Rahul Sagar is Associate Professor at Yale NUS and the author of the terrific and timely Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy (reviewed favorably by Steven Aftergood on Lawfare and Eric Posner...

Let’s give Edward Snowden his due: He did himself a lot of good in his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, which aired last night. He presents well, coming across as earnest, thoughtful and intelligent....

The ODNI Tumblr site today posted April 2013 e-mail correspondence between Edward Snowden and the NSA's Office of General Counsel---the only such correspondence NSA says it has found.

The 110-page document was released today, and entitled "Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability."   If you care about Big Data, then you will want to read the report.

I am struck by the circumspection of the American press in not revealing the name of the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan whom the Obama Administration inadvertently disclosed over the weekend.  That nam...

It is difficult, if not impossible, for those outside the Intelligence Community to make a fair assessment of how much harm the Snowden leaks did to national security.  And, perhaps, for those inside the...

I've never heard of Fedscoop before, but it seems to have done a video interview with John DeLong, NSA's compliance chief.

Over at the New York Times, Charlie Savage has a good story about civil libertarian irritation over the latest version of the "USA FREEDOM Act," H.R. 3361---which he has also posted.

A group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a Statement of Principles for rebuilding trust in intelligence activities. It is signed by the following people: Charle...

IC on the Record has the latest document dump: Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released, in redacted form, a previously classified series of Foreig...

The best review I have seen of Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is by David Cole in the Washington Post, who concludes: This is an important and illuminating book.