The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications.  The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ...

It's been a rough week for the Obama Administration. In addition to outrage over IRS targeting of conservative groups and continued conspiratorial rumblings about the Administration's response to the Ben...

I've been in Germany all week (at the George C.

Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...

For those who'd prefer the shorter version of Jen Daskal and my draft paper on life "After the AUMF," we've got a short op-ed out in today's New York Times with a far less alliterative title: "Don't Expa...

Lawyers for Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, a Yemeni detained at Guantanamo, yesterday petitioned the D.C. Circuit for a writ of mandamus.

So we learn from this Associated Press story.  It hints that the records' acquisition may stem from a DOJ inquiry into the disclosure, last year, of classified material to the AP---regarding the CIA's di...

Not for the first time, and certainly not for the last, it appears that the Supreme Court disagrees with me--and doesn't think the constitutionality of courts-martial for civilian contractors is worth it...

Earlier today I posted a commentary on "Boston Bombings: Local Police and Counterterrorism Intelligence," based on reported claims that the FBI failed to pass on important threat information to the Bosto...

The New York Times had a story yesterday headlined “F.B.I. Didn’t Tell Boston Police of Warning on Brother”: Police Commissioner Edward Davis said that though some of his officers worked with the F.B.I. ...