Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security.  And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...

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...

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...

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...

The leadership of the Senate and House intelligence committees released a statement in response to the President's Review Group's findings.

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...

While the Report of the President’s Review Group (see Ritika’s post here and Ben’s here) has already generated classic Washington-style buzz because of its criticism of the NSA’s bulk collection of metad...

In the coming days, I am certain we will see a lot of substantive commentary on the just-released report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Liberty and Secur...

Caroline Krass had her confirmation hearings today before SSCI to become General Counsel of CIA.  Krass is, in my opinion, wildly qualified for the job, and I hope her confirmation process goes smoothly ...

That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard.  The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...

The White House today released a "Report Consistent with the War Powers Resolution," concerning deployments of U.S. force equipped for combat. Nothing too exciting or novel here, on first glance at least...