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...

I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata ...

Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute,