The Double-Edged Sword of Counter-Proliferation Spying
  52. As FBI Considers Declaring State Secrets over Its Religion Training, ICE Releases Its Martyrdom Border Entry Questions
  53. Unlike the Existing Phone Dragnet, USA F-ReDux Does Not Include “Telephony” in Its Definition of Call Detail Record
  54. Sony, the White House, and 10 Downing Street: What’s the Quid Pro Quo?
  55. emptywheel Coverage of USA F-ReDux, or, PRISM for Smart Phones
  56. Congress Finally Gets Around to (Secretly) Tracking Section 215 Dragnets
  57. FBI’s Pen Registers without Any Call Records
  58. Back Door Searching the Data Coming into FBI’s Front Door
  59. Bob Litt: That Bill I Wrote Looks Great on First Read
  60. How to Break the Law Under USA F-ReDux: The Emergency Provision that Would Blow Up the Bill
  61. John Ratcliffe, US Attorney until July 2008, Says He Did Back Door Searches
  62. USA F-ReDux’s “Transparency” Provisions and Phone-PRISM
  63. Will Economists Replace Lawyers as First Against the Wall?

April 2015

  1. Nine Members of Congress Vote to Postpone the Fourth Amendment
  2. The Loss of PRTT Minimization Review in USA F-ReDux
  3. New York Times Finally Admits US Lied About Ending Afghan War
  4. Google Applauds USA F-ReDux Because It “Modernizes” Surveillance
  5. Dean Baquet Explains that the CIA Cries Wolf, But Misses How Transparency Helps Hold Feinstein Accountable
  6. Now That’s Some Disturbance in the Force
  7. The Government’s Two Freebie Phone Dragnet Orders
  8. USA F-ReDux: Chaining on “Session Identifying Information” that Is Not Call Detail Records
  9. On the Nonsense of Norms about Secrets
  10. On Drone Rule Books and Breaking the Rules
  11. Alberto Gonzales: The Counsel Represented by Counsel and Babysat by Cheney’s Counsel
  12. OLC Lowers Its Standards for Retroactive Legal Reviews
  13. John Yoo Approved the Stellar Wind Authorization that First Covered Iraq
  14. The Burr Family USE to Assassinate People in Light of Day
  15. Stellar Wind IG Report, Working Thread
  16. The Magic Lawyering Behind Stellar Wind
  17. In Newly Released IG Reports, Administration Redacted Discussion of the Bill Binney Option
  18. The “Accidental” Phone Dragnet Violations IDed in 2009 Were Actually Retained Stellar Wind Features
  19. America’s Intelligence Empire
  20. The “Sitting Next to a Baddie” American Death Authorization Has become the “Sitting in a Baddie Compound”
  21. Brennan’s Addiction to Signature Strikes Killed Weinstein
  22. On Mitch’s PATRIOT Gambit
  23. I Con the Record’s Annual Transparency™
  24. Why Do All the Stingray NDAs Date to 2011 to 2012?
  25. NSA’s Dragnet Failed to “Correlate” David Headley’s Identity, One of Its Core Functions
  26. US Shocked That Islamic State Capable of Military Training
  27. Saudis Continue to Lead US by the Nose into Ill-Considered Approach in Yemen
