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Washington Post publishes US intelligence agencies’ “black budget” based on Snowden leaked document
September 4, 2013 / Leave a comment
Jumping on to JJ"s post on National Security Archive and Snowden resource documents, the Washington Post recently published its analysis and interesting infographic of the $52.6 billion dollar "black budget" of the US Intelligence agencies ( [attached PDF of infographic]. The Washington Post has released 17 pages of the top-secret 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program that was leaked by Edward Snowden (attached and below). U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary Continue reading →
National Security Archive Posts Snowden Resource Documents
September 4, 2013 / Leave a comment
The nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University has posted a compilation of over 125 documents to provide context and specifics about the about "The Snowden Affair."
- The Snowden Affair Web Resource Documents the Latest Firestorm over the National Security Agency. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 436 (September 4, 2013) Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson.
EFF: Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
August 25, 2013 / Leave a comment
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an extensive Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying that refers to legislation, reports, hearings, events, and leaked documents. It details laws and earlier programs (e.g. Total Information Awareness) that predate the most recent revelations. (It begins in 1791!) It has links to documents and hearings that make it a virtual bibliography and more than a simple list of events. EFF notes that:
All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. National Security Agency (NSA). It is intended to recall all the credible accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying program found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court actions. The timeline also includes documents leaked by the Guardian in June 2013 that confirmed the domestic spying by the NSA.Continue reading →
Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security
December 5, 2008 / Leave a comment
On Wednesday (December 3, 2008) the Majority Staff of the House Committee on Homeland Security hosted a series of roundtable discussions on the future of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties at the Department of Homeland Security. There is a schedule for the event, "A Path Forward: Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security," here with a list of participants and topics, but that does not look like a permanent link. There is also a link to a live audio feed (hosted by a dot-com, not the House), but I gather it was only "live" since it does not work today. I'm not sure of the status of such single-party, staff-not-members hearings and whether we can ever expect a transcript of such things. Is there a category of "government publication" into which this fits? or is this just another piece of fugitive ephemera? There is a news story about the meeting here:
- Panel: Government data-mining programs lack oversight, by Stephanie Condon, CNet, December 3, 2008.
President Gets More Spying Powers and Keeps U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Board from Operating
July 11, 2008 / Leave a comment
Who's Watching the Spies?, by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, Jul 9, 2008
The White House has rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pick for a newly created U.S. government civil liberties board--a move that may doom efforts to get the panel up and running while President Bush remains in office. ...the only government board specifically charged with monitoring the impact of U.S. government actions on civil liberties and privacy interests has a decreasing chance of ever actually meeting, much less doing anything, for the rest of the year.Continue reading →
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