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On Friday I said that on a quick read, the Obama administration’s new pre-publication review policy seemed "overbroad to the point of practically unenforceable.” Friday afternoon, as Marty Lederman not...
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Charlie Savage reports:
The Obama administration is clamping down on a technique that government officials have long used to join in public discussions of well-known but technically still-secret informat...
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IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents:
DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...
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An interesting tidbit today regarding US involvement in Yemen, from Politico's first-rate briefer Morning Defense:
MORE MILITARY SUPPORT COULD BE COMING: Shy of putting boots on the ground, the U.S. gove...
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This was bound to happen eventually, I suppose: the New York Times editorial page has gotten behind the effort to hold up David Barron's judicial nomination. Sort of. Calling Barron, whom Obama has nomin...
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The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv...
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Has DOD failed to comply with its statutory obligation to explain to Congress how the executive branch decides which groups and persons are within the scope of the AUMF?
HASC Chairman McKeon has release...
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A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis...
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Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ...
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Ashley beat me to the punch in flagging today’s news about Rep.
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Over at Foreign Policy, Dan Lamothe reports that Rep. Duncan Hunter will introduce legislation on May 7 that would authorize the Executive Branch to target the individuals who attacked the U.S.
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As Ritika noted, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel today announced some aspects of the government’s policy on disclosing cyber vulnerabilities.
