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FBI Encryption Fiction; Court Lifts 1st Natl Security Letter Gag Order in 14 Yrs; US Intel Vets Attack CIA Torture
FBI Keeps Telling Purely Theoretical Encryption Horror Stories. “I will be the first person to tell you that we’ve done a really bad job collecting empirical data. We need to do a much better job of that,” said Amy Hess, the FBI’s assistant executive director of science and technology, at an encryption debate hosted by Passcode, a new security and privacy blog from the Christian Science Monitor.
Federal Court Lifts National Security Letter Gag Order; First Time in 14 Years. U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero’s decision “vindicates the public’s right to know how the FBI uses warrantless surveillance to peer into our digital lives,” Merrill said.
US Intel Vets Decry CIA’s Use of Torture. There is no excuse; there is no justification. No threat, no matter how grave, should serve to justify inhuman behavior and immoral conduct or torture conducted by Americans.
