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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Attorney General’s CBS Interview
Jan Crawford’s extraordinary CBS interview with Attorney General William Barr was released on Friday, May 31. In it Barr said some good things about why his investigation of the Trump campaign investigat... -
A Different View on the President’s Delegation of Declassification Authority to the Attorney General
President Trump’s delegation of a narrowly defined declassification authority to Attorney General Bill Barr has attracted criticism, notably on this site by my colleagues David Kris and Benjamin Wittes. ... -
Reflections on the President’s Delegation of Declassification Authority to the Attorney General
In the wake of Watergate, a remarkable series of legislative and administrative reforms sought to prevent future abuses by making the attorney general responsible for keeping intelligence agencies within... -
The Assange Indictment Seeks to Punish Pure Publication
There is a lot to digest in the superseding indictment of Julian Assange, which charges the Wikileaks founder with 17 counts under the 1917 Espionage Act in connection with the Chelsea Manning disclosure... -
The U.S. Media Is in the Crosshairs of the New Assange Indictment
I have written a lot on how hard it is to distinguish WikiLeaks from the New York Times when it comes to procu -
Assange Superseding Indictment
On Thursday, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment charging WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17-counts of violating the Espionage Act and one count of co... -
Why Are the U.S.'s Cyber Secrets Getting Stolen? Because China’s Getting Better At Stealing Them.
The New York Times published a major story last week, drawing on research from the cybersecurity company Symantec. The story revealed how a group of elite Chinese hackers known as APT3 had apparently gai... -
Document: Former Intelligence Analyst Charged With Providing Classified Information to Reporter
On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed an indictment charging Daniel Everett Hale, a former intelligence analyst with the Air Force and National Security Agenc... -
Documents: Jerry Chun Shing Lee Plea Documents
On May 1, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a former CIA employee, pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide classified information to the Chinese government in violation of the Espionage Act. The statement of facts a... -
Document: 2018 ODNI Statistical Transparency Report
On Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual statistical transparency report for 2o18. The full report is available below. -
Document: FISC Releases 2018 Annual Report
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has released its annual report for 2018. The document is available here and below. -
Remembering the Bay of Pigs: Law and Covert War
Tomorrow is an ignominious anniversary. On that date in 1961, about 1,400 American-trained Cuban exiles launched a secret invasion of Cuba in an effort to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime. After landing...
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