  28. FBI Counterterrorism Agent Discovers How FBI National Security Investigations Work
  29. “Security is a most seductive thing” and the Single Bus Line that Shut Down Boston
  30. The Shame of Formula One in Bahrain
  31. The Collective Yawn at America’s “Weaponization of Information”
  32. Citing Confidential Information Carmen Ortiz Appears to Recommit to Seeking Dzhokhar’s Execution
  33. The Danger of Someone Criticizing Political Pork Landing on the Capitol Lawn
  34. The Government Changed Its Mind about How Many Databases It Searched in the Hassanshahi Case after It Shut Down the DEA Dragnet
  35. Mike Rogers Wanted to Drone Kill an American Citizen for Training with al Qaeda?
  36. Bob Graham’s Credibility
  37. New York Times Comes Tantalizingly Close to Admitting “Training” in Iraq Doesn’t Work
  38. Hassanshahi Bids to Undermine the DEA Dragnet … and All Dragnets
  39. Michael Horowitz’ Monthly Complaint about FBI and DEA Stonewalling
  40. Iran’s Description of Incident at Saudi Airport Changes
  41. Congress Continues to Act Like a Rump Appendage on War
  42. Hollywood Illiberal: The Entertainment Industry’s Misogyny and Society’s Broken Mirror
  43. DEA’s Dragnet and David Headley
  44. The Other Possible Whys behind the Boston Marathon Attack
  45. Neoliberal Markets Deliver for the Rich
  46. Is Stingray Unique or Does All National Security Information Sharing Involve Such Silencing?
  47. PCLOB’s New Work: Examining “Activities” Taking Place in the Loopholes of EO 12333
  48. Given Call for War, Pakistan’s Parliament Chose Peace. Will US Congress Ignore Call for Peace, Choose War?
  49. A Guide to the 5+ Known Intelligence Community Telecommunications Metadata Dragnets
  50. CISA Hack of the Day: White House Can Already Share Intelligence with the State Department
  51. Government’s Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki Used “Significantly Different” EO 12333 Analysis
  52. Dick Cheney Gets Judy Miller to Serve as His Cut-Out, Again
  53. “Information Is No Longer Being Collected in Bulk [Pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 876]”
  54. DEA Likely Has More than One Dragnet
  55. Everything in the War on Terror Came from the War on Drugs
  56. FBI’s Cell Phone Investigative Kiosk Would Allow Fourth Amendment Violations
  57. Yes, Section 215 Might Be Used to Get Dick Pics — or Porn Searches and Dick Uploads
  58. Homo Economicus and the Absurd Human
  59. CIA’s Girlie PsyOp: Call MoDo
  60. Section 215’s Multiple Programs and Where They Might Hide after June 1
  61. Dzhokhar’s Phones
  62. The Precedent for Using Presidential National Emergency Proclamations to Expand Surveillance
  63. Iran, P5+1 “Succeeded in Making History”
  64. President Obama Declares the Threat to Crappy Sony Movies a National Emergency
  65. Tamerlan Tsarnaev Moved Inspire onto Dzhokhar’s Computer the Day He Left for Russia

March 2015

  1. Judge Rejects Panetta Review FOIA Because Review Is True
  2. The Crooks Who Took Down Silk Road
  3. More Straws on US Financial Hegemonic Camel’s Back
  4. Heinonen Moves Deceptive Anti-Iran Campaign from Washington Post Opinion Page to New York Times News Page
  5. NSA Tried to Roll Out Its Automated Query Program Between Debates about Killing It
  6. Software Is Not Capital if You’re Not a Software Company
  7. The AP’s Recycled “We Don’t Need a Phone Dragnet” Story Lays the Groundwork for Swapping Section 215 for CISA
  8. The NSL to 215 Collection: Data Flows AND URLs
  9. Did Authorizing Torture Make the National Security Council an Agency Subject to FOIA?
  10. FBI’s Preventative Role: Hygiene for Corporations, Spies for Muslims
  11. FBI Field Offices Don’t See the Point in Racial Profiling
  12. Tamerlan’s Search on Remote Control Car Info
  13. Report: FBI Needs to Hunt “Space-System Intruders” Better
  14. Details on the Pressure Cooker Dragnet
  15. DOJ Pissed Away $2.1 Million on Drones that Don’t Work
  16. Devin Nunes Thinks Congress Needs More Classified Briefings to Understand Phone Dragnet
  17. Does Mossad Take Requests?
  18. On CISA the Surveillance Bill
  19. The $450 an Hour Terror Industry Echo Chamber
  20. In Which the National Security Council Discovers the Grand Jury Subpoena
  21. Correlations and FBI Claims in the Marathon Trial
  22. Washington Post Fails to Disclose Heinonen’s UANI Connection in Anti-Iran Op/Ed
  23. CISA’s Terrorists Are Not Just Foreign Terrorists
  24. Have the Banks Escaped Criminal Prosecution because They’re Spying Surrogates?
  25. Is Matt DeHart Being Prosecuted Because FBI Investigated CIA for the Anthrax Leak?
  26. David Petraeus’ Defense Attorney Argues Mistress-Biographers Have More Legal Privilege than Defense Attorneys
  27. Chelsea Manning Warned of Nuri al-Maliki’s Corruption in 2010. David Petraeus’ Subordinates Silenced Her.
  28. If FISC Consults Technical Experts and Nobody Sees It, Does It Really Happen?
  29. If Section 215 Lapsed, Would the Government Finally Accede to ECPA Reform?
  30. Hint: USA Freedom Act Would Have Ratified FISC’s “Relevant To” Interpretation, Too
  31. What Was the Anthrax Attack Targeting Patrick Leahy Doing in the Iraq NIE?
  32. The Unopened Torture Report and Trusting CIA on Other Covert Operations
  33. If US Won’t Share Intelligence with Those Hosting Snowden, Why Are We Engaged with Russia on ISIL?
  34. Edward Snowden Got One Fifth of Americans to Adopt Better Passwords
  35. Dick Cheney’s Foggy Memory on Bush’s Plausible Deniability for Torture
  36. Dick Cheney on the Dangers of Internet Spying
  37. In February, the Government Turned in Its Dragnet Homework Late
  38. Is There a Programmatic Stingray?
  39. Iran Sends Missiles to Iraq: US Finally Shows Concern for Sectarianism, Civilian Casualties
  40. Jim Comey’s Consistent Dodges on Torture
  41. What an XKeyscore Fingerprint Looks Like
  42. The Standards for CIA Crimes
  43. The 4-Year Old Pizza Conversations
  44. John Brennan’s Careful Dodge of Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Abuses
  45. Deconstructing Neoclassical Utility
  46. John Brennan Predicts the Dissolution of the Nation-State Structure
  47. Did John Brennan Confirm NSA’s Role in Tracking Finance?
  48. CIA Headquarters Ordered Janat Gul’s Torture to Keep Going for an OLC Approval
  49. UK More Interested in Asian Investment than Its Special Relationship
  50. Move Afoot to Get UN Security Council Action to Prevent GOP Meddling After Iran Deal
  51. Jim Comey’s Learned Helplessness about the Torture Report
  52. NSA Probably Doesn’t Have ALL of Hillary’s Emails … But Maybe Someone Should
  53. The Marathon Trial: An Assessment of FBI and NSA’s Online Investigations
  54. Time to Burn Lord Jeffrey Amherst’s Genocidal Blankets
  55. BREAKING: Venezuela Has Worse Human Rights Problems than Saudi Arabia … ?
  56. AP Also Notes the Torture and Drones Double Standard
  57. Should Ex-Senator Tied to CIA “Accountability” Be Involved in This Kind of Propaganda?
  58. Better Put Tom Cotton and His 46 Co-Conspirators on the No-Fly List
  59. Choking the Security State with Its Own Bottleneck
  60. In 2015, CIA Will Proactively Respond to the “Digital Revolution”
  61. Why Didn’t the Government Make a Bigger Deal about Iranians Hacking Sheldon Adelson?
  62. Does Petraeus Plea Say NO Classified Info Appears in “All In”?
  63. David Cole’s Shiny Objects
  64. Maybe Petraeus’ Plea Deal Is More Interesting to the Benghazi Report than Hillary’s Emails?
  65. Bob Litt Tried to Stuff Ron Wyden down Alice In Wonderland’s Rabbit Hole
  66. CBP Repeats the Snowden Asylum “Mistake” with Matthew DeHart
  67. The Persistent Concerns about Altered Financial Data
  68. FBI Is Not “Surveilling” WikiLeaks Supporters in Its Never-Ending Investigation; Is It “Collecting” on Them?
  69. David Petraeus: The Bestest General Ever Since George Washington
  70. Neoliberal Utility and the Paradox of Taxation
  71. Partnering with the Kiwis, NSA “Protects” Us from Climate Resistors?
  72. DOJ Can’t Keep Its Spin Straight in the Sterling Case
  73. David Petraeus Gets Hand-Slap for Leaking, Two Point Enhancement for Obstruction of Justice
  74. James Clapper Admits Phone Dragnet Data Retention Is about Discerning Patterns
  75. The Jihadi John Cover Story
  76. The “Torture Works” Story

