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DOJ Responses to FAQs on Use of National Security Letters to Obtain Electronic Communication Transaction Records
Below is a copy to the Department of Justice's Responses to Frequently Asked Questions on Use of National Security Letters to Obtain Electronic Communication Transaction Records, which should be of inter... -
New Strategies for Securing Our Private Lives
I recently wrote an essay reflecting on the reality that nearly anyone with a life online is today subject to being hacked and having anything private become public. If the media is understandably going... -
Fourth Circuit Reinstates Abu Ghraib Lawsuit
In a decision handed down today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court decision dimissing a tort suit against CACI Premier Technology Inc., a contractor at the Abu Ghr... -
General Cartwright Charged with Making False Statements on Stuxnet Leak
Former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James "Hoss" Cartwright has been charged with making false statements regarding the leak of classified information on Stuxnet. -
NSA Compliance and Congress’s Plan: How to Account for Flaws in the Metadata Program?
In the extraordinary transparency that followed Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations, one tantalizing mystery remained: how did the NSA persist until early 2009 in querying metadata under the now-replaced s... -
Some Thoughts on Reuters, NY Times, and Yahoo
Benjamin Wittes flags that much of the Yahoo story is unclear, including legal arguments and the objective of the search, and further reporting from Motherboard and the Intercept further confuses the pos... -
Understanding Footnote 14: NSA Lawyering, Oversight, and Compliance
In 2009, the government notified the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) of a serious issue in the design and description of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Business Records metadata prog... -
Holding Off on that Yahoo Email Story
I've gotten a few questions the last couple of days about why Lawfare has had nothing to say about that big story Reuters ran the other day on Yahoo, the intelligence community, and the scanning of all t... -
DOJ OIG Report on Use of Section 215
The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice has released an unclassified version of a report on the FBI's use of Section 215 from 2012-2014. The classified version of the report was pro... -
In Defense of the Washington Post's Much Maligned Snowden Editorial
To see the Snowdenistas and many media elites clutching for their smelling salts, you’d think my former colleagues at the Washington Post editorial page had stabbed Edward Snowden in the back after swear... -
The Rahami Interrogation: An Update
Rahami has been in custody (and in the hospital in Newark) for about two days at this point. The public record reveals very little about the interrogation process thusfar. What we do know is that federal... -
Clemency for Snowden? What the Debate Can’t Tell Us
Prior to last week, one might have been forgiven for thinking that Edward Snowden had fallen out of the news. Now, however, Oliver Stone’s new film Snowden and the ACLU-Amnesty International campaign to ...
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