Yesterday two amicus briefs were filed on behalf of the appellees in Klayman v. Obama, the bulk metadata case up on appeal in the D.C. Circuit.

Yesterday plaintiffs-appellees filed their response in Klayman v. Obama, the Section 215 metadata collection case up on appeal in the D.C. Circuit.

Petitioner Ali al Bahlul, the Yemeni detainee who served as Osama bin Laden's personal assistant and public relations secretary, has just filed his opening brief in Al Bahlul v.

New on the DNI's Tumblr site, IC on the Record: on August 6, and in response to a FOIA request, the Department of Justice released a slew of newly declassified, redacted documents related to the National...

Dan Geer gave this keynote address at the Black Hat conference yesterday.  It is entitled Cybersecurity as Realpolitik.  It begins with some general thoughts on the state of play in cybersecurity, addres...

That's the gist of this statement, made today by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinst...

Here it is; you'll find some background here and here. Today's ruling from a panel of the D.C.

Yesterday the government filed its opening brief in Klayman v. Obama, in a bid to overturn D.C. District Court Judge Richard J.

From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr site, we learn today that on Tuesday, the Department of Justice released three redacted primary orders of the Foreign Intelligence Survei...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department together said this today, apparently in response to an earlier Intercept story on FBI and NSA surveillance of Muslim America...

Yesterday, I posted a short piece saying that we should think about Edward Snowden's leak of large volumes of personal communications to the Washington Post as a significant civil liberties violation. In...

Here is a "pre-release" version of the report; the PCLOB will adopt a final version at its meeting tomorrow morning.  It therefore has offered the still-not-yet-official document to the press and public,...