In December, East Timor initiated a case against Australia in the International Court of Justice.  The facts are out of a Tom Clancy novel.  In short, East Timor alleges that Australia bugged an East Tim...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast discussion organized by the National Constitution Center on NSA, the President's speech on Friday, and the Review Group report. My interlocutor was Pe...

Late last month Marty Lederman flagged the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies’ endorsement of the Front-Page Rule: That informal precept, long employed by the leader...

That's the mixed message of this new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press, which also suggests---among other things---that President Obama's speech is not resonating all that much with t...

In his excellent analysis of the President's NSA speech and PPD-28, Ben suggests that there is less than meets the eye to the President's promise not to listen in on the conversations of foreign leaders ...

President Obama's speech on Friday and its accompanying Presidential Policy Directive (PDD-28) cover a lot of ground, announce a bunch of reforms, announce plans and direction for more, and kick still ot...

Yesterday’s New York Times editorial about the President’s speech faults the President for failing to give credit to Edward Snowden: One of his biggest lapses was his refusal to acknowledge that his enti...

President Obama’s address on Friday outlining surveillance reforms for the NSA hit the mark in both substance and tone.  He defended without apology the necessity of intelligence gathering, outlined the ...

I had two reactions to President Obama's address,  one general and another specific. First the general.  President Obama made a good speech today, both for what he said and what he didn't say.  He has a...