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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 ...
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The President answered press questions this afternoon on a variety of subjects, including NSA surveillance and Edward Snowden.
The Washington Post has a transcript, the most NSA-relevant bits of which I...
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The leadership of the Senate and House intelligence committees released a statement in response to the President's Review Group's findings.
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Here it is. From its opening paragraphs:
Good afternoon, and warm tidings during this holiday season—a deeply meaningful season for so many peoples around the globe—to all of you.
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I've only skimmed this unsurprising ruling from the panel, which affirms the district court's dismissal of the detainee's suit against the military commissions' Convening Authority.
From its opening:
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More from Pandora’s Snowden’s Box: newly leaked documents by the Guardian and Der Spiegel give a much wider picture of the scope of the American and British surveillance practices. The documents contain ...
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Pre-Snowden, the USG faced few constraints in its collection and analysis other than what the law imposed and what its large budget permitted. Within these constraints, the USG could focus almost solely...
