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Four comments on today's Washington Post story (and the Verizon story on domestic and foreign data collection):
First, today's Post story reminded me of this very interesting 2008 post from David Kris. ...
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White House Deputy Principal Press Secretary Josh Earnest spoke to the press on Air Force One on the way to Mooresville, NC, where President Obama is set to make an announcement today on education. The c...
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As I was getting on the long flight home from Thailand, Wells and I realized that I had made a considerable error in my earlier post on the NSA data collection effort. In reading the FISA Court's order, ...
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It had been a big NSA and FBI news day already. Along came this Washington Post story, which made it even bigger.
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Let’s begin with the news everyone did a huge double take when they came across: the NSA’s collection of Verizon customers’ phone records for a three month period.
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That's the gist of this Politico report, which adds new details about congressional oversight and the FISC order directed at metadata for Verizon customers' communications. Some members have expressed c...
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The Council on Foreign Relations has just released a new Task Force Report on Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet. The Task Force was co-chaired by former DNI John Negroponte and f...
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Over at The Week, Marc Ambinder shares the following from a senior government official regarding the leaked FISA Court order for Verizon.
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[See below for an important correction to this post]
I confess myself at a bit of a loss to understand the FISA Court order that Steve discussed earlier and that Glenn Greenwald disclosed at the Guardian.
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This story from Glenn Greenwald is pretty alarming--but it pales in comparison to the FISA Court's order itself, a copy of which is posted on the Guardian's website.
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I haven't given you all a Moment of Zen in oh-so-long, but fear not dear readers, I haven't abandoned you in your thirst for national security snark.
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Today’s lead story is that National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is stepping down---and Susan Rice is taking his place---in one of President Obama’s more defiant gestures to Congress in recent memory. Sa...
