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Klayman v. Obama: Government Moves for More Time, Appellees Oppose
District court proceedings in Klayman v. Obama ended with a bang back in December, with D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruling that bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is... -
Oral Argument Preview: Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld (Detainee Abuse Case)
Today D.C. Circuit Judges David Tatel, Janice Rogers Brown, and A. Raymond Randolph will hear oral arguments in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld. -
David Miranda Decision Gives Broad Scope to UK Detention Authority
As I noted in an earlier post, the UK High Court in an opinion by Lord Justice John Laws dismissed David Miranda’s suit challenging his detention by the Metropolitan Police at London’s Heathrow Airport o... -
UK Court Dismisses David Miranda Detention Challenge
This morning, the UK’s Royal Court of Justice dismissed David Miranda’s application for judicial review of his nearly nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport last August. The Metropolitan police... -
Edward Lucas v. Conor Friedersdorf
For those of you who just can't get enough of debates featuring Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf, who appeared debating me on drones in this week's episode of the Lawfare Podcast. . -
What I Am---And What I Am Not---Saying About Laura Poitras
This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U... -
The Latest Snowden Leak: NSA Isn't Spying on Lawyers
Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story... -
Bruce Schneier on NSA v. Private Meta-Data Storage
In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ... -
Intelligence Squared Debate: "Snowden Was Justified"
The ACLU's Ben Wizner and Daniel Ellsberg vs. former CIA Director James Woolsey and Andrew McCarthy: Snowden Was Justified from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv -
Radiolab on the History of the Glomar Response
This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t... -
No “No Spy” Agreements?
President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un... -
Latest Batch of Declassified 215 Orders from the FISC
Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").
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