Don't want to read the entire 230+ page report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 215?  Have better things to do with your weekend, but still want to know what's happening?  Th...

Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald.

As The New York Times and Washington Post reported, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is going to issue a report on section 215 of FISA and the te

Here it is, via Ars Technica.  

I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l...

Meanwhile, Verizon today became the first major telecommunications company to issue a transparency report about its interactions with the government when data about user activity is sought.

In December, East Timor initiated a case against Australia in the International Court of Justice.  The facts are out of a Tom Clancy novel.  In short, East Timor alleges that Australia bugged an East Tim...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast discussion organized by the National Constitution Center on NSA, the President's speech on Friday, and the Review Group report. My interlocutor was Pe...

Late last month Marty Lederman flagged the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies’ endorsement of the Front-Page Rule: That informal precept, long employed by the leader...

That's the mixed message of this new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press, which also suggests---among other things---that President Obama's speech is not resonating all that much with t...

In his excellent analysis of the President's NSA speech and PPD-28, Ben suggests that there is less than meets the eye to the President's promise not to listen in on the conversations of foreign leaders ...