That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,...

The Supreme Court today denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center's request for mandamus review of telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.

I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny.

So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder. In Clapper v.

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...

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 ...