I’m sure that I and others will have more to say about this in the future, but in the meantime, here is the summary and 88-page Vodafone transparency report  that has been widely

A few weeks ago, Ben posted some comments about a Der Spiegel article that suggested the tensions between the United States and Germany were likely to die down. Not so fast, it appears. Germany’s top pro...

I haven't watched it yet, as I was doing a different event at the time of the hearing. But thanks to the magic of CSPAN and it's belated, but very welcome propensity for embed codes . .

The hearing on FISA reforms will get going today at 2:30 p.m, and (as always) be broadcasted live via C-SPAN.  The witness line-up is below with links to written statements. First Panel (Government): Ja...

From NBC News.

The first is by George Packer, writing in Prospect: Some of the instances are more subtle than others, but spread over the several hundred pages of this book, they reveal a mind that has liberated itsel...

Rahul Sagar is Associate Professor at Yale NUS and the author of the terrific and timely Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy (reviewed favorably by Steven Aftergood on Lawfare and Eric Posner...

Let’s give Edward Snowden his due: He did himself a lot of good in his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, which aired last night. He presents well, coming across as earnest, thoughtful and intelligent....

The ODNI Tumblr site today posted April 2013 e-mail correspondence between Edward Snowden and the NSA's Office of General Counsel---the only such correspondence NSA says it has found.

Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of the indispensable Necessary Secrets, has a new essay in Hoover’s Emerging Threats series entitled “Secrecy, Leaks, and Selective Prosecution.”  He offers this description of...

Michael Kinsley, in his review of Glenn Greenwald’s book, made the following claims about leaks of national security secrets: The question is who decides.