The developing story of the FBI’s impersonation of journalists is, in a way, really the story of Timberline high school in Washington State. In June of 2007 Timberline had received a series of bomb threa...

Those of you interested in the organization of the Intelligence Community may recall a major initiative launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency, in 2012, to expand the size and focus of its HUMINT co...

Below you’ll find a recap of yesterday morning’s argument in Klayman v. Obama. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit yesterday considered a key challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection from telephone c...

I think I am unusual among former government officials in arguing that the publication of national security secrets can promote democracy and good government.  Such publications are often costly, sometim...

Over the last year and a half, the intelligence community has released a significant amount of previously classified material in an effort to be more transparent regarding matters pertaining to foreign i...

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...

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

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...