Foreign Surveillance and the Future of Standing to Sue Post-Clapper
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R43107.pdf Reviews past attempts to file lawsuits challenging government intelligence gathering methods, specifically the case known as Clapper v. Amnesty...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice Report on Review of News Media Policies
http://www.justice.gov/ag/news-media.pdf Provides results of the review of agency policies and practices governing the use of law enforcement tools, including subpoenas, court orders, and search...
View ArticleThe Secret History of the U-2
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/ Contains material about the U-2 spy plane and a substantially more declassified history of The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconaissance: The...
View ArticleCIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/ A collection of 35 declassified documents that reveal more about the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the overthrow of then Iranian Prime...
View ArticleJoint Statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and...
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/speeches_testimonies/2013_08_21_Joint_Statement_ODNI_NSA.pdf Statement of facts relating to what the agency considers misleading press reports about NSA’s data...
View ArticleText of 2011 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion on Government...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/162016974/FISA-court-opinion-with-exemptions Text of recently declassified 2011 opinion of FISA Judge John Bates on the collection of telephone and Internet communications by...
View ArticleIntelligence Spending and Appropriations: Issues for Congress
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R42061.pdf Provides an overview of intelligence spending and trends before and after 9/11. Concludes that intelligence spending has roughly doubled since 9/11. Also...
View ArticleThe Snowden Affair
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB436/ A collection of 125 documents from various government sources, including the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the...
View ArticleSecurity Clearance Process: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/R43216.pdf Provides basic information about security clearances including the different levels of security clearance and the key steps in obtaining and maintaining a...
View ArticleDNI Clapper Declassifies Intelligence Community Documents Regarding...
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-press-releases-2013/927-draft-document Declassified opinions of the FISA court revealing a history of compliance problems by the national...
View ArticleIn Re Orders of This Court Interpreting Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2013/09/fisc-091313.pdf Ruling of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Saylor that disclosures by Edward Snowden have aroused public interest and debate about...
View Article“Disreputable if not Outright Illegal”: The National Security Agency versus...
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/ Newly declassified information that reveals the names of prominent Americans whose overseas communications were secretly targeted by the National...
View ArticleCongressional Notification for Authorized Public Disclosure of Intelligence...
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/dtm-13-009.pdf Copy of the Defense Department directive that requires notification to congressional intelligence committees within 14 days whenever a military...
View ArticleGovernment Security Classifications April 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/251480/Government-Security-Classifications-April-2014.pdf Describes the security classification system for British government...
View ArticleDOD Evaluation of Over-Classification of National Security Information
http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2013-142.pdf Reports on problems involving implementation of classification policy for Defense Department documents. Finds that 70% of documents reviewed had...
View ArticleThe Area 51 File: Secret Aircraft and Soviet MiGs
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB443/ A collection of more than 60 declassified documents on the secret test site in Nevada dealing with the Air Force’s top-secret stealth programs of the...
View ArticleReport on Government Information Requests
http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovernmentinforequests2.pdf Provides statistics from Apple on the requests received from governments related to customer accounts as well as those related to...
View ArticleGovernment Requests for User Information Double Over Three Years
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/government-requests-for-user.html Press release with links to Google Transparency Report which has bar chart showing rise in government information requests....
View ArticleIntroducing a Public Advocate into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
http://justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CRS-Report-FISC-Public-Advocate-Oct.-25-2013.pdf Looks at proposals that a civil liberties advocate be added to the structure of the FISA Court....
View ArticleDNI Clapper Declassifies Additional Intelligence Community Documents...
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-press-releases-2013/964-dni-clapper-declassifies-additional-intelligence-community-documents-regarding-collection-under-section-501-of-the-forei...
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