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• Barton Gellman & Ashkan Soltani, NSA Tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show, The Washington Post (December 4, 2013)
• Nicole Perlroth, Internet Firms Step Up Efforts to Stop Spying, N.Y. Times (December 5, 2013)
• Anthony Faiola
Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden, Washington Post, (Nov. 30, 2013)
• Nicole Perlroth & John Markoff, NSA May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot, N.Y. Times (Nov. 25, 2013)
• Sudha Setty, No More Secret Laws: How Transparency of Executive Branch Legal Policy Doesn’t Let the Terrorists Win Excerpts P 579-581, 588-601
• Ian Fishback
Great Expectations: The Law and Society’s Ability to Generate Behavioral Predictions.
• David Pozen
The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information [PDF] Forthcoming 127 Harvard Law Review (December 2013).
Deep Secrecy [PDF]
• Marc Ambinder
10 Things You Didn’t Know About the National Security Agency Surveillance Program
• Sen. Al Franken
Summary of the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013
• Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
“The Surveillance Transparency Act of 213”
• Scott Shane
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
• The New York Times Editorial Board
British Press Freedom Under Threat
• Marty Lederman
Just Security: Additional documents on telephony records collection (and much more) declassified
• Michelle Richardson
The Guardian: Feinstein’s NSA bill shows she doesn’t have a clue about intelligence reform
• Rep. Dianne Feinstein & Rep. Saxby Chambliss
Comments: FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act
• Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
Synopsis: USA Freedom Act
• Janet Reitman
Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
• U.S. Government
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008
• U.S. Government
S.1452, To enhance transparency for certain surveillance programs authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and for other purposes.
• U.S. Government
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act) Act of 2001
• President Obama
Remarks by the President at the National Defense University
• 9th District Court of Appeals
Mohamed v. Jeppensen Dataplan [PDF]
• US District Court- New York
Azmy v. DoD [PDF]
• US District Court: District of Columbia
Excerpt from “Al-Alaqi v. Obama” [PDF]
• Jim Harper & Randy Barnett brief to the U.S. Supreme Court
In re Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Supreme Court of the United States
Chisholm v. Georgia
• Court of Common-Pleas, Michigan
Entick v. Carrington
• Supreme Court of the United States
Ex Parte Jackson
• Supreme Court of the United States
Jones v. United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
Katz v. United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
Muskrat v. United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
Olmstead v. United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
Smith v. Maryland
• Kevin R. Davis
Kantian “Publicity” and Political Justice [PDF]
• Samuel Freeman
The burdens of public justification: constructivism, contractualism, and publicity [PDF]
• Thomas Hobbes
On the Office of Sovereign Representative [PDF]
• Charles Larmore
Public Reason [PDF]
• Macchiavelli
The Prince [PDF]
• Plato
The Noble Lie [PDF]
• John Rawls
Formal Conditions of Right [PDF]
• John Rawls
Two Concepts of Rules [PDF]
• Andrew Williams
Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity [PDF]
• David Carr
Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth
• Andre Cohen
The Torture Memos: Ten Years Later
• U.S. Department of Justice
Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President
• Liza Goitein and J. William Leonard
America’s Unnecessary Secrets
• Gia Lee
The Presidents Secret [PDF] George Washington Law Review, 2007.
• Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts; Introduction [PDF]
• Charlie Savage
Ex-C.I.A Officer Charged in Information Leak
• Peter M. Shane
Executive Branch Self-Policing in Times of Crisis: The Challenges for Conscientious Legal Analysis
• Max Weber
Economy and Society, Ch. 11: Bureaucracy” [PDF]
• John Brennan
The Ethics and Efficacy of the President’s Counterterrorism Strategy
• Justin Elliott
Obama Administration’s Drone Death Numbers Don’t Add up
• John Hart Ely
War and Responsibility, Ch 4-5 [PDF]
• Josh Gerstein
Judge losing patience with feds in targeted killing FOIA case
• Jack Goldsmith
Fire When Ready
• Kevin Govern
Warrant-Based Killings [PDF]
• Karen Greenberg
Doubling down on 9/11
• Scott Horton
Justifying the Killing of an American
• David S. Kris and J. Douglas Wilson
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - The FISC’s personnel and facilities
• David S. Kris and J. Douglas Wilson
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - The FISC’s review of applications
• Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger
NYTimes: Tap on Merkel Provides Peek at Vast Spy Net
• W. Michael Reisman and James E. Baker
Regulating Covert Action, Ch. 1-2 [PDF]
• Charlie Savage
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen
• Kim Lane Scheppelle
The Sociology of Secrecy [PDF] Legal Secrets, Chapter 1
• Scott Shane
U.S. Attacks, Online and From the Air, Fuel Secrecy Debate
• Daniel Swift
Drone Knowns and Drone Unknowns [PDF]
• Emptywheel
CIA’s Drone Lies and Congressional Oversight
• U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Use of Section 215 of Patriot Act
• Nola K. Breglio
Leaving FISA Behind: The Need to Return to Warrantless Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
• Hon. James G. Carr and Patricia L. Bellia
Constitutional challenges to FISA - Fourth Amendment
• David Cole and Martin S. Lederman
The National Security Agency’s Domestic Spying Program: Framing the Debate
• Brian R. Decker
“The War of Information”: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Hamdan V. Rumselfeld, and the President’s Warrantless-Wiretapping Program
• Michael Dorf
Arlen Specter’s Swan Song: Mandating Cameras in the Supreme Court
• Michael Fraggetta
A Comprehensive Analysis of the National Security Agency’s Wiretapping Program and Its Correlation with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
• Amy Goodman
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
• Leslie Paul Machado and C. Matthew Haynes
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 1 Data Sec. & Privacy Law
• Senator Jeff Merkley
Senator Merkley on Secret Law and NSA Spying
• Adam D. Moore
Privacy, Security and Government Surveillance: Wikileaks and the New Accountability [PDF]
• Alan Rubel
Privacy and the USA Patriot Act: Rights, the Value of Right, and Autonomy [PDF]
• Anthony M. Shults
The “Surveil or Kill” Dilemma: Separation of Powers and the FISA Amendments Act’s Warrant Requirement for Surveillance of U.S. Citizens Abroad
• E.E.B. and K.E.M.
Plugging the Leak: The Case for a Legislative Resolution of the Conflict between the Demands of Secrecy and the Need for an Open Government [pdf]
• Alan M Katz
Government Information Leaks and the First Amendment [PDF]
• Tara McKelvey
Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists
• Heidi Kitrosser
Classified Information Leaks and Free Speech [PDF] University of Illinois Law Review, 2008.
• Derigan A. Silver
National Security and the Press: The Government’s Ability to Prosecute Journalists for the Possession or Publication of National Security Information [PDF]
• Geoffrey R. Stone
Prosecuting the Press for Publishing Classified Information [PDF]