The countrys borders as a way to protect u. S. Citizens privacy. So Higher Standards have accompanied the collection of information on citizens on domestic soil under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. The problem is that our communications no longer stay window midwest i can bounds. So in 2008 the government made a strong argument that it didnt make sense any more that if communications outside the United States, if you had a bad guy in london calling a bad guy in paris, traditionally under fisa you dont need to go to the court to get a warrant but now if those same two actors use email and it happens to go through the United States, the government has to go to a court to intercept those communications. A very strong argument for 2008 fisa amendments act. The problem is it works two ways. Now if im sitting in this room and i email jen and it goes internationally, now it can be collected. So data is not territorial and not bound by countries borders in the way traditionally wev
Another longer, monograph coming on the north caucuses with the u. S. Army war colleges looking in depth at the military and security aspects and the history of the cob conflicts in north caucuses. But as he mentioned, this is now a conflict not just in the russian context, not just in the regional context of the north caucuses, not just in the russian statewide context but it has global connections. Just recently, a salafi cleric issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, justifying in the in vol ct the attacks fwmbings enbrad and exchanging that attacks on the russian civilian population is justified because the population is not standing up against the russian government when its persecuting muslims. Therefore, he says, any russian citizen, and he doesnt even he mentioned christians, orthodox, but doesnt distinguish the probably 20 million russian citizens who happen to be muslim, that these civilians, women, children, and be ly, are all allowed to murdered in terrorist attacks. Before tha