February 2015

  1. Piketty Gets A Laugh At Mankiw’s Expense
  2. Will Verizon Challenge the Government’s Fishy Dragnet?
  3. The Government Continues to Play Hide and Seek with Surveillance Authorities
  4. American Hegemony: Delivering “Unpredictable Instability” the World Over
  5. FBI Now Claiming Section 215 (Which Is Different Than the Phone Dragnet) Has a Big Role in Hacking Investigations
  6. Markets as a Justification for Milton Friedman’s New Liberalism
  7. NSA’s Dysfunctional Post-Tasking Checks
  8. Insanity Continues to Build Around Prospect of Iran Nuclear Pact
  9. FBI Now Holding Up Michael Horowitz’ Investigation into the DEA
  10. Bibi Lied to UN in 2012, Likely to Lie to US Next Week
  11. Does the FBI STILL Have an Identity Crisis?
  12. Working Thread: 702 Minimization Procedures (NSA and CIA)
  13. After Failing at the White House, Then Illegally Hacking SSCI, Brennan Wants Cyber
  14. How Internet Dragnettery Got Way More Permissive Under PRISM
  15. Working Thread: 702 Minimization Procedures (FBI)
  16. David Cole Turns in His Torture Homework Late, Gets a C
  17. Loretta Lynch Is A Dubious Nominee For Attorney General
  18. What Was the CIA Really Doing with Merlin by 2003?
  19. Reminder: Bybee Was Too Busy Protecting Big Oil to Oversee Torture
  20. After Taking Bold Stand Against Testing Kindergartners, Susan Bowles is Teacher of Year
  21. Yes, Eric Holder Does Do the Intelligence Community’s Bidding in Leak Prosecutions
  22. 34 Years Later, Treasury Is Still Operating without Procedures to Protect Americans under EO 12333
  23. AP’s Matt Lee: US Officials Say Netanyahu Trying to Destroy Iran Negotiations
  24. A Proposed Definition of Market Economy
  25. Jeb! Manspreads His Way into the Foreign Policy Debate
  26. Nick Rasmussen’s Leak Interviews
  27. After Five Years, Saudis Will Finally Get Their Drones to Strike Houthis
  28. In War That Didn’t End, UN Finds Afghan Civilian Deaths Up 25% Over Previous Year
  29. DOJ Doesn’t Want You To Think CIA Doctored Evidence in the Sterling Trial
  30. The Secret Squirrels Pitching “Countering Violent Extremism”
  31. Mossad Now Issuing Denials for CIA?
  32. The Merlin Operation: Bob S’ 70% Thinking
  33. Loretta Lynch: Not Enough Evidence to Charge HSBC Banksters
  34. A Proposed Definition of Market
  35. Merlin’s Testimony: “It’s Lie,” “I Don’t Remember,” and “I Don’t Know”
  36. Military Just Can’t Kick Its Afghanistan Habit, Picks Up Pace of Night Raids
  37. Dianne Feinstein Calls Out NCTC Head for Bullshit Torture Report Threat Assessment
  38. Matt DeHart Denied Asylum in Canada
  39. “Success” in GWOT: Evacuated Embassies in Yemen, Open Season on Muslims in US
  40. Judge White Makes Crucial Error While Capitulating to State Secrets, Again
  41. DOJ IG Michael Horowitz Points Out How Premature 215 Reauthorization Would Be. Again.
  42. Sometimes, Death Just Happens
  43. The Problem With Market Definitions
  44. Bernie Sanders Warns of the Rise of Nazis if the Fed Helps ECB Further Destabilize Greece
  45. Rauf Exploited One Last Time, Now Latest Drone Victim
  46. CIA Stiffed Merlin on His Spy Salary
  47. Merlin Was Reading James Risen in 1999
  48. CIA’s Merlin Was Arranging Fake Nuclear Deals on an AOL Account Shared with His Wife and Kids
  49. Mapping Treasure: Looking Beyond the Yield of Traditional Insider Trading
  50. Why Did ODNI Fight So Hard to Hide the Census Opinion?
  51. Bob Litt: No Contingency Plans for Section 215
  52. How CIA Criminalized a Senate Staffer Google Search
  53. Russia’s Sabre-Rattling: Not Just Bluster About Banks and Ukraine Unrest
  54. The 702 Crimes Include Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and “Transnational Crimes”
  55. Why Aren’t Tech Companies Demanding the Common Commercial Service Agreement OLC?
  56. DOJ Says It’s Not Legally Required to Tell Wyden Whether Executive Branch Conduct Was Legal
  57. NOW Will Saudi Support for 9/11 become Toxic?
  58. Brilliant New Iraq Strategy Unveiled: Promote Sunni-Shia Reconciliation
  59. Working Thread: New and Improved Dragnettery
  60. Caesars Palace Not Held to Same Standard Lavabit Is
  61. Merlin: Both Russian Engineers Had Problems with the Blueprints

January 2015

  1. Superb Owl Types: Check in Here for NotAllFootBall
  2. Emptywheel’s Super Bowl XLIX Trash Talk
  3. CIA’s Careful Terrorism
  4. What is the Definition of a Market?
  5. Where IS Abdul Rauf Khadim and Whose Side IS He On?
  6. What Did David Shedd Know and When Did He Know It?
  7. Walter Pincus’ Great Intelligence Work
  8. Levitation: Inspire-Ing Work from CSE
  9. Remember, the President’s Review Group Consulted with ATF
  10. Did Obama Order Total Information Shutdown on Afghanistan?
  11. Marissa Alexander, Jeff Toobin and Blackledge
  12. How the Sterling Prosecution Threatens Even Unclassified Tips
  13. DOJ Believes Outcry over Subpoenas Equates an Adverse Response
  14. Shell Announces $11 Billion Petrochemical Plant for Iraq: What Could Go Wrong?
  15. Double Duty Dragnets
  16. Iran Claims Arrest of 20 Jeish Al-Adl Members
  17. Jury Convicts Sterling on All Nine Counts
  18. Saudi Royal Succession and Petrodollar Laundering
  19. Four minutes and 11 seconds
  20. World Leaders on Twitter
  21. To Avenge Mr. Merlin, CIA Exposed Mrs. Merlin
  22. As Disneyland Measles Outbreak Rages in California, Pakistani Father Arrested After Unvaccinated Son Contracts Polio
  23. The Sterling Closing Arguments: Who Is the Hero, Who Is the Storyteller?
  24. Government Tries to Implicate Sterling with Calls to CIA’s House Reporter
  25. Afghan Cabinet: Nominate First, Screen Later
  26. Government Tries to Convict Jeffrey Sterling for Retroactively Classified Documents about Rotary Phones
  27. Ebola Outbreak Finally Receding in Sierra Leone; CDC Modeling Was Incredibly Accurate
  28. Government Pioneers Hairdresser Venue-Shopping in Jeffrey Sterling Case
  29. Rehman’s Jinnah Institute Causes Stir as Pakistani Federal Minister Calls Out Saudi Destabilization
  30. The Tie between Jeffrey Sterling and CIA-on-the-Hudson
  31. Cyber Secret Sources Finally Met a Snowden Leak to Love!
  32. Working Thread on DOJ IG Report on 702
  33. NFL Conference Championship Trash Talk
  34. The Privileges Waging a “War” on Terror Thereby Accords AQAP
  35. Jim Comey Bullies NYT to Stop Publishing Anonymous Claims about Drone Killings
  36. The Government’s Database Arbitrage
  37. The Jeffrey Sterling Trial: Merlin Meets Curveball
  38. Islamic State Recruiter in Afghanistan Was “Substantially Exploited” at Guantanamo
  39. Coverage from the Jeffrey Sterling Trial
  40. Per Capita US Support for Pakistan’s Displaced Dwarfs Support for Syrian Refugees
  41. PATRIOT Extension: Congress Can’t Just Extend PATRIOT
  42. The Latest Phone Dragnet Addition: Imminent Death Overrides
  43. Michael Mosman’s Interesting 10 Days
  44. If Bibi Wasn’t Wanted, Maybe Obama Wasn’t Either?
  45. SIGAR Finds Huge Problems With $300 Million Afghan National Police Payroll
  46. DC’s Elite: Let Our General Go!
  47. NCAA Football Championship Trash Talk (after NFL games)
  48. Rules on Leaking for Generals and CIA Directors
  49. James Clapper’s Dystopian Novel about North Korea’s Hack
  50. Ghani Institutes Night Raids While Facing Treason Accusations Over Absence of Cabinet
  51. Distribution of Income By The Plutocracy
  52. If IPs Are So Solid, Why Won’t FBI Tell Us How Many Americans Get Sucked Up in Section 702?
  53. North Korea and Sony: James Clapper Describes His Trip
  54. Pentagon Slowly Coming to Realization That There Might Possibley Be Civilian Deaths from Airstrikes On ISIS
  55. Does Dianne Feinstein Realize DOJ Has a Big Exception for National Security Interrogations?
  56. More Visibility on Stingrays
  57. Pakistan’s National Assembly, Senate Pass Bills Establishing Military Courts
  58. The NSA’s Funny Numbers, Again
  59. Attack at Saudi-Iraq Border Kills Three Saudi Guards
  60. Hacking in the IOB Reports
  61. What the Reporting on the Re-Released DOJ IG Report on Section 215 Missed about FBI’s Misuse of Terrorism Tools
  62. 2014 Wildcard Weekend NFL Trash Talk
  63. Anas al-Libi Dies of Cancer before Trial
  64. FISA “Physical Searches” of Raw Traffic Feeds, Hiding in Plain Sight?
  65. The IOB Reports on the Internet Dragnet Violations: “Nothing to Report”

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