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2 Mar 2013, 4:54 am by Benjamin Wittes
Spencer Ackerman explains: Flesh-and-blood dogs merely fetch. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 8:07 am
Spencer Ackerman upbraids his former employers at The New Republic for their lack of seriousness on Iraq while feigning "seriousness. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 2:51 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Today, Spencer Ackerman at the Washington Independent debunked the core rationale behind Sen. [read post]
10 May 2012, 4:16 pm by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
This morning, Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman continued to shock readers by exposing some of the most vehemently anti-Muslim training documents used by the U.S. government that have come to light to date. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 6:13 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The just-released manual, entitled “Civilian Casualty Mitigation,” was the subject of this article last year by Spencer Ackerman. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 10:44 am by lennyesq
Guardian US national security editor Spencer Ackerman takes us through the ruling in annotated text:     Klayman et, al versus Obama et. al View this document on Scribd Related articles NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules(globalclarity.info) Edward Snowden Says Judge’s Ruling on Unconstitutionality of NSA Surveillance Methods Vindicates His Disclosures (alternet.org) US Federal Judge: NSA is Breaching… [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 10:44 am by lennyesq
Guardian US national security editor Spencer Ackerman takes us through the ruling in annotated text:     Klayman et, al versus Obama et. al View this document on Scribd Related articles NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules(globalclarity.info) Edward Snowden Says Judge’s Ruling on Unconstitutionality of NSA Surveillance Methods Vindicates His Disclosures (alternet.org) US Federal Judge: NSA is Breaching… [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 7:27 pm by Peter Tillers
The information found in Dan Roberts & Spencer Ackerman's article Obama review panel: strip NSA of power to collect phone data records in The Guardian (December 18 2013) suggests that some progress has been made on the issue of NSA collection of polyphony metadata for domestic calls, but apparently only modest progress has been made [see the article] (and Senator Feinstein, I assume, will do all she can to forestall even this modest progress). [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 3:29 am by Jack Goldsmith
  Spencer Ackerman has a good story summarizing and explaining its conclusions: The Pentagon’s science advisers want military robots to operate with far greater autonomy than they do today. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:46 am
On Wired.com: Bill Would Keep Big Brother’s Mitts Off Your GPS Data by Spencer Ackerman: The reauthorization of the Patriot Act looks like a forgone conclusion. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 9:30 am
Spencer Ackerman writes about it: [A]fter last week's rapid, controversial revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in which McConnell played chief Congressional negotiator, lawmakers are wondering: Was McConnell set up by the Bush administration? [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 12:58 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Spencer Ackerman, to cite a typical example, puts it this way: I seriously question how this memo reflects anything but the ratification of a forgone conclusion. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 8:15 pm by Ritika Singh
The New York Times and Wired’s Spencer Ackerman have the story. [read post]
" Spencer Ackerman, writing for The Washington Independent, concludes that the changes will effectively make it more difficult to remove a soldier, sailor, airman or marine who does not out himself or herself as gay. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 5:20 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Spencer Ackerman and James Ball - The Guardian: “Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 2:57 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Spencer Ackerman had this story about it last year. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 2:26 pm by Ritika Singh
Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room blog discusses Hagel’s performance, as do David Sanger of the New York Times and the Associated Press. [read post]
15 May 2015, 4:52 am by SHG
Chicago police wanted 33-year-old Angel Perez to be a snitch, and brought him to their place at Homan Square for some persuasion, according to Spencer Ackerman in the Guardian. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 1:07 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
  Spencer Ackerman points out over at Wired that defense spending on drones will drop significantly, due to fewer acquisitions by the Air Force, the Army and the Navy. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 6:34 pm by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Solicitor General has shown surprising willingness to seek Supreme Court review of district court decisions before a Circuit Court has weighed in (including in relation to the ban on transgender servicemembers) An update on three recent convictions in terrorism-related cases Airstrikes in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and elsewhere: we discuss a recent article by Spencer Ackerman regarding the data on these strikes, and the big picture implications But wait, there’s… [read post]