Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA...

Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ...

Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15. Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw...

No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v.

Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ...

Yesterday, I raised issues regarding the review group’s process and deliberations. Today’s post focuses on several of the major themes of the report. Tomorrow’s third, and final, post will address what m...

I confess that I was not expecting the first response to my posts analyzing the Review Group recommendations would be one accusing me of going soft on the Review Group. But today, Stewart Baker, former N...

Over the past week and a half, writers on this site have provided comprehensive and detailed summaries of the surveillance review group report, along with some observations and assessments, as well as sh...

In Parts I and II of this series, I focused on the Review Group recommendations from Chapter III of the group's report. Starting in this post, I turn to the recommendations of Chapter IV, which deal with...

On Friday Jack offered some thoughts on Evgeny Morozov's piece in the Financial Times about the broader implications of the Snowden revelations, overlooked by those intent on fitting each new leak into a...

Having now read Judge William Pauley's opinion in ACLU v. Clapper, I am largely, though not completely, in agreement with Peter Margulies's assessment of the matter. The opinion is a useful corrective to...