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Here's something you don't see every day: A leftist defense of the NSA and critique of leaker Edward Snowden.
It ran a few days ago in a publication called In These Times, which I used to read back when...
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So much violence tonight.
When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ...
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Although President Obama's visit to South Africa went off uneventfully, it is worth reporting belatedly that the Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa had filed an application with a South African c...
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We blogged earlier in the week about a motion brought by four detainees at Guantanamo----Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab, Abu Wa'el (Jihad) Dhiab, and Shaker Aamer.
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From Shane Harris, shot in Santiago de Compostela in Spain:
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The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social med...
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In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life.
It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...
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Well, I'm back from China and I'm quite glad I did not take my personal electronics with me. I thought it might be useful to summarize my experiences with internet access in China, kind of as a report f...
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Early this morning the White House released a statement by President Obama on Egypt stating, inter alia, that "Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to re...
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At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca...
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Earlier this week Ben posted on a motion, brought by a group of Guantanamo detainees and asking the District Court to preliminarily enjoin force-feeding at the detention facility. The court ordered the ...
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A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.
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DNI James Clapper has officially apologized to Congress for his "clearly erroneous" response to Senator Ron Wyden's question concerning NSA surveillance programs.
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The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....
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His long-pending motion for a preliminary injunction having been denied in May, Yemeni detainee Hani Abdullah now has noted his appeal to the D.C. Circuit.
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A sad coda to the story of Adnan Latif, the Guantánamo detainee found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012. As I mentioned in yesterday's roundup, a classified military report released on Friday confirm...
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After Russian President Vladimir Putin conditioned asylum for Edward Snowden on the American leaker's promise not to leak more classified information yesterday, Snowden withdrew his asylum request there.
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A group of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees is asking the U.S. District Court in D.C. for a preliminary injunction against forced feeding. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer has ordered the government to brie...
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Let me start with a recap of the day's dramatic events.
The Morsi regime continues to face devastating pressure. The Muslim Brotherhood's offices in Cairo were burned last night and this morning, and th...
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