Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

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The Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies was a review group formed by the Director of National Intelligence of the United States in light of the global surveillance disclosures of 2013. In December 2013, the five-member group produced a public report.

Formation

On August 12, 2013, President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum instructing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, to form a "Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies". Obama instructed that "The Review Group will assess whether, in light of advancements in communications technologies, the United States employs its technical collection capabilities in a manner that optimally protects our national security and advances our foreign policy while appropriately accounting for other policy considerations, such as the risk of unauthorized disclosure and our need to maintain the public trust."

The memorandum called for an interim report within 60 days of establishment and a final report by December 15, 2013.[1]

Membership

The group included former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, former Acting Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell, University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey Stone, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget Peter Swire.[2][3]

Report

The 300-page report, entitled "Liberty and Security in a Changing World", was released on December 12, 2013. It contained over 40 recommendations.[4]

Reactions

The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a statement criticizing the report, saying "we’re disappointed that the recommendations suggest a path to continue untargeted spying. Mass surveillance is still heinous, even if private company servers are holding the data instead of government data centers."[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "DNI Clapper Announces Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies". Dni.gov. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
  2. ↑ "Review Group". Dni.gov. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
  3. ↑ Harding, Luke (2014). The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man. New York: Vintage Books. p. 288. ISBN 9780804173520. OCLC 870337274. The panel's chair was Michael Morrell, Obama's former deputy CIA director; two other members included Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism co-ordinator under Clinton and George W Bush, and Peter Swire, Clinton's privacy director. The panel enjoyed the lugubrious name, 'Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies'.
  4. ↑ Stone, Geoffrey R. (2014-01-18). "Barack Obama's NSA Speech: Here's How I Grade His Reforms". New Republic. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  5. ↑ "EFF Statement on President's Review Group's NSA Report | Electronic Frontier Foundation". Eff.org. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
  6. ↑ "A Critique of the Recoommendations by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologies" (PDF). Centerforsecuritypolicy.org. Retrieved 2014-02-10.

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