The Purpose(s) of the Dragnet, Revisited
As I noted the other day, one basis Judge Richard Leon used to find that the dragnet was likely unconstitutional was that it wasn’t all that useful. But I was particularly interested in the evidence he...
View ArticleThe Government Plays Connect-the-Dots Differently than They Say
In my continuing obsession to understand precisely how the government really uses the dragnet, consider this post, in which NSA Review Group member Geoffrey Stone conducts (IMO) inadequate analysis to...
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NSA’s Latest Claim: It Only Gets 30% of “Substantially All” the Hay in the...
In December 2007, the FBI began intercepting MOALIN’s cell phone. — FBI search warrant affidavit seeking (among other things) additional cell phones, October 29, 2010 Yesterday, Siobhan Gorman reported...
View ArticlePCLOB Ignores Glaring Section 702 Non-Compliance: Notice to Defendants
I will have far more to say about PCLOB once I finish my working thread. But there’s one glaring flaw in the report’s claim that the government complies with the statute. Based on the information that...
View ArticleJohn Bates Intervened in the Phone Dragnet Problems
Yesterday, I Con the Record released more records in response to the ACLU FOIA for records on the Section 215 program (though once again, they didn’t mention the FOIA). Three of the documents provide...
View ArticleDid DOJ Prosecute Basaaly Moalin Just to Have a Section 215 “Success”?
At yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the dragnet, the government’s numbers supporting the value of the dragnet got even worse. At one point, Pat Leahy asserted that the phone dragnet...
View ArticleThe Purpose(s) of the Dragnet, Revisited
As I noted the other day, one basis Judge Richard Leon used to find that the dragnet was likely unconstitutional was that it wasn’t all that useful. But I was particularly interested in the evidence he...
View ArticleThe Government Plays Connect-the-Dots Differently than They Say
In my continuing obsession to understand precisely how the government really uses the dragnet, consider this post, in which NSA Review Group member Geoffrey Stone conducts (IMO) inadequate analysis to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NSA’s Latest Claim: It Only Gets 30% of “Substantially All” the Hay in the...
In December 2007, the FBI began intercepting MOALIN’s cell phone. — FBI search warrant affidavit seeking (among other things) additional cell phones, October 29, 2010 Yesterday, Siobhan Gorman reported...
View ArticlePCLOB Ignores Glaring Section 702 Non-Compliance: Notice to Defendants
I will have far more to say about PCLOB once I finish my working thread. But there’s one glaring flaw in the report’s claim that the government complies with the statute. Based on the information that...
View ArticleJohn Bates Intervened in the Phone Dragnet Problems
Yesterday, I Con the Record released more records in response to the ACLU FOIA for records on the Section 215 program (though once again, they didn’t mention the FOIA). Three of the documents provide...
View ArticleDid DOJ Prosecute Basaaly Moalin Just to Have a Section 215 “Success”?
At yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the dragnet, the government’s numbers supporting the value of the dragnet got even worse. At one point, Pat Leahy asserted that the phone dragnet...
View ArticleThe Purpose(s) of the Dragnet, Revisited
As I noted the other day, one basis Judge Richard Leon used to find that the dragnet was likely unconstitutional was that it wasn’t all that useful. But I was particularly interested in the evidence he...
View ArticleThe Government Plays Connect-the-Dots Differently than They Say
In my continuing obsession to understand precisely how the government really uses the dragnet, consider this post, in which NSA Review Group member Geoffrey Stone conducts (IMO) inadequate analysis to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NSA’s Latest Claim: It Only Gets 30% of “Substantially All” the Hay in the...
In December 2007, the FBI began intercepting MOALIN’s cell phone. — FBI search warrant affidavit seeking (among other things) additional cell phones, October 29, 2010 Yesterday, Siobhan Gorman reported...
View ArticlePCLOB Ignores Glaring Section 702 Non-Compliance: Notice to Defendants
I will have far more to say about PCLOB once I finish my working thread. But there’s one glaring flaw in the report’s claim that the government complies with the statute. Based on the information that...
View ArticleJohn Bates Intervened in the Phone Dragnet Problems
Yesterday, I Con the Record released more records in response to the ACLU FOIA for records on the Section 215 program (though once again, they didn’t mention the FOIA). Three of the documents provide...
View ArticleDid DOJ Prosecute Basaaly Moalin Just to Have a Section 215 “Success”?
At yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the dragnet, the government’s numbers supporting the value of the dragnet got even worse. At one point, Pat Leahy asserted that the phone dragnet...
View ArticleThe Purpose(s) of the Dragnet, Revisited
As I noted the other day, one basis Judge Richard Leon used to find that the dragnet was likely unconstitutional was that it wasn’t all that useful. But I was particularly interested in the evidence he...
View ArticleThe Government Plays Connect-the-Dots Differently than They Say
In my continuing obsession to understand precisely how the government really uses the dragnet, consider this post, in which NSA Review Group member Geoffrey Stone conducts (IMO) inadequate analysis to...
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