I was on a panel at American University on Friday to discuss cyber and the role of corporations.  Ben was on the same panel and the moderator (Dan Marcus) introduced Ben as the "James Madison of the Lawf...

On Thursday, I posted this item noting a possible convergence of civil liberties interests and NSA's operational needs in the President's metadata proposal.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...