While the Report of the President’s Review Group (see Ritika’s post here and Ben’s here) has already generated classic Washington-style buzz because of its criticism of the NSA’s bulk collection of metad...

Earlier this week, Military Judge James Pohl, the presiding judge at the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al, issued three orders that relate to secrecy in the military commissions. ...

In the coming days, I am certain we will see a lot of substantive commentary on the just-released report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Liberty and Secur...

Last night Jack highlighted certain parts of Caroline Krass's answers to the Additional Prehearing Questions that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence posed to her.

Obviously, there's a lot to say about Monday's decision by Judge Leon granting a preliminary injunction against the NSA's telephone metadata program and then staying that decision pending appeal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:  “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."  His point was that only small-minded men refused to re...

Analyses of District Court Judge Richard Leon's opinion requiring the government to cease telephone metadata collection under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act against two plaintiffs are proliferating: ...

I have now read through Judge Richard Leon's opinion enjoining bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It's an odd document. For one thing, it's focused on a constitutional matter ...

Ben has already linked to Judge Leon's remarkable opinion today, holding that the NSA metadata collection program is unconstitutional.  The critical passages from the opinion begin on page 43, when Judge...

This today from Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Leon appears to have stayed his opinion pending review. I haven't read it yet. But it concludes: In the m...