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Lenity and the FISA Reform Endgame
I was on the same panel as Orin at Monday's day-long hearing before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and think there's a lot to commend his proposal for a statutory rule of lenity as a tool... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this morning that the main Syrian opposition group has refused to participate in talks with the Syrian government that would have taken place in Moscow. -
Bond v United States: The Supreme Court Should Not Let Bad Facts Make Bad Law
As Raff noted earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the strange case of Bond v United States, in which a Pennsylvania woman, Carol Anne Bond, was convicted under a federa... -
Reply Brief Availabile in Hatim v. Obama, Oral Argument Set for Dec. 9
In Hatim v. Obama, a.k.a. the Guantanamo "counsel access case," the government's reply brief has been submitted, and the D.C. Circuit has slated the case for oral argument on Monday, December 9. We've c... -
Caroline Krass Nominated as CIA GC
The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston. Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment. Caroline is currently the Princ... -
David Miranda Challenges Schedule 7 Detention
Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The NSA isn't the only organization interested in metadata. The CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million per year to access its vast database of phone records---which the phone company has voluntarily agreed ... -
FAA Releases Two Key Documents on Domestic Drones
Today, the Federal Aviation Administration released two key documents bearing on the coming integration, on a broad scale, of drones into our national airspace. One is the so-called "Roadmap," a forward... -
Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers
As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.” In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin... -
Real Spies, Fake Spies, NSA, and More: What My 2012 and 2013 National Polls Reveal
In August 2012, thanks to YouGov, I launched my first national survey to probe more deeply about what Americans know about intelligence agencies, what they think about controversial intelligence programs... -
SSCI Approves Intelligence Authorization Bill for FY2014
The legislation, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday approved by a 13-2 vote, can be found here. The Committee's press release sums up the bill and can be found here. There's al... -
Cully Stimson on “Sexual Assault in The Military: Understanding the Problem and How to Fix It”
Charles "Cully" Stimson of the Heritage Foundation writes in with these thoughts on a report Heritage has released on sexual assault in the military: In the spirit of keeping national security law devote...
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