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NATO switching to Cold War-style security schemes: Russias envoy to NATO
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Ukraine Crisis Tops NATO Agenda: NATO says Russia supplies militants in east Ukraine
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Brussels With NATO officials calling Russia more unpredictable now than during the cold war, alliance defense ministers on Thursday are expected to approve further measures to enhance the organization's ability to deter or respond to military threats from Moscow.
Adam Thomson, Britain's permanent representative to NATO, predicted alliance commitment that will demonstrate "NATO is strengthening its military posture in response, in particular, to the challenge that Russia's behavior represents."
As outlined by NATO officials, key decisions expected at the Brussels gathering of US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his counterparts from the other 27 NATO member countries include:
Upgrading NATO's Response Force to make it bigger, more capable, and more quickly deployable. Now 40,000-strong, it has been sent into action just once for earthquake relief 10 years ago in Pakistan and has been deemed unfit for NATO's current needs.
Getting firm commitments from some of NATO's European members for the new and fastest-moving element of the Response Force, "the spearhead," which officials say will include around 5,000 land-based troops.
Securing an official go-ahead to establish small NATO command-and-control facilities in the three Baltic republics Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria to improve coordination and planning.
Expanding a multinational headquarters in Poland to play a key role in defending NATO territory in northeastern Europe.
All this comes as hundreds of new Russian aircraft, tanks, and missiles are rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets are roaring through European skies. While most Russian economic sectors face a 10 percent cut this year as the country heads into recession, the military budget rose by 33 percent to about 3.3 trillion rubles (some $50 billion). The buildup reflects President Vladimir Putin's apparent readiness to raise the ante in a showdown with the West over Ukraine.
Douglas Lute, US ambassador to NATO, said Hagel would make a formal announcement on Thursday, but he expected the United States will deploy American military officers to all six new command and control centers in Eastern Europe and contribute as well as to the corps-level headquarters in Szczecin, western Poland.
As for the spearhead force, Lute said the United States, instead of contributing ground troops, will chip in with things such as airlift capacity to transport soldiers and gear, or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
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BRUSSELS -- With NATO officials calling Russia more unpredictable now than during the Cold War, alliance defense ministers on Thursday are expected to approve further measures to enhance the organization's ability to deter and, if necessary, respond to military threats from Moscow, officials said.
Adam Thomson, Britain's permanent representative to NATO, predicted "an encouraging degree of alliance commitment" that will demonstrate "NATO is strengthening its military posture in response in particular to the challenge that Russia's behavior represents."
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As outlined by NATO officials, key decisions expected at the Brussels gathering of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and counterparts from the other 27 NATO member countries include:
- Upgrading the existing NATO Response Force to make it bigger, more capable and more quickly deployable. Now 40,000-strong, it has been sent into action just once - for earthquake relief 10 years ago in Pakistan - and has been deemed unfit for NATO's current needs.
- Firm commitments from some of NATO's European members to act as "framework" nations for the new and fastest-moving element of the Response Force, commonly known as "the spearhead," which officials now say will include around 5,000 land-based troops.
- An official go-ahead for a proposal to establish small NATO command and control facilities in the three Baltic republics - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - and Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, to improve coordination and planning, and in case of need, help smooth the way for fast deployment of the spearhead unit and follow-on NATO reinforcements.
-Expansion of a multinational headquarters in Poland that is designed to play a key role in the defense of NATO territory in northeastern Europe.
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BRUSSELS With NATO officials calling Russia more unpredictable now than during the Cold War, alliance defense ministers on Thursday are expected to approve further measures to enhance the organization's ability to deter or respond to military threats from Moscow.
Adam Thomson, Britain's permanent representative to NATO, predicted alliance commitment that will demonstrate "NATO is strengthening its military posture in response, in particular, to the challenge that Russia's behavior represents."
As outlined by NATO officials, key decisions expected at the Brussels gathering of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his counterparts from the other 27 NATO member countries include:
- Upgrading NATO's Response Force to make it bigger, more capable and more quickly deployable. Now around 13,000 strong, it has been used to help protect the 2004 Olympics and Afghan elections, for Pakistan earthquake relief and following Hurricane Katrina.
