Commentary
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Below is a curated list of links to recent publications.
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Primary Sources
NSI endeavors to serve as a resource to students, practitioners, and members of the public looking for a central location for primary sources of national security law. Below are links to key national security statutes, guidelines, agency publications, pending legislation, and other resources. If you wish to suggest another sources for inclusion, please email us.
Stewart Baker, Matthew Heiman, and Alan Cohn
Regulatory Transparency Project – Discussion on the Wassenaar Arrangement (Podcast)
Stewart Baker, Thomas Hazlett, Matthew R. Heiman, Justin Hurwitz, Jamil N. Jaffer, Paul Rosenzweig, and Megan Stifel
Regulatory Transparency Project – Regulators in Cyberia
Gen. (ret.) Keith B. Alexander
Cyber Strategy and Policy (Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee)
Center for a New American Security:
Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond
GWU Center for Cyber and Homeland Security:
Into the Grey Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense Against Cyber Threats
Gen. (ret.) Keith B. Alexander
Digital Acts of War: Evolving the Cybersecurity Conversation (Testimony before the Subcommittees on Information Technology and National Security of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform)
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.:
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.:
Why Declarations of War Matter, Harvard National Security Journal
Zachary K. Goldman and Damon McCoy:
Deterring Financially Motivated Crime,8 J. Nat’; Security L. & Pol’y __ (2016)
Center on National Security at Fordham Law:
Case by Case: ISIS Prosecutions in the United States, March 1, 2014 — June 30, 2016
Elizabeth Rosenberg, et. al.:
The New Tools of Economic Warfare: Effects and Effectiveness of Contemporary U.S. Financial Sanctions
Anthony Rutkowski:
International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Philip B. Heymann:
An Essay on Domestic Surveillance (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.:
Lawfare in National Security Law (John Norton Moore & Robert F. Turner eds., 2016)
Gen. (ret.) Keith B. Alexander
Future of Warfare (Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee)
Jonah Force Hill:
The Growth of Data Localization Post-Snowden (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Russell Wheeler:
The Changing Composition of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and What If Anything To Do About It (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
David Kris:
On the Bulk Collection of Tangible Things (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Steven G. Bradbury:
Understanding the NSA Programs (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Nathan Myhrvold:
An Addendum from Nathan Myhrvold on Cyber
Nathan Myhrvold:
Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Statutes
Text of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended
Text of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as amended
Text of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act
Text of the Homeland Security Act: Original | As amended
Compilations
Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book
Websites
Federal Judiciary
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
U.S. Congress
House Homeland Security Committee
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Select Committee on Benghazi
House Armed Services Committee
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Homeland Security Committee
Intelligence Community
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Defense
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
Department of Homeland Security
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Other Entities
Public Interest Declassification Board
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Commission Reports
Webster Commission Report (inquiry into the Fort Hood shooting)
Aspin-Brown Commission Report (“Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence”)
PCLOB Report on the Section 702 Surveillance Program
PCLOB Report on the Section 215 Metadata Program
Executive Orders and Presidential Documents
Executive Order 12333, as amended
Other Resources
Listing of the Elements of the Intelligence Community
All Presidential Policy Directives Issued by President Obama