A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...

This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...

Philip Bobbitt (Columbia Law School, and the author of, among many other things, Terror and Consent) writes in: Three thoughts on the Snowden matter. First, Snowden's strongest point: how can the govern...

Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take.

Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.

Th Washington Post and New York Times report.The three-count criminal complaint---alleging theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communicat...

As the Supreme Court's October 2012 Term enters its climactic closing week, I've been thinking a lot about the most important national security decision of the Term--the 5-4 February 26 decision in

The following is a guest post by Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies.

There is a subtle connection between the unfolding NSA metadata controversy and the controversy that has long plagued the administration's position on drone strikes, involving the impact of transparency ...

The administration issued this statement yesterday on NSA collection under Sections 702 and 215. The entire statement---which describes controls on the programs, their broad parameters, and their value i...

The Washington Post this morning has another big NSA story, this one historical in nature. I'm still digesting it, so for now, I'll just flag key aspects of it.