Chapter VI of the Review Group Report deals with proposed organizational changes at NSA, in the executive branch more broadly, and in the FISA court system. These changes are a pretty mixed bag. Some see...

Benjamin Wittes, in his post Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part IV, questioned Recommendation #14 of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Commu...

Two important releases showed up on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr on Friday. First, the General Counsel for the ODNI, Bob Litt, responded to the New York Times Edward Snow...

Jim Geraghty of National Review's "Morning Jolt" has this useful summary of Snowden disclosures that are more related to disclosing foreign surveillance than to disclosing domestic US activity by the NSA...

Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ...

Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15. Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw...

No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v.

Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ...

Yesterday, I raised issues regarding the review group’s process and deliberations. Today’s post focuses on several of the major themes of the report. Tomorrow’s third, and final, post will address what m...

Speaking of Stewart Baker, the former policy chief at DHS and NSA general counsel, he has---over at his Skating on Stilts site, announced the results of his first Privy Awards for dubious accomplishment...

I confess that I was not expecting the first response to my posts analyzing the Review Group recommendations would be one accusing me of going soft on the Review Group. But today, Stewart Baker, former N...

Over the past week and a half, writers on this site have provided comprehensive and detailed summaries of the surveillance review group report, along with some observations and assessments, as well as sh...