Congress is in recess now (that's why it's so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA.   The bill, authorizing activities of ...

The November NSA cache declassified by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper last week includes two United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) documents. The more important of the ...

The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight.

Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now.

Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ...

The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big.  But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise;  at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are...

Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today.  By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...

This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act. One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among...

On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today. We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...