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Readings: Henry Farrell on Critics of Snowden and Greenwald
Some time back, Ben noted two stern critiques of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald---one by Sean Wilentz and another by George Packer. The latter reviewed Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide; ditto Micha... -
A Follow Up on the Postal Service Metadata Program
This morning, I posted some thoughts on a story in the New York Times about so-called "mail covers" by the Postal Service and their relationship -
Will Anyone Care About the Postal Service's Metadata Program
I'm very interested to watch how the political system responds to this New York Times story about the U.S. Postal's Service very old, sort-of-bulk metadata program. The Times reports: In a rare public ac... -
Feds Identify Suspected "Second Leaker"
That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker." The story begins: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ... -
A Bit More On the Debate About the Extraterritorial Scope of the Torture Convention’s Provisions on Cruelty
In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor... -
DNI Releases Update on PPD-28 Implementation
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an update on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, regarding signals intelligence activities. -
Charging Snowden With...Murder? Really?
Offered without (or only a little) further comment: this piece from The Hill, and a rather eyebrow-raising quotation therein from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers regarding Edward Snowde... -
Sweeping Claims and Casual Legal Analysis in the Latest U.N. Mass Surveillance Report
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Susan Landau on NSA Efforts to Secure Private Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure
Susan Landau has a new paper – entitled Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure – up at the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. From the abstra... -
CDT Event this Evening on "Databuse"
This will be an interesting event this evening. -
Why Glenn Greenwald's Challenge is Asking the Wrong Question
Over at Vox an admiring article appears on a challenge that Glenn Greenwald is giving to people who think they have nothing to hide: The most common defense for the massive expansion of -
On the Latest <em>Intercept</em> Story
You may not have read much about the latest big scoop in The Intercept, released Friday evening under the bylines of Peter Maass and Laura Poitras and headlined "Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and ...
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