Professor Clark D. Cunningham
W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics
Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia
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Articles for The Conversation
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Clark D. Cunningham,Misleading Statements on Russia Meeting Recall Clinton’s Impeachment, The Conversation (August 3, 2017)
https://theconversation.com/misleading-statements-on-russia-meeting-recall-clintons-impeachment-82037
Republications include:
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/06/misleading-statements-on-russia-meeting-recall-clintons-impeachment_partner/
http://observer.com/2017/08/misleading-statements-on-russia-meeting-recall-clintons-impeachment-donald-trump-robert-mueller-grand-jury-presidency/
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Misleading-statements-on-Russia-meeting-recall-11733313.php
11,400 + readers as of August 28, 2017
Clark D. Cunningham, “Did Sessions and Trump conspire to obstruct justice?” The Conversation (June 14, 2017)
https://theconversation.com/did-sessions-and-trump-conspire-to-obstruct-justice-79388
Republications include:
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/did-sessions-and-trump-conspire-to-obstruct-justice_partner/
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/did-sessions-and-trump-conspire-to-obstruct-justice/
http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/did-justice-trump-conspire-to-create-a-false-story-on-why-comey-was-fired-117061500185_1.html
66,900+ readers as of August 28, 2017
Clark D. Cunningham, Comey’s firing may end other investigations into 2016 election, The Conversation (May 11, 2017)
https://theconversation.com/comeys-firing-may-end-other-investigations-into-2016-election-77532
Republications include:
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5914679be4b016248243f21e
www.rawstory.com/2017/05/comeys-firing-may-end-other-investigations-into-2016-election/
19,000+ readers as of August 28, 2017
Clark D. Cunningham, Restoring transparency and fairness to the FBI investigation of Clinton emails, The Conversation (Oct. 31, 2016)
https://theconversation.com/restoring-transparency-and-fairness-to-the-fbi-investigation-of-clinton-emails-67967
Republications include:
www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-us/restoring-transparency-an_b_12746480.html
bigstory.ap.org/article/358c8b1596af4054aa7f00fba9a052b9/restoring-transparency-and-fairness-fbi-investigation
www.rawstory.com/2016/11/restoring-transparency-and-fairness-to-the-fbi-investigation-of-clinton-emails/
16,000+ readers as of August 28, 2017
Clark D. Cunningham, In getting ‘new’ Clinton emails, did the FBI violate the Constitution?, The Conversation (Oct. 29, 2016)
https://theconversation.com/in-getting-new-clinton-emails-did-the-fbi-violate-the-constitution-67906
Republications include:
www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-us/in-getting-new-clinton-em_b_12713842.html
www.rawstory.com/2016/10/in-getting-the-new-clinton-emails-did-the-fbi-violate-the-constitution/
107,900+ readers as of August 28, 2017
Clark D. Cunningham, Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know, The Conversation (Sep. 21, 2016)
https://theconversation.com/feds-we-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know-65620
Republications include:
newrepublic.com/article/137027/feds-can-read-email-youd-never-know
www.salon.com/2016/09/22/when-the-hackers-are-the-feds-the-government-may-be-reading-your-emails-without-you-ever-knowing-about-it/
www.rawstory.com/2016/09/feds-we-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know/
www.upi.com/Top_News/Opinion/2016/09/22/Feds-We-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know/3611474554449/
bigstory.ap.org/article/1b485389d3c842e1ae8ca353ca14cc2f/feds-we-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know
101,300+ readers as of August 28, 2017
The Conversation essays published in September and October 2016 draw on research published in
Clark D. Cunningham, Apple and the American Revolution: Remembering Why We Have the Fourth Amendment, 126 Yale Law Journal Forum 218 (Oct. 26, 2016)
This article provides a concise history of events prior to the Revolutionary War that led to the adoption of the Fourth Amendment and relates that history to current controversies over the use of search warrants to obtain electronically stored information from cell phones and email accounts in the cloud, in particular the FBI’s attempt to get court orders forcing Apple to create and give to the government software eliminating the user privacy and security features of the iPhone and the pending Microsoft lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging email search gag orders. Compelling comparisons are drawn between the infamous Lord Halifax general warrants used in 1763 to seize all of a suspect’s private papers and search them for evidence of seditious libel and warrants currently used by the federal government to seize the entire contents of a cell phone or of a cloud account and then conduct review of every item of digital data. The essay concludes with legislative proposals to extend existing statutory safeguards for wiretapping and electronic surveillance to search warrants for electronically stored information, and provide notice and a right to a hearing before such warrants are executed.
Professor Cunningham has created a companion website of reference materials on the FBI v Apple controversy, the Microsoft v DOJ lawsuit, other related cases, and Congressional initiatives regarding searches of electronically stored information: www.clarkcunningham.org/Apple/.