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.

I am struck by the circumspection of the American press in not revealing the name of the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan whom the Obama Administration inadvertently disclosed over the weekend.  That nam...

One frequently sees the claim that CIA drone operations should be handed over to the military because the military is more transparent. I have frequently disparaged that argument, not because the CIA is ...

It is difficult, if not impossible, for those outside the Intelligence Community to make a fair assessment of how much harm the Snowden leaks did to national security.  And, perhaps, for those inside the...

I've never heard of Fedscoop before, but it seems to have done a video interview with John DeLong, NSA's compliance chief.

Over at the New York Times, Charlie Savage has a good story about civil libertarian irritation over the latest version of the "USA FREEDOM Act," H.R. 3361---which he has also posted.

A group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a Statement of Principles for rebuilding trust in intelligence activities. It is signed by the following people: Charle...

IC on the Record has the latest document dump: Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released, in redacted form, a previously classified series of Foreig...

The best review I have seen of Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is by David Cole in the Washington Post, who concludes: This is an important and illuminating book.