This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least.  The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...

Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...

That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times).  It begins as follows: CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...

The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....

On March 12 of this year, Senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, whether the National Security Agency gathers “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of mi...

A group of twenty-six senators yesterday wrote to DNI James Clapper, and inquired about the executive branch's application of the USA PATRIOT ACT---chiefly, it seems, the "business records" provision set...

A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...

This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...