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Your Friday Afternoon FISC 215 Document Dump
Now available: a six-strong batch of -
An Update on the Status of FISA Transparency Reporting
What follows is a quick recap on the status of FISA transparency reporting (most of this was news in late January but is summarized here with some useful links) along with a couple of observations on wha... -
Did President Obama Accept Recommendation 30?
Richard Clarke and Peter Swire, two of the five members of the President’s Intelligence Review Group, argue at The Daily Beast that the NSA should rarely keep (as opposed to disclose, and allow patching ... -
On Edward Snowden's Propaganda Stunt for Putin
I have maintained a certain agnosticism about Edward Snowden's relationship with the Russian intelligence services up until now. I noted with interest, but unconvinced, statements by congressional intell... -
Exploring the Effect of NSA Disclosures on the U.S. Technology Industry
This past Monday, I had the honor of moderating a panel organized by students at the American University Washington College of Law’s National Security Law Brief, on Understanding the Global Implications ... -
On The Recent FISC Preservation Rulings
When last we checked in on the metadata preservation saga, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had authorized the government---in contravention of its prior order---to retain metadata beyond the ... -
About (A Lot More Than) Metadata
The recent announcements by the President and the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee marked the beginning of the end of more than a decade of bulk metadata collection by the government under evo... -
Yale Symposium: Unpacking NSA's Global Problem
On Sunday, the Yale Information Society Project held an excellent symposium on the international policy implications of “Big Data.” I took part in the event (see livestream here), which touched on many t... -
Clearing Up Surveillance
Henry V’s claim to the throne of France is “as clear as is the summer’s sun,” explains the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare’s play. The joke, of course, is that he has come to this conclusion fol... -
Three Speeches on Cybersecurity by Dan Geer
Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence... -
The National Security Agency at the Crossroads: A Conference at UT---Livestream
Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads." -
Toward a Coherent Theory of the “Military Exception” to Article III
My very first Lawfare post, back in December 2011, focused on the messy constitutional question raised by United States v. Ali—a case then pending before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces that ra...
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