Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports that at last week’s Sources and Secrets conference, NYT reporter James Risen, who is fighting a subpoena for information in the Jeffrey Sterling trial, made these remark...

The chief justice, I am informed, has designated Judge Thomas F. Hogan to serve as the next presiding judge of the FISC, starting in May. Judge Hogan's term as Presiding Judge will continue through May 1...

Ben makes the point that the international legal regime that purportedly regulates metadata collection is, at best, highly nascent.  Two additional data points strengthen his argument. First, back in Ju...

Further to my post yesterday, the administration has sent this letter to Congress in relation to the Uganda mission, using the usual "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" formulation.

Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.

That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...

Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda?

Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t...

David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...

Last week I noted an interesting exchange on AUMF renewal (and life in a post-AUMF world) during Michael Lumpkin's March 11 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.  When Lumpkin appeared be...