#NationalSecurity

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People (2)

Ashley Gorski Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell.
Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt is the former Google chief executive turned billionaire investor and architect of US national-security artificial-intelligence policy, who chaired two Pentagon advisory bodies while privately funding the AI and defense startups those bodies promoted.

Organizations (6)

Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council Advisory council formed by Anthropic in August 2025 of former senators and defense, intelligence, nuclear and Justice Department officials, including a former deputy CIA director and NSA cybersecurity director.
Center for a New American Security Washington national-security think tank founded in 2007 by Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, funded by defense contractors, the Pentagon and Coefficient Giving, whose chief executive Richard Fontaine sits on Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust.
Center for Security and Emerging Technology Georgetown think tank on emerging technology and national security, launched in 2019 under former IARPA director Jason Matheny with 55 million dollars from Open Philanthropy, its main funder.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Court of federal district judges designated by the Chief Justice under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to hear government applications for foreign intelligence surveillance orders.
National Security Council Principal presidential forum for national security and foreign policy matters that under the Reagan administration became an operational intelligence agency running Oliver North's illegal Contra supply network.
Special Competitive Studies Project The Special Competitive Studies Project is the nonprofit think tank Eric Schmidt founded in 2021 to continue his national-security commission's work on US competition with China in artificial intelligence and emerging technology.

Concepts (4)

FISA Section 702 FISA provision authorizing warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. providers, whose 'backdoor searches' of Americans' communications courts have held require Fourth Amendment scrutiny.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Statute of October 25, 1978, requiring court orders from a specially designated panel of federal judges for electronic surveillance inside the United States to obtain foreign intelligence information.
National Security Act of 1947 Statute of July 26, 1947, that created the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Military Establishment, barring the new agency from police, subpoena, law-enforcement or internal-security functions.
Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.