Mieke Eoyang joins a panel of national security and intelligence professionals to discuss congressional oversight and how best to balance security and transparency.
Litt responds to Intercept article: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/ How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Litt responds to Intercept article: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/ How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Bob Litt argues that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper didn't lie about bulk collection, he made a mistake and forgot about a specific program during testimoney to Congress
ODNI's Bob Litt and ACLU's Patrick Toomey discuss parallel construction.
At a Sunlight event, panelists tried to figure out what the jurisdictional impact of the 2nd Circuit's opinion on the phone dragnet was.
Advisory Committee on Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Bob Litt and Patrick Toomey
The panel discusses the lack of staff with proper clearance in the House.
A discussion of the "memento" problem, or the difficulty for Members of Congress and staff keeping track of intelligence information over time.
Pat Eddington of the Cato Institute asks Bob Litt if the Intelligence Community Inspector General (or anyone else) has done a comprehensive inventory of surveillance authorites
Discussion of problems associated with record keeping, staff turnover, and more tha hamper the House intelligence committee
