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The Snowden Conspiracy (?)
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post has an excellent analysis today in is "Fine Print" column. Though he has been portrayed as a classic "Lone Wolf, it appears likely that Snowden actually had support ... -
Making FISC More Adversarial: A Brief Response to Orin Kerr
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi... -
EPIC Files Petition in SCOTUS Regarding FISC Section 215 Order
The Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC"), an advocacy and litigation group, today petitioned for a writ of mandamus or prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, in the Supreme Court. The filing's ... -
District Court on Force Feeding: No Jurisdiction to Stop It, Though the President Can
A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
I’m back! I missed you terribly, dear readers, while I was busy eating home-cooked food. And fear not, I won't be going anywhere for some time. A big round of applause goes to Raffaela for steering the ... -
Cairo Diary, July 7: An Outside Perspective
Tahrir Square is full tonight. Tamarod marchers converge on downtown from all over Cairo. Rabaa el Adaweya is packed as well again today, only with Morsi supporters. I haven't written yet in this diary ... -
US Surveillance and Fiber Optic Cables
While Ben has already noted the big NY Times report on the FISA court, I thought I would call attention to the other big story in today's paper -- the Washington Post article on how the US maintains acce... -
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to Hold FISA Workshop this Tuesday
This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t... -
Readings: Anthony Dworkin on "Drones and Targeted Killing: Defining a European Position"
The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #35: Mark Plotkin of Covington & Burling on Private Sector National Security Law
Several recent high-profile news items have shone a spotlight on the relationship between the government and private industry in national security matters, an area not frequently discussed in the media. -
New York Times on FISA---and Orin Kerr on the New York Times
Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation... -
Cairo Diary, July 6: A New Prime Minister, Maybe
Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not. State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...
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