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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Amy J. Sennett
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The Lawfare Book Review is pleased to announce that this weekend, we are publishing not one but two reviews of John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press 2012; the ...
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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece...
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Among the questions raised by the yesterday's FISC story is this: what has the executive branch said to members of Congress, regarding the collection of Verizon customers' telephony metadata under Sectio...
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Like everyone else I've been following the breaking NSA stories. [And, as an aside, almost lost in the clutter is the Guardian's next revelation of PPD-20, the Administration's Top Secret cyber operatio...
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Happy(?) Friday. Buckle your seat belts, folks, because today's edition is a force to be reckoned with.
President Obama spent about 15 minutes earlier today speaking about the FISA Court order leak and ...
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[Editor's Note: Carrie Cordero is a frequent Lawfare guest poster, a former Justice Department official, and currently Director of National Security Studies at Georgetown University Law Center]
As some...
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The New York Times reports on President Obama’s first public comments on the NSA and FBI surveillance programs. Updated: Check out the C-SPAN video.
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The following roundup is a running list of pertinent statements and quotes from lawmakers in Congress on the FISA order calling for Verizon to turn over customers' phone records, as well as the news abou...
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The House Armed Services Committee was hard at work marking up the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year. We have a transcript of the debate over Democratic Congressman Adam Smi...
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Here it is. The full text---which addresses last night's data mining stories in the press---is as follows:
DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
The Guardian and The Washingto...
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ODNI has released a statement commenting on the Verizon story. It underscores my point just now about the importance of minimization procedures, but also reminds me that it is perhaps even more importan...
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Four comments on today's Washington Post story (and the Verizon story on domestic and foreign data collection):
First, today's Post story reminded me of this very interesting 2008 post from David Kris. ...
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White House Deputy Principal Press Secretary Josh Earnest spoke to the press on Air Force One on the way to Mooresville, NC, where President Obama is set to make an announcement today on education. The c...
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As I was getting on the long flight home from Thailand, Wells and I realized that I had made a considerable error in my earlier post on the NSA data collection effort. In reading the FISA Court's order, ...
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It had been a big NSA and FBI news day already. Along came this Washington Post story, which made it even bigger.
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Let’s begin with the news everyone did a huge double take when they came across: the NSA’s collection of Verizon customers’ phone records for a three month period.
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That's the gist of this Politico report, which adds new details about congressional oversight and the FISC order directed at metadata for Verizon customers' communications. Some members have expressed c...
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The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a new Task Force Report on Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet. The Task Force was co-chaired by former DNI John Negroponte and f...
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