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The 702 reauthorization has what I consider an anti-leak package. It has some interesting features but I'm not convinced it will work as intended.

Once again, the transparency provisions in a surveillance bill don't do what they pretend to.

The story about why the TAO employee brought files home only to have them get compromised by Kaspersky don't make sense.

This is my second post on the draft House Judiciary Committee version of the Section 702 reauthorization. In this post, I'll look at how the bill tries to fix the back door search loophole. In two followup posts I'll explain why this fix is…

Does the fix for "about" communications only solve traditional communications? And what is a person, anyway?

Commentators seem to think Richard Burr's comments on the Steele dossier suggest the committee hasn't validated the dossier. It seems more like a warning from Burr about how the committee will regard the credibility of the dossier if Steele doesn't cooperate.

I can't help wonder why the post-hurricane response to Puerto Rico's devastation was so bad — so bad it looks deliberate.

I know everybody is looking at that thing right now on social media. Hang back — don't tell me what's happening with the active shooter. Don't tell me about the flood in progress. I don't need to know about the skewed path of the car or the janky homemade bomb that might have gone off a thousand miles from me.

With its new transparency report, Google has corrected -- almost entirely upwards -- the number of accounts affected by FISA collection. I suspect that's because of the uncertainty tied to the selectors tasked under both traditional FISA and, especially, Section 702.