Working to ensure that efforts by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism appropriately safeguard privacy and civil liberties.
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It was an honor to host Beth Williams, Board Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, for a fireside chat this week. She spoke about her previous work at DOJ and PCLOB’s mission. Thanks to Ms. Williams and Professor Kathryn Judge for the great discussion!
PCLOB has released a summary of its new classified report entitled "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Threat Review and Prioritization Process." Read it here: bit.ly/4Avfm57
Board Member Williams has released a statement on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America. Read it here: bit.ly/4xE720p
Board Member Beth Williams has a new @WSJ op-ed, urging Congress to reauthorize FISA Section 702. Read it here: on.wsj.com/4sa2Nqi
PCLOB has published a new FISA Section 702 report. It concludes that 702 remains one of the country’s most valuable tools for countering critical foreign threats, and that recent reforms are having positive privacy/civil liberties effects. Read it here: bit.ly/PCLOB702Report
Board Member Beth Williams has a new @FoxNews op-ed out this morning examining America's counterterrorism efforts 25 years after 9/11. Read it here: bit.ly/AmericanSecurity
ICYMI you can watch PCLOB's 12/2 virtual public forum on debanking at bit.ly/DebankingVideo and review the transcript at bit.ly/DebankingTranscript. Our thanks to @SamuelBrownback, @AH_Gaiser, @dlibsen and UChicago's Dr. Anil Kashyap for an outstanding event.
Amb. @SamuelBrownback will keynote PCLOB's 12/2 debanking public forum. He'll be followed by an outstanding panel talk featuring ADF's Alexandra Gaiser, Americans for Free Markets' David Ibsen, and University of Chicago's Dr. Anil Kashyap. Read more here: bit.ly/BrownbackKeynote
PCLOB has released the first comprehensive government report on the FBI's use of open source information in support of its counterterrorism efforts. Read it here: bit.ly/FBIOpenSource
PCLOB is seeking public comments to inform its upcoming public forum on debanking. Details on how to submit your comments can be found in the Federal Register: bit.ly/DebankingComments
PCLOB has just released its FY2025 Agency Financial Report. For the 7th straight year, the Board received an unmodified “clean” opinion from the auditors, with zero new findings or required adjustments to the financial statements. Read the report here: bit.ly/FY2025AFR
PCLOB has released a statement on its review of the redress mechanism established by Section 3 of Executive Order 14086. Read it here: bit.ly/14086Redress
PCLOB is hosting a virtual public forum on Tuesday, December 2nd to discuss how financial tools historically used by the government to fight terrorism may impact Americans' privacy and civil liberties. Read more here: bit.ly/DebankingForum
PCLOB retweeted
@PCLOB_GOV’s Beth Williams urges Congress to guarantee that the National Counterterrorism Center remains focused on foreign threats and not against Americans in pursuit of domestic objectives.
PCLOB Member Beth Williams has a new op-ed in Lawfare arguing that the National Counterterrorism Center should not compile and disseminate Americans’ information in the name of fighting domestic terrorism.
Read it here: bit.ly/Lawfare-NCTC-op-ed
PCLOB has released a report examining the IC’s implementation of Executive Order 14086 through the adoption of appropriate policies and procedures, supplemental guidance, and training by relevant IC elements. Read it here: bit.ly/PCLOB14086Report
PCLOB has released a new staff report reviewing TSA's use of facial recognition technology.
Link to the report here: bit.ly/TSAreport.
Link to the press release here: bit.ly/TSApressrelease
Board Member Beth A. Williams delivered a keynote address at this year's State of the Net conference in Washington, DC. You can read her remarks discussing our agency and some of the key issues it plans to address here: bit.ly/WilliamsSOTN2025
#SOTN2025 @SOTN
PCLOB has released a report on the Terrorist Watchlist. Read it here: bit.ly/TerroristWatchlist
PCLOB has a new report on the privacy and civil liberties impacts to U.S. persons from the use of certain federal initiatives to counter threats posed by foreign racially motivated violent extremist (RMVE) organizations. Read it here: bit.ly/ForeignRMVE
