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"Standing" Up for First Amendment Rights

On March 26, 2018, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR) issued an opinion holding that MFIA and the ACLU have standing to pursue their First Amendment right of access motion for judicial opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

ACLU v. NSA: How Greater Transparency Can Reduce the Chilling Effects of Mass Surveillance

In 1981, President Reagan issued Executive Order (E.O.) 12,333, which has since come to serve as a general charter for mass intelligence surveillance.

FBI’s Secret Gag Orders Challenged Before the Ninth Circuit

Not only does the Government have the power to issue secret subpoenas demanding your personal information from private companies—it has the power to prohibit those companies from speaking about what has taken place.

New Disclosures Reflect NSLs’ Substantive First Amendment Flaws

This year has seen a remarkable string of disclosures about national security letters (NSLs), the secret demands the FBI sends to financial and communications service providers compelling the disclosure of customer information and transactional data.

What Does the Election of Donald Trump Mean for GTMO?

On November 7, 2016—when polls were still predicting a Clinton victory in the next day’s election—MFIA filed its reply brief in Husain v. Gates, the habeas corpus action brought by Guantanamo detainee and CIA torture victim Abu Zubaydah.

The Constitution Leaves No Room for Secret Law

There are still many questions to be answered about Yahoo’s secret scanning of all of its customers’ incoming emails under a mysterious government order.