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Today's Headlines and Commentary
In spite of the weather, the Senate had enough senators present on Monday evening to confirm Janet Yellen as the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Colleen LaRose, a.k.a. "Jihad Jane," was sentenced t... -
Robin Simcox on Why Terrorists Can't Always Be Prosecuted
Robin Simcox of the Henry Jackson Society in Britain writes in with the following thoughts on the difficulties of prosecuting terrorist suspects, a subject which he covered in this recent report: Preside... -
From IC On The Record: A response to the Times Editorial, and the FISC Renews the Telephony Metadata Program
Two important releases showed up on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr on Friday. First, the General Counsel for the ODNI, Bob Litt, responded to the New York Times Edward Snow... -
John Rizzo on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
This must read exerpt from John Rizzo's forthcoming book bears the provocative title, "I Could Have Stopped Waterboarding Before It Happened." It's a fascinating insider account from the 30-year veteran... -
The Extent of the Snowden Disclosures
Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Three days of peace talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders have not yielded any breakthroughs, but Secretary of State John Kerry says that he is "comfortable that the major choices are on the table,"... -
Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part V
Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ... -
Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part IV
Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15. Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "2013 – The Year We Lost Iraq?"
Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Reviewing the Reviewers: The President's Review Group report continues to inspire debate. Carrie Cordero gave a thoughtful three-part analysis of the Report: Part I looked at the Review Group's process ... -
Telephony Metadata Cases Appealed
No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v. -
D.C. Circuit: OLC Opinion on Exigent Letters Exempted from FOIA
Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ...
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