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Shane Harris on Total Information Awareness and Colorado
As soon as I saw this Wall Street Journal oped yesterday from Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., I thought to myself--and said to Ritika--we need to hear from Shane Harris on this. Now we have. Jenkins had suggest... -
Carrie Cordero On the FAA Reauthorization
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown's Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following account of a recent Cato Institute event (which, ahem, would have... -
STOCK Act Endangers National Security and Safety of Executive Branch Officials
In March, Congress passed the Stop Insider Trading in Congressional Knowledge Act (the STOCK Act), which was intended to prevent members of Congress from trading in securities based on non-public informa... -
Federalist Society Teleforum on Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l
This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C... -
Michael Chertoff on Google's Safari Hack
Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings. Here's the introduction: In the cyber age, privac... -
Gabriella Blum on Spiders and "Invisible Threats"
Gabriella Blum has a new essay out entitled, "Invisible Threats." Part of the Emerging Threats series of the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law (of which Jack, Ken, ... -
Senator Paul's Proposal to Curb Domestic Drone Surveillance
FAA, eat your heart out. From The Hill, we learn that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has proposed legislation to curb the use of drones for domestic surveillance. The heart of his "Preserving Freedom from Un... -
Post-Conviction Motions Denied in Lashkar e-Taiba Material Support Case (United States v. Rana)
Tahawwur Hussain Rana was convicted of providing support to Lashkar e-Taiba (18 USC 2339B) and conspiring to provide support to a group planning to commit murder in Denmark, but was acquitted of conspiri... -
More on NYPD and Local Counterterrorism Intelligence
As I’ve argued previously here (at length) and here (briefly), if you are interested in government counterterrorism intelligence activities and privacy, don’t just pay attention at the federal level – th... -
More on Clapper and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Exception
I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell... -
Why Clapper Matters: The Future of Programmatic Surveillance
In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w... -
Cert. Granted in <i>Clapper v. Amnesty International</i>
Ben noted the non-action on the cert. petitions in the Guantanamo cases (which probably means either that the Justices aren't sure what to do, or that someone is publishing a dissent from the decision to...
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