As we've noted, amendments spanning several issues, including cybersecurity, and anti-terrorism laws, have been put forth as add-ons to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.

From the defense's standpoint, which are more onerous: restrictions on lawyers in civilian terrorism cases or restrictions used in military commissions? Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ...

The Washington Post reported last week that the United States government had decided not to prosecute Julian Assange for his role in the massive release of classified State Department cables because “gov...

When the Senate returns on December 9 to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the more than 500 amendments Senators will consider is a provision that would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act ...

The November NSA cache declassified by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper last week includes two United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) documents. The more important of the ...

This past Friday, District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s ("ACLU") challenge to the government’s bulk...

The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight.

Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now.

Back in September, I wrote the following: Imagine you were a high-level decision-maker in a clandestine intelligence agency. Imagine that you had played by the rules Congress had laid out for you, worked...

Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ...

The NSA had come knocking.  It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States.  That request’s stagg...

The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big.  But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise;  at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are...