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James Risen Needs to Read the NYT
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... -
Judge Thomas Hogan to be Presiding Judge on FISC
The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1... -
More On Mass Surveillance
Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent. Two additional data points strengthen his argument. First, back in Ju... -
On the White House and HPSCI Proposals for Surveillance Reform
By now you've likely heard: the President will back a legislative proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata. And Congressmen Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersburger, the Chairman and R... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Besides everyone being in a tizzy about President Obama's proposal to end bulk metadata collection---and a competing proposal announced today, by the House Intel Committee---it turns out there's a lot go... -
Uganda Follow-Up: A Link to the Updated WPR Letter
Further to my post yesterday, the administration has sent this letter to Congress in relation to the Uganda mission, using the usual "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" formulation. -
President Obama Press Conference
This morning's press conference with President Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has just concluded. We've thus removed the embedded video player, and will await a transcript of the two leaders' remar... -
New Tech and National Security Law -- Tile
Who needs the NSA? Now you can buy Tile for just $20 and track anything you want. Tile is a small white square that you can affix to almost anything. It's only a few millimeters thick -- thin enough t... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #12: An Interview with Jim Lewis
This week’s cyberlaw podcast begins as always with the week in NSA. We suspect that a second tech exec meeting with the President (for two hours!) bodes ill for the intelligence community, or at least th... -
A Reply to Ryan Goodman
Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs. -
White House Will Back Legislation Ending NSA's Bulk Collection of Phone Metadata
That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the... -
Uganda and the WPR Clock
Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda?
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