NSA Makes Final Push to Retain Surveillance Powers
President prepares to announce reforms
More transparency on government deals that end investigations
Trying to get information about what happens to data NSA collects
Will disclose extent of law enforcement requests for user information
"The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight"
The frivolous arguments for suppressing the 911 calls placed during the Newtown massacre.
Directs everybody to public affairs office instead
But it's fine because officials were informed
Christie already knows how to act like a president
Now that it affects important people, she wants a full surveillance review
Officials did not want intercepted evidence used as evidence in trials
"A painfully slow and opaque process," you say?
All that information at his fingertips and he still has little understanding of America
In response to bad press, state passed a law concealing names of people involved
Well, this is the most transparent administration in history, right?
So much for that whole "oversight" thing
But not all judges are allowing it.
Does not consider herself to be a pacifist -- rather she wanted public to be better-informed
Clapper flip-flops, furloughs workers
The age of easy leaks is here to stay, no matter what happens to Julian Assange.
Argues they're more efforts at nudging than useful rules for corporate transparency
Border Patrol not really using them
Unclassified information frequently stamped secret
Most transparent administration yada, yada, yada
Twelve reasons not to date an NSA worker
Case that prompted DOJ to secretly collect wire service's phone records
Calls on inspector general of intel division
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