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In Reality Winner Case, Government Warns of Recruitment by Media Outlets that "Procure the Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Info"

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emptywheel
The government's response to Reality Winner's bid for bail suggests they may be trying to build a case against the Intercept for "recruiting" her or "procuring" classified documents.
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Trump's Belated Jones Act Waiver for PR Is A Sham, Here's Why

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bmaz
This means Trump's "waiver" has maybe five days of use to Puerto Rico, an island of devastated American citizens that will be rebuilding and recovering for years.
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]
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FISA and the Space-Time Continuum

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emptywheel
In addition to the well-known limits tied to geography under FISA, there are also non-public rules that are supposed to prevent the government from accessing data from times they're not supposed to access. But there are ways to game those rules.

How the FISC Takes Notice of Magistrate Decisions and DOJ Tries to Hide That

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emptywheel
After three years of hiding it behind claims of classification, the government has finally revealed that FISC, not DOJ, raised a PCTDD decision back in 2006.
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Government Decides Reality Winner Leaked Just One Document After All

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emptywheel
Reality Winner largely got denied bail because the government claimed she had told her mother she had more documents to leak. The government has since corrected that claim.
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The Mark Zaid Materials from the Jeffrey Sterling Trial

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emptywheel
Because he just formed a new whistleblower group with John Napier Tye, there as been renewed interest in allegations an FBI Agent made during the Jeffrey Sterling case about attorney Mark Zaid. But there was actually a second detail regarding…
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Not Mentioned in Roger Stone's Straw Rat-Fucker Statement: the Peter Smith Rat-Fuck

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emptywheel
Not only does Roger Stone not call himself a rat-fucker in his statement to HPSCI, but he doesn't mention the stuff rat-fuckers like him were doing.
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It's Not the Economy, Stupid

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Jim White
Despite Bill Clinton's famous catchphrase that he rode to two terms in the White House, and despite its echo in the 2016 campaign when Trump voters were described as acting out of "economic anxiety", politics in the United States in my lifetime…
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Three Things: So Many Questions, September Edition

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Rayne
So many questions have piled up, needing answers — I had to take time out to put bits and pixels to digital paper. Brace yourself.
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Facebook Anonymously Admits It IDed Guccifer 2.0 in Real Time

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emptywheel
26 paragraphs into an article suggesting the company was insufficiently attentive to Russian threats, the WaPo reveals Facebook alerted the FBI to efforts of Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks in real time.
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Did President Trump Violate Federal Law With His Alabama Rant?

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bmaz
I wrote yesterday about the racial, social and football implications of Trump's rant in the history and home of George Wallace. But a new, and by all appearances excellent, commenter on that post noted this: "It occurs to me that his…
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The NSA's 5-Page Entirely Redacted Definition of Metadata

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emptywheel
NSA has a five page definition of the term "metadata" that is centrally important to upstream 702 collection. But you're not allowed to read it.
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When The President Hates A Race And Talks Racist Trash

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bmaz
President Donald J. Trump is a racist bigot. Jemele Hill was right on that one, not that sane people had not already realized it long ago, and well before his election. Take his ignorant position on the Central Park Five case, just as a for…
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How to Read the DHS Targeted States Information

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emptywheel
This post attempts to correct some misconceptions about the DHS notice yesterday that Russians attempted to target the voting registration databases of 21 states.
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The NSA's Purge Obfuscations

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emptywheel
When the government had to provide John Bates with a number of total purged communications in 2011, it did not include PRISM collection in that.
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]

The Reclassification of Details on the 2011 Upstream Fight

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emptywheel
The government has just reclassified the dates that make it clear the NSA was blowing off Ron Wyden's request for a count of US person communications sucked up under 702 at the same time as they were developing that for John Bates.
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Amid Promises to Share Ads with Congress, Some Other Interesting Promises

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emptywheel
Little noticed in Facebook's promise to keep investigating what happened in last year's election is a suggestion they'll also look at what the campaigns did.
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A Better Example of Article III FISA Oversight: Reaz Qadir Khan

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emptywheel
NSA's General Counsel said some funny things in a speech about judicial oversight of FISA's Section 702. Here are some corrections.
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One Thing Not Mentioned in Mueller Requests from the White House: The Putin Phone Call

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emptywheel
One thing is not explicitly on the three versions of lists of things that Robert Mueller has requested from the White House: details of the January 28 phone call with Vladimir Putin.
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Facebook Troll Account Events Happen in Wake of Guccifer 2.0 Released Targeting Data

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emptywheel
The first events Facebook troll promoted events that might legitimately have had an effect on the election -- a set of rallies in Florida on August 20 -- came in the wake of Guccifer 2.0 releasing congressional targeting data for FL.
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