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At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr...
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On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence declassified eight documents related to NSA activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata.
The documents---all declarations by NSA offi...
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Surveillance first:
At President Obama's end-of-year press conference on Friday, he promised a "pretty definitive statement" on proposed NSA reforms after the holiday.
As we noted Friday, the latest Sno...
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a...
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I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ...
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The President answered press questions this afternoon on a variety of subjects, including NSA surveillance and Edward Snowden.
The Washington Post has a transcript, the most NSA-relevant bits of which I...
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The leadership of the Senate and House intelligence committees released a statement in response to the President's Review Group's findings.
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Here it is. From its opening paragraphs:
Good afternoon, and warm tidings during this holiday season—a deeply meaningful season for so many peoples around the globe—to all of you.
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I've only skimmed this unsurprising ruling from the panel, which affirms the district court's dismissal of the detainee's suit against the military commissions' Convening Authority.
From its opening:
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More from Pandora’s Snowden’s Box: newly leaked documents by the Guardian and Der Spiegel give a much wider picture of the scope of the American and British surveillance practices. The documents contain ...
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Pre-Snowden, the USG faced few constraints in its collection and analysis other than what the law imposed and what its large budget permitted. Within these constraints, the USG could focus almost solely...
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The Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies is, like many such reports, a fruitcake. It’s chock full of tasty cherries---and other bits that are nuts. You h...
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It’s the final episode of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—our special series of podcast interviews we've been running this week with senior NSA officials.
In the fift...
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While the Report of the President’s Review Group (see Ritika’s post here and Ben’s here) has already generated classic Washington-style buzz because of its criticism of the NSA’s bulk collection of metad...
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This latest pair of repatriations brings the total number of detainees transferred to eight in 2013. Noor Uthman Muhammed pleaded guilty in a military commission in 2011, and has since completed his sent...
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The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation issued a report yesterday on the data broker industry. The Committee looked into nine of the biggest brokers, and took testimony from various ...
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Earlier this week, Military Judge James Pohl, the presiding judge at the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al, issued three orders that relate to secrecy in the military commissions. ...
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The military judge ascends the bench at Guantanamo; our proceedings resume, with Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi having absented themselves. Did they do so voluntarily? Yes, according to the pr...
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It's Thursday here at Fort Meade's little CCTV hovel---from which a skeleton crew will observe, remotely and in nearly real time, pre-trial motions proceedings in the 9/11 case.
Look for dispatches thro...
