So reports the Wall Street Journal.  As one of my colleagues commented "is anyone surprised?"  Here's the lede: Germany’s foreign intelligence service acknowledged tapping data flowing through a key Fran...

Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively: Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership...

Today the Committee to Protect Journalists published a very critical report on the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on leakers and control the flow of secret information from government offic...

A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland.  “Administration offi...

If a capture comes, can calls to send the terrorist to Guantanamo be far behind? Apparently not. ABC News is reporting that GOP Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, and Saxby Chambliss are calling fo...

Yesterday's Special Operations Forces raid on an al-Shabaab facility in Baraawe, Somalia, and the near-simultaneous capture-and-rendition of an al Qaeda figure in Tripoli, raise a number of interesting l...

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the other day on NSA programs, I talked a lot about the importance and centrality of compliance procedures. And I quoted a quip by NSA's compliance chief, Joh...

I have noted how openly the United States has been leaking information about its covert action to support moderate Syrian rebels – from its inception through the supposed recent ramp-up.  I notice via a

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When it comes to detention and drone strikes, both critics and supporters of the status quo assume that abandoning the armed-conflict model would have not just diplomatic and legal effects but also a sig...

Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.