- Getting firm commitments from some of NATO's European members for the new and fastest-moving element of the Response Force, "the spearhead," which officials say will include around 5,000 land-based troops.
- Securing an official go-ahead to establish small NATO command-and-control facilities in the three Baltic republics - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - and in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria to improve coordination and planning.
-Expanding a multinational headquarters in Poland to play a key role in defending NATO territory in northeastern Europe.
All this comes as hundreds of new Russian aircraft, tanks and missiles are rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets are roaring through European skies. While most Russian economic sectors face a 10 percent cut this year as the country heads into recession, the military budget rose by 33 percent to about 3.3 trillion rubles (some $50 billion). The buildup reflects President Vladimir Putin's apparent readiness to raise the ante in a showdown with the West over Ukraine.
Douglas Lute, U.S. ambassador to NATO, said Hagel would make a formal announcement on Thursday, but he expected the United States will deploy American military officers to all six new command and control centers in Eastern Europe and contribute as well as to the corps-level headquarters in Szczecin, western Poland.
As for the spearhead force, Lute said the United States, instead of contributing ground troops, will chip in with things such as airlift capacity to transport soldiers and gear, or intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
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The Obama administration has announced a series of modest changes in the use of private data collected for intelligence purposes, a move that underscores how little the Edward Snowden revelations have impeded the National Security Agency's exploitation of global Internet communications.
Eighteen months after the first Snowden-fueled news story and one year after President Obama delivered a major speech calling for changes to NSA data collection, the White House on Tuesday said it had tightened rules governing how the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies use Internet and phone communications of foreigners collected by the NSA. But the bulk collection would continue as robustly as ever, the announcement made clear.
Where once the data could be used for any reason and held forever, now it must fall into six specific threat categories and irrelevant data is to be purged after five years. But the categories are broad enough that an intelligence officer could find justification to use a piece of information on a foreigner if he or she feels the need. The information need only have some relevance to counter-espionage, counterterrorism, counter-proliferation, cybersecurity, countering threats to U.S. or allied armed forces or personnel; and combating transnational criminal threats.
The new policy also imposed more supervision over how intelligence agencies use the communications of Americans they acquire without individual warrants, making clear, for example, that such data may only be used to prosecute someone for "serious crimes" such as a murder or kidnapping, or national security crimes.
But the changes stopped well short of the recommendations of a presidential task force, including one that data collected by the NSA without warrants should never be used against an American in court, and another that such data should only be searched using the name of an American with a specific court order naming that person. Robert Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in a conference call with reporters that those ideas were deemed too restrictive.
The result is that the private communications of Americans collected without warrants are still circulating around the government.
Moreover, Mr. Obama's most significant proposal in response to the Snowden leaks - to end the NSA's bulk collection of domestic calling records - has not been enacted. The president wants Congress to pass a law, and Congress has balked. The NSA is still collecting the records, even though Mr. Obama could stop the practice on his own.
"There's pressure to say we're doing something, and that leads to some symbolic changes or tweaks, but there would be a great reluctance to forswear access to intelligence like this," said Richard Betts, a professor at Columbia's School of International & Public Affairs and a former staffer in the 1970s congressional investigations of intelligence agencies.
"The reforms are far from sufficient and they really do tinker around the edges," said Neema Singh Guliani, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "It's clear the administration is going to continue to stand by a lot of the mass surveillance policies."
In a statement, White House counter terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco said U.S. digital spying "must take into account that all persons have legitimate privacy interests in the handling of their personal information. At the same time, we must ensure that our Intelligence Community has the resources and authorities necessary for the United States to advance its national security and foreign policy interests and to protect its citizens and the citizens of its allies and partners from harm."
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The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of modest steps to strengthen privacy protections for Americans and foreigners in U.S. intelligence-gathering, including an end to the indefinite gag order on certain subpoenas issued to companies for customers personal data.
