As expected, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has now issued its analysis of the Section 702 surveillance done by the NSA (and, as revealed earlier this week, passed on to the FBI and CIA). You may recall that, back in January, the PCLOB issued a scathing report about the NSA‘s Section 215 bulk data collection efforts, calling the program both illegal and unconstitutional. In contrast, the report on the 702 program is much more muted — claiming that the program is constitutional, legal and effective as a counterterrorism tool. Like the previous report, this new one is highly readable — and I recommend reading it in its entirety. However, the legal analysis is disappointing compared to the earlier report.