Assembled here are protective orders used by federal judges in criminal prosecutions in national security cases. Among the most important goals of the protective orders here is the protection of classified information.

January 2014 Report from Judge Bates Regarding Possible FISA Changes

John D. Bates

January 13, 2014

Letter from FISA Court Presiding Judge Walton to Senate Judiciary Committee

July 29, 2013

National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges [Superseded]

Robert Timothy Reagan

June 25, 2013

Cases involving national security often pose unusual and challenging case-management issues for the courts.

Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Classified Information Security Officers, Second Edition

Robert Timothy Reagan

January 1, 2013

Most courts come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at all, but when they do, they are faced with the dilemma of how to protect government secrets in the context of an otherwise public proceeding.

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National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges, Seventh Edition

Report and Recommendation on Afghanistan's Central Bank's Assets

National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges, Sixth Edition

Letter from Judge Bates Regarding Proposed USA FREEDOM Act

Letter from Judge Bates Regarding Proposed USA FREEDOM Act

National Security Prosecutions: Protective Orders

January 2014 Report from Judge Bates Regarding Possible FISA Changes

Letter from FISA Court Presiding Judge Walton to Senate Judiciary Committee

National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges [Superseded]

Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Classified Information Security Officers, Second Edition

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