In case you're having trouble sleeping tonight, here is the 1,105-page full text of the compromise NDAA and the mere 532-page Joint Explanatory Statement on the bill. I'll have comments as soon as I go t...

Cheng Li’s and Ryan McElveen’s good post over the weekend (via Daniel Byman) sparked the following reflections on U.S. economic espionage, post-Snowden.  Li and McElveen nicely summarize U.S.-Chinese rel...

Monday evening, Senate and House armed services committee leaders announced that a compromise has been largely reached with regard to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act. Among those matters incl...

The world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) just got a little weirder. This morning Mark Mazzetti and Justin Elliott of the New York Times 

That's the gist of tonight's report, from Politico's Josh Gerstein:   President Barack Obama said Thursday that he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the National Security Agency, but he ...

In another forum, my colleague, Rafal Rohozinski, made some interesting observations about the Greenwald/Snowden disclosures as they relate to Canada.  Rohozinski was formerly a Fellow at Harvard's Berkm...

That, at least, seems to be the point of this story in the Guardian, which opens: The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the US because of the Edward Snowden rev...

As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and...

This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror...

The National Security Agency is down in the dumps. It’s used to being heralded for brilliance.