Secrecy & Leaks
The Law of Classified Information: A Primer
Matthew Kahn Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 3:13 PM
How the U.S. government regulates its secrets.
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classified leaks
Senior Treasury Department Employee Charged with Unlawful Disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports
Mikhaila Fogel Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 12:28 PM
On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest of a senior employee at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
Donald Trump
Defend Norms, Don't Violate Them
Paul Rosenzweig Wed, May 17, 2017, 9:48 AM
The malignant deviance from normative behavior that is the Trump presidency took a turn for the worse this past week.
Secrecy & Leaks
The Shadow Brokers Dump NSA Trove, Go Out with a Whimper
Grayson Clary Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 9:32 AM
One of the stranger dramas in information security may now be over. On Saturday, apparently in protest at President Trump’s missile strike on Syria, the group that calls itself the Shadow Brokers dumped the rest of its cache of stolen NSA hacking tools. The collection of exploits had nominally been up for auction, albeit at an improbably high price in Bitcoin, since last August.
Secrecy: Leaks Prosecutions
Harold Thomas Martin III Indicted on Charges of Willful Retention of National Defense Information
Jane Chong Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 10:25 AM
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted Harold ("Hal") Thomas Martin III, a former private contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, of willful retention of national security information. The 20-count indictment describes his unauthorized retention of documents belonging to the National Security Agency, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Cyber Command, and the National Reconnaissance Office; the theft took place over a period as early as 1996 until August 27, 2016.
Drones
The Drone Papers: Intercepting the Nonsense
C. Christine Fair Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 5:30 PM
Editor’s Note: The drone program remains controversial, and critics regularly blast it for creating more terrorists than it kills. Prominent among these critics is Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept, which published an anti-drone report based on leaked documents. C.