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20 Mar 2012, 11:06 am by Sung Un Kim
[JURIST] The Pakistani parliamentary national security committee on Tuesday urged the US to stop the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] drone attacks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
24 Jun 2006, 9:58 am
[JURIST] The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] declined Friday to order the government to turn over information about the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program [JURIST news archive] in its terrorism financing case against Yassin Aref. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 1:52 am
[JURIST] Lawyers representing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] argued in federal court Wednesday that national security letters (NSL) [CRS backgrounder, PDF; FBI backgrounder] authorized under the USA Patriot Act [JURIST news archive] are unconstitutional because they act as a gag order without any judicial check [press release]. [read post]
28 Dec 2005, 11:42 am
[JURIST] Defense lawyers working on several high-profile terrorism cases plan to bring legal challenges to discover whether the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] used illegal wiretaps [JURIST news archive] against several dozen Muslims linked to Al Qaeda and whether the government misled judges and defense lawyers about the selection and monitoring of suspects. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 1:48 pm
[JURIST] Authorities in Malaysia [JURIST news archive] may rely on the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) [HRW backgrounder] to halt protests, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday after Sunday demonstrations [TIME report] in Kuala Lumpur by thousands of the nation's ethnic Indians. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 1:43 am
[JURIST] The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday filed [motion, PDF] a request for partial summary judgment [FRCP 56 text] concluding that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] illegally wiretapped several conversations between the charity and its lawyers. [read post]
25 Jul 2006, 8:32 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday dismissed [ruling, PDF; press release] a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois [advocacy website] on behalf of state residents against AT&T [corporate website] for allegedly turning over phone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] as part of its domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
26 Dec 2020, 2:26 pm by Jeff
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new Cybersecurity Practice Guide, NIST SP 1800-24, entitled "Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS): Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Sector. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:04 am
Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 11:35 am
The suspects are charged with endangering national security, among other crimes, and many more are expected to be detained in the near future. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 4:14 am by Mary L. Dudziak
Unredacted, the fabulous blog of the National Security Archive, has a great series of posts on how to craft effective Freedom of Information Act requests.Start with Writing a Good FOIA Request Part I, and then Writing a Good FOIA Request, Part II. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 10:12 am
The order was a blow to the Bush administration, which has been fighting lawsuits brought by private advocacy groups Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archives [ [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 11:26 am
Holder condemned WikiLeaks' recent release of government cables [NYT backgrounder], saying that it threatens US national security [CNN report], specifically by risking the safety of those serving the country and straining important diplomatic relationships. [read post]
24 Jan 2006, 12:57 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] on Tuesday downplayed criticism [speech transcript] of the controversial domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] administered by the National Security Agency [official website], saying that reports of the program have been misleading. [read post]
20 Apr 2006, 5:02 am
[JURIST] The National Security Archive [official website], a research institute at George Washington University, won partial summary judgment on Wednesday in its lawsuit [case documents] against the US Air Force, as the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [PDF text; press release] that the Air Force had engaged in a pattern or practice of violating the Freedom [read post]
17 May 2006, 2:07 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for telecommunications giant AT&T made what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday for the return of documents collected by a former AT&T technician that supposedly detail co-operation between the company and the US National Security Agency [official website] in the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 11:57 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled [PDF text] Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] can withhold documents and information relating to its Terrorist Surveillance Program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet, PDF] requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text]. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 8:06 am by Benjamin Minegar
[JURIST] A UK court on Wednesday rejected a challenge lodged by Brazilian journalist David Miranda, who was detained and questioned by UK authorities in an airport for possessing classified documents leaked by former US National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] contractor Edward Snowden [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 4:31 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] received reports that the FBI had improperly used national security letters (NSL) [CRS backgrounder, PDF; FBI backgrounder] prior to testifying before Congress in 2005 that "there has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," the Washington Post reported Tuesday. [read post]