Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.

I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny.

Luca Urech (Fletcher School, MA candidate in Law and Diplomacy) has written in with the following reaction to my post on the extraterritorial right to privacy, discussing how we might apply the concept o...

So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder. In Clapper v.

Ben and David Cole have been having an exchange (see here and here) about a “universal right to privacy,” including a discussion about what such a right might look like.  Stepping back, it is useful to u...

Last month, I had the privilege of participating in three different forums on the Snowden leaks and congressional considerations of reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): a hearing b...

Responding to posts by Ben Wittes, Orin Kerr, and David Cole (at Just Security), I would like to take the debate in a somewhat different direction.  David makes an argument, based in part on internationa...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this piece about the disgusting efforts of Rep. James Sensenbrenner to wash his hands of bulk metadata collection: Reasonable people can disagree about NSA surveillance in ...