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Posts Tagged domestic surveillance

For the Record, I Am Not on the CIA Payroll

By | 12.17.09 | 9:52 am

Charlie Savage and Scott Shane have a great story today about U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies improperly spying on constitutionally protected activities of American citizens. Overcollection, as it’s euphemistically known in the intelligence business, has, unsurprisingly, occurred for years, despite official denials in the Bush administration. One American More…

Attacking ‘Misrepresentations,’ Brennan Suggests He Played a Role in Domestic Surveillance

By | 08.06.09 | 1:33 pm

I’ll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan’s speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several key tenets of the Bush administration’s approach. But on one issue that I asked Brennan about, the president’s chief adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security seemed More…