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Paul Pillar: "Stop Bashing the NSA"
Smart blog post from CIA veteran Paul Pillar over at the National Interest. It opens: The brouhaha over some of the National Security Agency's collection activities is the most recent example of a tenden... -
Bruce Ackerman on Congressional Publication of Classified Information and the Speech and Debate Clause
Bruce Ackerman has a piece in the FP arguing that Senator Wyden, who has been disappointed in the quantity and quality of Executive branch disclosures related to surveillance, should “let Americans know ... -
Getting XKeyscore Right
For those who are interested in the details of the latest revelations about the NSA XKeyscore program, including some of the essential details that are elided in some of the public coverage, I was pointe... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
A Lawfare debate ensued over an amicus brief filed in the Al-Bahlul D.C. Circuit appeal. -
ABA Cybersecurity Handbook
The American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Law and National Security (of which, full disclosure here, I am a member) has released a new book: "The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Res -
On the Unsurprising Continuation of Drone Strikes
There is an interesting article in the New York Times this morning, from Mark Mazzetti and Mark Landler, the thrust of which is captured by the headline: "Despite Administration Promises, Few Signs of Ch... -
James Risen Petitions For Rehearing En Banc, Media File Amicus Brief in the Fourth Circuit
Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling. It was filed yesterday. Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou... -
Two Things I Don’t Understand
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Hosting Service Problems Caused This Morning's Lawfare Outage
Lawfare readers likely noticed already: for much of the day, the site was inaccessible. It appears to be functioning now. The outage was entirely a consequence of acknowledged but undefined "issues" en... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
As Paul noted, Timothy Edgar, former Deputy for Civil Liberties for the DNI, and Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties for the White House National Security Staff, authored this Wall Street Journal op-... -
Transparency and Surveillance
Tim Edgar has a unique perspective on national security surveillance. He's an ACLU lawyer who went to work for the White House and did intelligence law from the inside. Now he is out again (at Brown) a... -
Former NSA Officials Allege Large-Scale Domestic Content Collection
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