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Category: FRINFORMSUM

FRINFORMSUM 3/27/2014: Competing Plans to Overhaul the NSA, Senate to Vote Soon on Declassifying Parts of Contentious Torture Report, and Much More.

March 27, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 3/20/2014: the NSA’s MYSTIC Program Powerful Enough to Swallow a “nation’s telephone program whole,” Judge Calls a DOJ Search Practice “repugnant to the Fourth Amendment,” and Much More.

March 20, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 3/13/2014: Senators Grill DOJ’s Top FOIA Officer and Express Concerns the DOJ doesn’t Act According to Obama’s “Day One” Transparency Promise, and Sen. Feinstein Finally Condemns an Intel Agency’s Snooping –If Only Because it was on her Staff

March 13, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 3/6/2014: Battle Rages Between CIA and Senate Intel Committee over Torture Report, Conflicting Intelligence Analysis of the Ukraine Crisis, and More.

March 6, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 2/27/2014: House Unanimously Passes FOIA Bill, DOJ will try to Inform Media Orgs if it Intends to Seize their Records in Leak Investigations, and More.

February 27, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 2/20/2014: Snowden Docs Reveal NSA Spied on American Law Firm and Targeted WikiLeaks, DHS Scraps Plan to Build National License Plate Tracking System, and More.

February 20, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 2/13/2014: Top Pentagon Official Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos, NSA Employee Gave Snowden Password to Classified Info Network, US Falls in Press Freedom Rankings to #46, and Much More.

February 13, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 2/6/2014: NSA “probably” Collects Congressional Phone Data, the DEA Tries to Hide Classified Evidence with “Parallel Construction,” and Much More.

February 6, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 1/30/2014: Russian “Foreign Agents,” New Data Disclosure Rules, More Americans Value Privacy over Anti-Terrorism Protections, and Much More.

January 30, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 1/23/2014: Watchdog Report Says NSA Program Illegal and Should be Shut Down, Secret Budget Provision Blocks Drone Program Transfer, the George W. Bush Library Now Open for FOIA Requests, and More.

January 23, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 1/16/2014: DOJ Moves to Finalize FOIA Reg Changes, Obama’s Surveillance Options, Drones, and Much More.

January 16, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 1/09/2014: Obama Considers Surveillance Changes, the FBI is “just keeping up with the times,” and Much More.

January 9, 2014
FRINFORMSUM 12/19/2013: NSA’s Bulk Data Collection “Almost Certainly Unconstitutional,” the Senate Intel Committee Squares off with the CIA, EPA Employee Pretended to Work for CIA to Miss Two Years of Work, and More.

December 19, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 12/12/2013: John Podesta Joins the Obama Administration, NSA Chief Argues for Continuation of Bulk Data Collection, and a Top National Security Lawyer Seems to be Trying to Avoid the FOIA

December 12, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 12/5/2013: NSA’s Holiday Talking Points, it’s Best not to Legislate When Angry, and the National Archives asks for Declassification Recommendations

December 5, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 11/21/2013: It’s Complicated

November 21, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 11/14/2013: No ‘No-Spy’ Pacts, the Stuxnet Worm Strikes Again, DHS’s Internet Kill Switch, and More

November 14, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 11/7/2013: Action Plans, Bills, Budgets, and the CIA and DOD’s Baffling ‘OK-to-Torture’ Rationalization

November 7, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 10/24/2013: Overclassification, Drones, and More

October 24, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 10/17/2013: Another Intelligence Chief Admits to Lying, NSA Knows your ‘Buddies’, and More

October 17, 2013