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Lawfare Podcast Episode #53: Inside NSA, Part II--Wherein We Interview the Agency's Chief of Compliance, John DeLong
It's Day 2 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews with senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. In today's episode, we sit... -
Don't Miss the Footnotes: Judge Leon's Opinion in Klayman (Section 215 Collection)
Analyses of District Court Judge Richard Leon's opinion requiring the government to cease telephone metadata collection under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act against two plaintiffs are proliferating: ... -
Thoughts on Judge Leon's Section 215 Opinion
I have now read through Judge Richard Leon's opinion enjoining bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It's an odd document. For one thing, it's focused on a constitutional matter ... -
Government Says No Additional Briefing Needed to Address Revised Force-Feeding Protocols
More back-and-forth in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama, on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Last Wednesday, the government filed a response to the detainees' Dec. -
The Lynchpin of the Meta-Data Opinion
Ben has already linked to Judge Leon's remarkable opinion today, holding that the NSA metadata collection program is unconstitutional. The critical passages from the opinion begin on page 43, when Judge... -
The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution
That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation... -
District Court Opinion Enjoins Bulk Metadata Collection Program
This today from Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Leon appears to have stayed his opinion pending review. I haven't read it yet. But it concludes: In the m... -
A Duel of Letters in the Counsel Access Case
The nearly-singular focus of last week's oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case, was the intrusiveness of JTF-GTMO's genital-area searches. That focus hasn't at all shifted, judging by ... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
The Associated Press is reporting that Harvard University has evacuated its campus after unconfirmed reports of explosives in four of its buildings--"out of an abundance of caution." Yale University issu... -
Two More Detainees Transferred, This Time to Saudi Arabia
The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #52: Inside NSA, Part I---An Interview With General Counsel Rajesh De
Welcome to "Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don't Have To"---a special series of podcast interviews of senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. As we described on Saturday, ... -
"60 Minutes" on Snowden and NSA
They got remarkable access both to people and to facilities
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