One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping.  (...

I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a  "very m...

I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.

I am back in Cairo after some time out of the country, and there is a lot going on. Here are some notes from the last fews weeks in reverse chronological order.

One sometimes hears in national security circles, including within the USG, statements to the effect that the U.S. military cannot operate in the homeland, or cannot execute law within the homeland.

As noted in the roundup, Lavabit is in the news again as one of two popular encrypted email services to shut down last Thursday. The company first made headlines back in July, when Edward Snowden used hi...

The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill...

President Obama was dead-on when he said the following in his August 9th press conference: "[P]robably what's a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and Cong...