Word has it that Edward Snowden might be willing to travel to Germany to testify to a public prosecutor or an investigating committee of the German parliament that is looking into mass surveillance.  How...

Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...

Voice of America is reporting that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (like the U.S.

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...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties. Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...

Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...

I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico:

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was to have had a hearing today on proposed reforms to the NSA surveillance programs.  I was invited as a witness on a panel with Steve Bradbury and S...

The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 3 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law. The Introduction and Chapter 1 came out in March.

Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf takes a peek at my ideology in response to my critique of the Washington Post's recent story on NSA collection of email contact lists overseas. I'm glad he did.

Here's the news, from The Daily Beast's Dan Klaidman: The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu...