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This just in from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court---in the person of its Presiding Judge, Reggie Walton, and regarding data retention issues. These have arisen, of course, in light of the FIS...
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Last week I noted an interesting exchange on AUMF renewal (and life in a post-AUMF world) during Michael Lumpkin's March 11 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. When Lumpkin appeared be...
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President Obama has expanded sanctions on Russia just as President Putin formally completed Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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I’ve already written at some length about the D.C. Circuit’s decision last month in Aamer v.
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Edward Snowden gave a TED talk at TED2014:
After it, TED folks offered NSA a chance to respond---and Rick Ledgett, deputy director of the agency, showed up by video conference to answer quest...
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Criticizing the US stance on human rights treaties is practically an international sport, as evidenced by the bruising reception the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) gave to a US delegation last week. As...
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I'm sorry to report that Ambassador Bob Strauss has passed. He lived an extraordinary life, punctuated by an astonishing array of accomplishments and contributions to the greater good. I'm deeply proud...
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The Australian government recently announced that satellite images indicate objects in the southern Indian Ocean that may be connected to the still-missing flight MH370. Aircraft and vessels have been re...
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Secrecy---of the sort that typically shrouds cyber-defense and cyber-attack capabilities and doctrine---complicates the development of international norms. Secrecy makes it difficult to engage in sustai...
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Today an interagency review panel will hear, by video hookup, the case of Guantanamo detainee Ali Ahmad al-Razihi. The issue is whether the Yemeni's further detention is necessary to protect a continuin...
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Here is the video for the PCLOB's day-long hearing yesterday on Section 702 surveillance. For some reason, they are not embeddable (Memo to CSPAN: grrrrrrr). But here they are: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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By now, readers of newspapers in the United States are versed---at least generally---in the Crimean situation: arguments regarding the Crimea referendum’s legality, the advance of Russian troops onto Cr...
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The Privacy an Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been holding a Public Hearing on the 702 program since 8.45am this morning. Witnesses (and links to written testimony) are listed below:
Panel I: Gover...
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The Malaysian government has turned to the United States for help in solving the mystery of missing flight MH370. The New York Times reports that Malaysia has asked the F.B.I. to help recover data from a...
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From the New York Times a few days ago: "Since the first Russian forces infiltrated Crimea on Feb. 28, Ms. Merkel, 59, has spoken to Mr. Putin, 61, at least four times on the phone, her spokesman says."
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As I wrote earlier this week, the big news recently in cyberspace was the announcement by the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, that it planned to effect...
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In an earlier post regarding MH370, I wondered why it was that transponders on airplanes were still capable of being turned off. I feel rather justified to realize that I’m not the only one asking the q...
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This week’s podcast covers the latest on NSA. We mock EFF overriding one of the privacy protections in NSA’s metadata program by killing the 5-year retention limit. We puzzle over the New York Times st...
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A disturbing news item: it appears that Russian soldiers have killed at least one Ukrainian soldier at a Ukrainian military base in the Crimea, possibly heralding a violent resolution to the tense armed...
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In breaking news, Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post report that the NSA uses a tool that records every single telephone conversation in a foreign country and stores it for thirty d...
