Over at Politico, Josh Gerstein has an interesting piece on the Ali piracy case, and its potential implications for terrorism cases.  The article---which quotes Jen Daskal and Cully Stimson, among others...

That is the title of this press release by Senator Jeff Merkley, announcing a resolution “calling for Congress to have a role in approving any further United States military involvement in Afghanistan af...

Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las...

Here's his response, published at Just Security, to my post this morning about legal density and NSA: Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes is making excuses for the intelligence officials who’ve been saying th...

Last week, DNI Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give his annual World Wide Threat Assessment.  Once again cyber leads the list of most significant threats -- ahead o...

An old friend of mine, a mathematician at an elite college, told me some time back that---while still a student---he or she had done some work for NSA and been greatly relieved by the strict assurance gi...

That's the word from the NSA/CSS.  From today's release: GEN Keith Alexander – Commander, U.S. Cyber Command/Director, NSA/Chief, CSS – is pleased to announce that Richard "Rick" Ledgett is now the 15th ...

Vice Admiral Michael Rogers will succeed Gen. Keith Alexander as the director of the National Security Agency, reports the  New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is set to announce that ...