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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...
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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...
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...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for Christmas. Happy holidays to all!
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Surveillance first:
At President Obama's end-of-year press conference on Friday, he promised a "pretty definitive statement" on proposed NSA reforms after the holiday.
As we noted Friday, the latest Sno...
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a...
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I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ...
