Ever since the Edward Snowden revelations began, countries outraged by U.S. intelligence practices have been batting around the idea of forcing countries to store data on their citizens within those coun...

After Edward Snowden leaked, the UK Government dripped. Or, to put it less metaphorically, a major controversy played out in the UK over the past week around the speed, tone and scope of the coalition G...

Recent events again have raised the issue of accountability for alleged human rights violations by Blackwater, the most notorious of the private contractors deployed by the United States in the Iraq war....

The Germans are angry.  They have been simmering since Edward Snowden’s disclosures last summer revealed the startling extent of American intelligence-gathering and data-collection activities in Europe. ...

Over at the Washington Post, reporter Barton Gellman has a lengthy article on his (and his coauthors') reporting methods and ethical choices in their recent story on the large ca

In response to today's Intercept story on NSA and FBI surveillance of Muslim Americans, a large coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups have written to the White House---and, among other thi...

After a huge amount of pre-publication hype, Glenn Greenwald's new capstone NSA story is out, and I find myself with little to say about it. Greenwald has gotten his hands on a spreadsheet listing the e...

A government contractor steals tens of thousands of highly-sensitive communications intercepts. The communications have national security implications, yes, but put that aside for now. They also involve ...

That is the title of a NYT story this morning by Landler, Gordon, and Mazzetti.  The “Blueprint” they have in mind is the one the President laid out at West Point, which (in their words) "relies less on ...