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Brennan Center
Last updated 2026-08-15 · benchmark measured 2026-08-15 — deterministic & reproducible
A Brennan Center event examining the FBI's post-9/11 shift toward domestic intelligence gathering.
Is Brennan Center production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Brennan Center 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Brennan Center (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 44/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 55/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 68/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 47 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
product account @BrennanCenter
Who it's for
Activists · Policy advocates · Citizens interested in civil liberties · Law enforcement observers
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