On December 23, the NSA released a set of redacted reports detailing “intelligence activities . . . that [it has] reason to believe may be unlawful or contrary to Executive order or Presidential directiv...

Twitter brings news of this interesting little order in United States v. Vargas.  The court's opinion was authored by Judge Edward F. Shea and opens: The first duty of government is the safety of its peo...

The Department of Justice has released six Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) documents related to the surveillance activities originally initiated by President George W.

From Secretary of State John Kerry's prepared testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today: Toward that end, we ask you now to work closely with us on a bipartisan basis to develop langu...

Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper declassified the fact that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to extend the Nation...

Last Thursday, Bloomberg View’s Josh Rogin had a piece on a draft ISIL authorization put forth by Senator Bob Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Based on Rogin's report, it...

On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a declassified oral argument transcript from critically important 2008 proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co...

A few days after oral argument before a three-judge panel of the D.C.

On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the latest declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Primary Order on its website. The Primary Order, issued b...

On Friday, Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab's bid for a preliminary injunction against certain Guantanamo force-feedin...

The D.C. Circuit has just issued a per curiam order denying the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama.

On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an update on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, regarding signals intelligence activities.