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A moment of levity from the NSA conference Bobby is hosting down at University of Texas. Towards the end of an excellent discussion between Hanni Fakhoury, Benjamin Powell and Ahmed Ghappour about the fu...
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Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence...
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Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads."
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My very first Lawfare post, back in December 2011, focused on the messy constitutional question raised by United States v. Ali—a case then pending before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces that ra...
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The vote was 99-1, according to the Main Justice blog. The lone "nay" was Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).
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Very interesting post over at Huffington Post from Geoffrey Stone about his Review Group service, his changed view of NSA, and trust of the spy agency. Quite moving, actually. Writes Stone:
From the outs...
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The big news last week in NSA reform was the White House’s announcement of its plan to end the NSA’s metadata program, but it wasn’t the only news. The bipartisan leadership of the House Intelligence Com...
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Friday brought us three newly declassified FISC rulings.
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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...
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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...
