Robert Turner

University of Virginia Law School

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Professor at the Virginia Law School and Associate Director of its Center for National Security Law; counsel to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board during the Reagan Administration; former chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security

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Britain's Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post broke the stories last week about the National Security Agency collecting metadata on virtually every phone call made in this…

Obama, Congress and the Surveillance State

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President Bush may be a struggling lame duck, but Democrats can still be out-maneuvered if they think they'll be called soft on terrorism.

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