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Dick Clarke is CEO of Good Harbor LLC, a boutique cyber security/risk management consultancy. Clarke has served in the White House, the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and the State Department. He was an Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs in the first Bush administration and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan.

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FISA Reform

Reform Section 702 to Maintain Fourth Amendment Principles

Peter Swire, Richard Clarke   Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:02 PM

Lawfare editors Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes recently criticized efforts to reform Section 702 of FISA before it expires at the end of 2017. Based on our own experience with Section 702, we respectfully disagree. There are compelling reasons to reform Section 702, notably the principles of the Fourth Amendment.