That's the gist of this Politico report, which adds new details about congressional oversight and the FISC order directed at metadata for Verizon customers' communications.  Some members have expressed c...

[See below for an important correction to this post] I confess myself at a bit of a loss to understand the FISA Court order that Steve discussed earlier and that Glenn Greenwald disclosed at the Guardian.

This story from Glenn Greenwald is pretty alarming--but it pales in comparison to the FISA Court's order itself, a copy of which is posted on the Guardian's website.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.

So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.  

The major challenge to legitimating the shadow war against terrorists is that the Executive branch is hand-tied by its own secrecy rules, and cannot disclose what it is doing to permit Congress and the A...

Former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair ABC, speaking about how leaks from the top of the Obama administration set the tone for leaks further down that are subject of DOJ investigations: Ma...

Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial.

The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration.

An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News: There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...

A few years ago I wrote an op-ed that gave these reasons (among others) why the USG should not prosecute Julian Assange for the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department cables: A conviction [of Assange]...