At the same time, U.S. intelligence officials said they were still hoping to fulfill a goal President Obama set a year ago: ending the National Security Agencys collection of millions of Americans phone records.
It was the revelation of that NSA program in June 2013 by former agency contractor Edward Snowden that set off a controversy over the scope of the governments surveillance powers and that led Obama in a speech last year to announce a number of reforms to intelligence-gathering practices.
The centerpiece of that speech was his call for an end to the NSAs bulk phone records collection, with the aim of devising an alternative approach that would preserve the agencys access to the data for counterterrorism purposes. But Congress failed last year to pass legislation to achieve that.
The underlying authority for the collection will expire June 1. The administration fears the expiration would end not only the program but also the FBIs ability to obtain a broad range of information on a standard much lower than probable cause.
While privacy advocates believe the White House could unilaterally end the NSA program, administration officials are calling on Congress to pass legislation to do so.
Im hopeful that in the four months we have until this expires, well be able to get legislation passed, Robert S. Litt, the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in a phone call with reporters. Officials are not yet making contingency plans in the event it doesnt, he said.
The steps announced Tuesday by the administration are aimed at increasing transparency and privacy in an effort to rebuild public trust that was eroded in the wake of the Snowden disclosures. At the same time, Litt said, officials want to maintain operational capabilities needed to protect the nation and its allies.
Under the new measures, the FBI will lift indefinite gag orders on companies that receive administrative subpoenas, known as national security letters. NSLs are issued by a senior law enforcement official without a judges sign-off and require the recipient to turn over data such as a customers credit-card transactions, billing records and data on when and to whom an e-mail was sent or a phone call made. The gag order will now be dropped after three years or when an investigation ends, whichever comes first.
The three-year limit on NSL gag orders is a significant concession by the FBI, but it does not meet the constitutional standard, said Gregory Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy & Technology. Instead, the FBI should have to go to court and prove a likelihood of harm if disclosure was allowed from the start.
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In this weeks episode, our guest is Rebecca Richards, NSAs director of privacy and civil liberties. We ask the tough questions: Is her title an elaborate hoax or is she the busiest woman on the planet? How long will it be before privacy groups blame the Seattle Seahawks loss on NSAs policy of intercepting everything? How do you tell an extroverted NSA engineer from an introvert? And, more seriously, now that acting within the law isnt apparently enough, how can an intelligence agency assure Americans that it shares their values without exposing all its capabilities?
In the weeks news, Jason Weinstein, Michael Vatis and I explore the DEAs license plate collection program and what it means, among other things, for future Supreme Court jurisprudence on location and the fourth amendment. We take on the WikiLeaks-Google flap and conclude that theres less there than meets the eye.
Jason celebrates a festival of FTC news. The staff report on the Internet of Things provokes a commissioner to dissent from feel-good privacy bromides. The FTC data security scalp count grows to 53, with more on the way. We discover that the FTC has aspirations to become the Federal Telecommunications Commission, regulating telecommunications throttling as well as cramming and apparently forcing the FCC into the business of regulating hotels. To be fair, we find ourselves rooting for the Commission as it brings the hammer down on a revenge porn site.
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky announced Wednesday night that he will vote against confirming Loretta Lynch for attorney general because of differences over civil liberties issues, declaring that her views ride roughshod on our constitutional rights.
Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, would be the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general.
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Paul, a likely 2016 presidential candidate who has made criminal justice reform one of his signature issues, said in a statement: Mrs. Lynch has a track-record of violating the individual freedoms granted to us by our Constitution. She considers civil asset forfeiture to be a useful tool, while I consider it to be an infringement on the Fifth Amendment. She remains non-committal on the legality of drone strikes against American citizens, while I believe such strikes unequivocally violate rights granted to us by the Sixth Amendment.
Mrs. Lynch also supports President [Barack] Obamas calls for executive amnesty, which I vehemently oppose. The Attorney General must operate independent of politics, independent of the president and under the direction of the Constitution. I cannot support a nominee, like Mrs. Lynch, who rides roughshod on our Constitutional rights.
