That's the gist of tonight's report, from Politico's Josh Gerstein:   President Barack Obama said Thursday that he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the National Security Agency, but he ...

Lawfare readers will recall that I earlier blogged about the Federal Trade Commission's case against Wyndham Hotels.  Under the mantle of its consumer protection mandate, the FTC has sought to impose civ...

The National Security Agency is down in the dumps. It’s used to being heralded for brilliance.

As we've noted, amendments spanning several issues, including cybersecurity, and anti-terrorism laws, have been put forth as add-ons to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.

When the Senate returns on December 9 to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the more than 500 amendments Senators will consider is a provision that would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act ...

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...