In Parts I and II of this series, I focused on the Review Group recommendations from Chapter III of the group's report. Starting in this post, I turn to the recommendations of Chapter IV, which deal with...

On Friday Jack offered some thoughts on Evgeny Morozov's piece in the Financial Times about the broader implications of the Snowden revelations, overlooked by those intent on fitting each new leak into a...

Having now read Judge William Pauley's opinion in ACLU v. Clapper, I am largely, though not completely, in agreement with Peter Margulies's assessment of the matter. The opinion is a useful corrective to...

Friday’s ruling by S.D.N.Y. judge William H. Pauley in Clapper is a welcome corrective to the anti-metadata clamor triggered by Judge Leon’s Klayman opinion and the President’s Review Group Report.  Whil...

Evgeny Morosov has an interesting piece in the FT that asks about the broader and mostly ignored implications of Snowden’s revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance.  He argues that controlling the...

With the release of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies reporters and commentators have scrambled to make sense of the 308 pages...

After suggesting general reforms to both 215 collection and national security letters, the Review Group then turns to the subject of bulk metadata.

The report of the President’s Review Group on NSA matters has already received widespread attention, some of it high altitude, some of it more granular. It’s an ambitious document, both conceptually and ...

The President Review Group's ("PRG") Report, released last week, makes nearly four-dozen individual recommendations related to foreign intelligence surveillance, privacy, civil liberties oversight respon...

Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security.  And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...