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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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The big news last week in NSA reform was the White House’s announcement of its plan to end the NSA’s metadata program, but it wasn’t the only news. The bipartisan leadership of the House Intelligence Com...
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I'm very pleased to report the latest venture of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas (co-sponsored by the Strauss Center and the Clements Center): a conference addressing the con...
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In a post at Just Security on Thursday, my friend Ryan Goodman takes issue with my testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, in which I said that even if the U.S.
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Israelis are a politically vocal bunch. So I wasn’t particularly surprised to encounter a mass of protestors gathered before the Prime Minister’s house, as I meandered through Jerusalem’s affluent Talbi...
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Editor's Note: As the U.S. military draws down in Afghanistan, the large-scale conventional military component of the “war on terror” may be at an end. Yet Al Qaeda is tied to many of the insurgencies cu...
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Yesterday, John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice, gave a keynote address on cybersecurity at American University’s Washington College of Law as...
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Friday brought us three newly declassified FISC rulings.
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The document was released late yesterday afternoon. Here 'tis:
Earlier this year in a speech at the Department of Justice, President Obama announced a transition that would end the Section 215 bulk tele...
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Let’s start with this week’s big terrorism trial news, the speedy conviction of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, in federal court. Ritika noted the verdict as it happened and linked to ...
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In yesterday’s New York Times, Ben Weiser reported that Abu Ghaith’s case has renewed the “debate” over civilian terrorism trials.
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Over at Just Security, Marty Lederman has an interesting piece about a Guantanamo case the Supreme Court has relisted three times for consideration at conference. He writes:
The Supreme Court has reliste...
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Russian troops are amassing and gathering at the Ukrainian border. The Washington Post reports that U.S.
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The ACLU is declaring President Obama's announcement today of his proposal for reform of the 215 program "a major step in the right direction and a victory for privacy." Jameel Jaffer, writing over at Ju...
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Jon Kamp and Jennifer Levitz of the Wall Street Journal kick us off today with a report from the House Committee on Homeland Security about the missed opportunities to apprehend Tamerlan Tsarnaev before ...
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Here it is, in full; an excerpt containing a sketch of the White House's proposed legislation is below.
Consistent with this directive, DOJ and the IC developed options designed to meet the criteria the ...
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Attorney General Eric Holder released the statement below:
This verdict is a major milestone in the government’s unrelenting efforts to pursue justice against those involved with the September 11 attacks.
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Suliman Abu Gaith was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans today. The Al Qaeda spokesman was also convicted of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to provide material support to ...
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Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the story:
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the most senior adviser to Osama bin Laden to be tried in a civilian United States court since the Sept. 11 attacks, was convict...
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Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports that at last week’s Sources and Secrets conference, NYT reporter James Risen, who is fighting a subpoena for information in the Jeffrey Sterling trial, made these remark...
