Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program.  One of the most provocative paragraphs is this one (w...

The Washington Post has an interesting story today announcing that the CIA has opened an internal investigation into its prepublication review process: The CIA has begun an internal investigation into wh...

Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.

In all the last two days' coverage of the Obama administration's targeting program -- including this lengthy NYT piece, Dan Klaidman's book excerpt, and today's NYT editorial -- there's a remarkable lack...

Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.

A couple of months ago, Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, sent in this account of the controversy in Britain over a government proposal to allow...

A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...

The New York Times published an editorial yesterday criticizing Monday's decision by the Second Circuit in ACLU v.

I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...

A senior government lawyer writes in with the following thought on the Pakistani sentencing of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama Bin Laden:

In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w...