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Earlier this year I started an episodic feature on new technology and how it might impact national security. My first offering was on a life logging system known as Memoto. At the time, I noted some in...
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Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at Brookings on Friday about surveillance law.
Jane Chong and I had a great time previewing and then recapping the oral ar...
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Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear ...
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It's a big news day in national security law for all kinds of reasons---one being today's opinion from the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Sterling.
That, of course, is the prosecution against a fo...
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Wells hosted Bob Litt, general counsel to the ODNI, this morning at Brookings, for an address about privacy and intelligence collection practices. Check out the C-SPAN video.
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Bob Litt, general counsel to the DNI, is speaking at the Brookings Institution at this hour on "Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection." His prepared remarks ar...
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When the Verizon telephony metadata issue first broke, I posed the following question about the government's legal position:
Because we have only the order itself, not the application that underlies it, ...
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Tomorrow morning, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments on the government's motion to dismiss in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. The lawsuit was filed l...
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"Crossing Lines" is a new NBC cop series this season that features ... well, here's the plot description at Wikipedia:
Based in The Hague, a fictionalized version of the International Criminal Court's sp...
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I write, speak, and testify periodically about the reciprocal importance for the United States and U.S.
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DNI General Counsel Robert S. Litt will deliver an address on privacy, technology, and national security at Brookings tomorrow---register here.
Fall out from yesterday's House Judiciary Committee hearin...
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Judge Lewis Kaplan's excellent Second Circuit opinion in Hedges yesterday should end the controversy over whether the 2012 NDAA expands or merely codifies the government's AUMF detention authority---thou...
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This event tomorrow morning is sure to be timely and of great interest to Lawfarers in the area:
Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection
An Address by General C...
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Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, will speak at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Brookings Institution's Saul-Zilkha auditorium. Unsurprisingly given recent events, Litt's ...
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said today that any cut-off of foreign assistance to Egypt that might be required by U.S.
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The order entering the stay, by Circuit Judges Rogers, Brown, and Kavanaugh, is here. It essentially pauses enforcement of last week's order, by Judge Royce Lamberth, that partially invalidated certain ...
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Hadas Gold of Politico reports that Sen.
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The opinion, which I've only now begun to skim, is here. From the decision's opening paragraphs:
On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...
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One of the most illuminating documents Edward Snowden has disclosed is this draft 2009 report by the NSA inspector general, which the Guardian released late last month.
The report, beyond the brief flur...
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Judge Rosemary Collyer today denied the three remaining motions for a preliminary injunction against force feeding at Guantanamo, concluding that she lacked jurisdiction over the motions.
