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Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny.
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I testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. The hearing was on the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 -- a proposal by Senator Fr...
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Last month, I had the privilege of participating in three different forums on the Snowden leaks and congressional considerations of reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): a hearing b...
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this piece about the disgusting efforts of Rep. James Sensenbrenner to wash his hands of bulk metadata collection:
Reasonable people can disagree about NSA surveillance in ...
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Earlier, I noted the Lavabit appeal filing in the Fourth Circuit. Today the government filed its reply brief. A summary of the argument:
Lavabit appeals a contempt order from the district court. But in...
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This event took place last night at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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I was on the same panel as Orin at Monday's day-long hearing before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and think there's a lot to commend his proposal for a statutory rule of lenity as a tool...
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The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston.
Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment. Caroline is currently the Princ...
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Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi...