Today's ruling in Smith v. Obama grants the government's motion to dismiss, and thus bats away a Fourth Amendment-based challenge to NSA telephone metadata collection---for the reasons one would expect. ...

Senator Corker has an op-ed in the WP on the need to update the AUMF.   He documents the growth of extra-AUMF terrorist threats and then argues: These incidents seem to suggest that the September 2001 Au...

A remarkable development out of a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania: five named members of the Chinese military have been indicted for economic cyberespionage.  Details from the DOJ pres...

How very unpleasant: Rand Paul announces, only semi-coherently, that he is filibustering David Barron's First Circuit nomination. The statement reads: "I've read David Barron's memos concerning the lega...

IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents: DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...

Now available: a six-strong batch of

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a lower court opinion and ordered the government to release key portions of the legal memos that lie behind the targeted killing of Anwar Al ...

Likely you know by now of this afternoon's 11-3 vote.

Friday brought us three newly declassified FISC rulings.

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.

You can find the Senator's statement here.

Right now, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman, is speaking out, on the Senate floor, about a well-publicized dispute between the CIA and the SSCI---regarding the latte...