How long will the enhanced security state in America last?  Apparently, some think it will be "for the rest of time."  That has to be wrong. As readers of this blog know, I live on Capitol Hill and walk...

As Yahoo News reports,the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has published an order granting Yahoo and the government's joint motion to allow Yahoo pre-publication access to FISC documents after dec...

Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf takes a peek at my ideology in response to my critique of the Washington Post's recent story on NSA collection of email contact lists overseas. I'm glad he did.

As Ben noted, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has redacted and made available another memorandum and primary order dealing with Section 215 telephone metadata collection. Two things s...

Get yer copies of the memorandum and primary order here. (Other less interesting documents here and here.) I'll write up my thoughts as soon as I have any.

Although Joel's post from last night cites the wrong letter from Judge Walton to Senators Leahy and Grassley, this week's letter, which definitely does not bury the lede, does provide significant data on...

Now we know:  the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court bounces a quarter of the government’s applications for surveillance orders.  This according to statistics released this week by the court’s chief...

Here's the Fourth Circuit's order denying two petitions for rehearing en banc----one by New York Times reporter James Risen, the other by former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling.

For those who are following the saga of Lavabit, the company has now filed its brief in the Fourth Circuit.

In July, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court undertook to collect more detailed statistics than those required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  Among other things, the latter calls ...

As a short follow up to Ben's post about the editorial judgment of the Washington Post, I am reminded of what the New York Times Public Editor, Byron Calame said about the SWIFT disclosures, in an opinio...