An Irish court rules on the subject---in response to U.S. requests for extradition help. The opinion is actually an interesting window into U.S. efforts to get countries to impede Snowden's travel. Botto...

This strikes me as a big deal---a big shift in public attitudes on civil liberties and counter-terrorism. A new Quinnipiac poll shows a majority of Americans describing Edward Snowden as a whistle-blower...

Wells blogged on Monday about EPIC's new original filing in the Supreme Court, seeking mandamus, prohibition, or certiorari from the Justices to review Judge Vinson's now-leaked FISA Court order with reg...

Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair.   I now have Glenn Greenwald's response.  Here's some of what he had to say: Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi...

This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least.  The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...

Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...

The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....

The emerging controversy about the USG spying on European allies brings to mind the ECHELON controversy a dozen years ago.  (FAS has a page that collects information on ECHELON.)  ECHELON was a signals i...