The prosecutorial discretion built into the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is already controversial in the blogosphere, where leftie admirers of Aaron Swartz and libbie opponents of prosecutorial discretion have made common cause against the law. And indeed it’s true; forfeiture laws aside, the CFAA is among the most flexible tools in a federal prosecutor’s […]
Archive | August, 2013
So Where Should Released Convicts Live?
I recently read an interesting tort case, Stephens v. Greensboro Properties, Ltd. (Ga. Ct. App. 2001). Starting in July 1996, Stanley Scott lived in Greensboro Properties’ low-income housing development apartment complex. He also worked there as a maintenance man, “paid based on the number of hours he spent doing maintenance work,” and seemed to be […]
Critiquing FISA Reforms
I ended up testifying again on FISA reform yesterday, this time to Senate Judiciary. While mostly repeating my past testimony, I added a critique of two recent proposals for reforming FISA: One idea is to declassify FISA court opinions. Another is to appoint outside lawyers with security clearances who can argue against the government. The […]