Paul first announced his opposition on Fox News On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
The Kentucky senator appears to be the first Senate Republican who does not sit on the powerful Judiciary Committee, which is taking up Lynchs nomination to be the nations most powerful law enforcement official, to oppose her confirmation.
Several GOP senators on the committee have indicated they will oppose Lynch based on her support for the presidents executive actions on immigration. They include Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, another potential contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas the majority whip, and a member of the Judiciary Committee announced his opposition earlier Wednesday.
While she has an impressive record as United States attorney, as you know, she will become the chief advocate for the presidents policies as attorney general, the Republican said. Her testimony expressing support for the presidents unconstitutional executive action, and for her support for a number of the presidents other policies, make it impossible for me to vote for her nomination.
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If a bipartisan group of legislators have their way, Minnesotans will vote on an electronic data privacy constitutional amendment in 2016.
The amendment would require law enforcement agencies to get a warrant if they want to look through your emails or other electronic communications. (Read the bill for yourselfhere.)
By contrast, the current practice, as described to Fox 9 by Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the Minnesota ACLU, allows law enforcement to "take your cell phone, dump all your contents and picture and take all of it, and they can use it to build a case against you."
"But if they had Fourth Amendment protections, you would have the ability in some cases to block the government from downloading your data, and in other cases to ensure that the government does it properly," Samuelson adds.
One of the authors of the Senate version of the bill, Branden Petersen (R-Andover), says the reason he thinks a constitutional amendment is more appropriate in this case than simply passing a law has to do with the distinction between "guiding governing principles" and specific cases.
"Statutory-focused legislation is very specific in dealing with specific instances, and it's not open to interpretation in terms of what it means, whereas constitutional language is much more universal," Petersen says. "In the existing Fourth Amendment, you have the right [to be protected] from unreasonable searches and seizures of your effects in your home, but it doesn't say what 'effects' means in all its iterations. That's not how the constitution is written, and of course we interpret those principles in a whole host of different ways, as we've seen throughout our history."
Petersen argues it's time for the Fourth Amendment to be brought into the digital age.
"If we were all going to start Minnesota today and write the constitution, I think it's pretty clear that electronic data would be included," Petersen says. "And then, of course, all law flows downhill from the constitution, so if you're going to get it right in the first place, you should start with original governing principles and then create laws that are consistent with those principles. We don't start debating statute without a constitutional basis to do so, or at least we ought not do so."
"If the founders were here today, of course electronic data would be protected, because it tells every intimate detail of your life," Petersen adds.
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LINCOLN Granting military spouses the right to carry concealed handguns in Nebraska triggered a debate over gay marriage Tuesday in the Nebraska Legislature.
Current law allows nonresident military members to apply for a concealed gun permit without having to first live in Nebraska for 180 days to establish residency. A bill advanced from the first round of debate on a 37-4 vote would waive the residency period for military spouses who want to apply for gun permits.
Sen. Paul Schumacher of Columbus, however, questioned whether the bill would allow same-sex spouses to obtain gun permits given Nebraskas constitutional ban on gay marriage. He proposed an amendment so the gun privilege would apply to anyone receiving the federal benefits of a military spouse.
The Department of Defense extended benefits to same-sex spouses in 2013 following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Is not the Second Amendment sex blind? Color blind? Schumacher said. What great evil would come from saying a partner of somebody in the military is entitled to exercise their Second Amendment rights to carry a concealed weapon in this state?
The amendment was adopted by a vote of 38-0.
Sen. John Murante of Gretna, who did not vote for or against the bill, expressed concern that the Schumacher amendment could be used to challenge Nebraskas ban on same-sex marriage.
I think we just recognized gay marriage, he said moments after the vote. We are now using the federal governments standard for who receives marriage benefits.
Sen. Dave Bloomfield of Hoskins, who sponsored the measure, said he does not think the amendment language will open up the states marriage law to attack. The state constitution definitively says gay marriage is not recognized within Nebraskas borders, he added.
The forms that a gun permit applicant fill out ask nothing about the gender of an applicants spouse, Bloomfield said.
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