At this hour, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is speaking at the ABA Convention. Here's the text of his speech:

As Bobby noted earlier, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing entitled: "Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan."

Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads."

The Senate Armed Services Committee is currently holding hearings with two nominees for high-ranking military posts: General Paul J. Selva, USAF is being considered for commander of United States Transpo...

I haven't watched these two speeches from the RSA conference yet, but Paul tells me they are both worth seeing:

The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN. The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be: The Honorable David M...

Below is the video of the discussion that took place today at Brookings on the President's NSA speech.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing regarding several of President Obama's nominations, which include that of John Carlin, nominated for the position of Assistant Attorney Gener...

Despite the government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with its planned hearing on FISA.

Here is video of the plenary panel from last week's ASIL conference, entitled "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years." Moderated by Donald Donovan, the panel included former...

What a useful contribution to the debate! From the Washington Post.

As you no doubt already know, Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul, on Wednesday filibustered John O. Brennan's nomination to be CIA Director for thirteen hours (with help, in part, from his Senate colle...

Congratulations to Duke Law School's Charlie Dunlap, who as executive director of the Center has organized another outstanding LENS conference.  You can follow it live streaming from the link at the webp...