The report of the President’s Review Group on NSA matters has already received widespread attention, some of it high altitude, some of it more granular. It’s an ambitious document, both conceptually and ...

Published by W.W. Norton (2014) Reviewed by Bruce Riedel

From the Financial Times: Apology to His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa

The President Review Group's ("PRG") Report, released last week, makes nearly four-dozen individual recommendations related to foreign intelligence surveillance, privacy, civil liberties oversight respon...

This Christmas Eve opinion, authored by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson for a three-judge panel composed of Judge Thomas B. Griffith and Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, affirms the distri...

On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio...

Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security.  And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...

On Saturday, I posted this piece in response to a particularly slimy blog post on The Nation's web site. The post dealt with Lawfare's relationship with the New Republic and the sponsorship of our joint ...

At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr...

On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence declassified eight documents related to NSA activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata. The documents---all declarations by NSA offi...