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Time to Resolve the Metadata Fight
Congress is playing brinksmanship again, this time over the national-security metadata collection program. Until the Second Circuit concluded that Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act did not authorize bul... -
An Approach to Ameliorating Press-IC Tensions Over Classified Information
I've been thinking about the exchange over the past couple of weeks---much of which took place on Lawfare---between the New York Times and the intelligence community over the naming of CIA undercover off... -
Why the Current Section 215 Reform Debate Doesn't Matter Much
The ACLU's Chris Soghoian explains (time 25:52-30:55) why the current debate over Section 215 of the Patriot Act is just a minor facet of a large and complex bulk collection program by the FBI and the NS... -
With Friends Like These
Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell – both Republican Senators from Kentucky – despise the USA Freedom Act for different reasons. As readers know, the Freedom Act ends bulk collection while giving the NSA the... -
DOJ's Inspector General Releases New Review of FBI Use of Section 215 Orders
The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice has released a new unclassified report reviewing the FBI's use of Section 215 orders from 2007 through 2009. Specifically, the revie... -
PCLOB's Rachel Brand on Section 215
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's Rachel Brand penned an opinion piece in today's Christian Science Monitor. It opens: The heated debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize Section ... -
NSA Spying Will Begin Winding Down This Week: Justice Department Memo
Dustin Volz of the National Journal has obtained a memo from the Department of Justice circulated among congressional offices today that says the NSA will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bul... -
Down to the Wire on the Patriot Act
Julian Hattem has a good piece in the Hill on the current state of play in the Senate with respect to expiration of the Patriot Act provisions in less than two weeks: Sen. -
DOJ Announces Indictment of 6 Chinese Nationals for Economic Espionage
Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of six Chinese nationals on charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets "for their roles in a long-running effort to obtain U.S.... -
A Sunset of Section 215 Is Increasingly Likely - And May Prompt Overhaul
Senator Richard Burr, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently made comments to press suggesting that he believed the sunset for Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act will occur sometim... -
Lindsey Graham's Iowa Drone Strike Out
It's a crowded field for Republican presidential candidates, but Lindsey Graham knows how to differentiate himself from the pack: he loves drone strikes more than his competitors. Speaking the other nig... -
Some Domestic and International Law Questions Raised by the Abu Sayyaf Raid
Today’s White House statement about last night’s spectacular Special Operations raid into Syria states that “This operation was conducted with the full consent of Iraqi authorities and, like our existing...
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