As I noted in an earlier post, the UK High Court in an opinion by Lord Justice John Laws dismissed David Miranda’s suit challenging his detention by the Metropolitan Police at London’s Heathrow Airport o...

This morning, the UK’s Royal Court of Justice dismissed David Miranda’s application for judicial review of his nearly nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport last August. The Metropolitan police...

For those of you who just can't get enough of debates featuring Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf, who appeared debating me on drones in this week's episode of the Lawfare Podcast. .

This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U...

Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story...

In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ...

Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the National Security Agency is now only collecting "about 20% or less" of U.S. telephony metadata under the Section 215 program now acknowledged by the g...

One of the policy questions kicked to the DNI in PDD-28 was defining the permissible uses of bulk collection. Thanks to Thomas Earnest over at Just Security, I just noticed that the DNI has now done so.

This one is a strong competitor.  I'm trying to think of other uses for this "precedent" -- no power or water for the Army (by peace activists).   Or power for Obamacare servers.  I wonder if these State...