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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a hearing this morning concerning the future of the AUMF, featuring DOD General Counsel Stephen Preston, State Department Principle Deputy Legal Adviser Mary Ma...
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For those who haven’t been following super-closely, the Manager’s Amendment to H.R. 3361—the USA FREEDOM Act—is now slated to be considered by the full House of Representatives in the coming days.
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"I believe that killing an American citizen without a trial is an extraordinary concept and deserves serious debate," writes Sen. Rand Paul in an oped in the New York Times this morning. "I can’t imagine...
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I recently posted a new draft article on FISA reform, A Rule of Lenity for National Security Surveillance Law, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here's the abstract:
This essay argues that Congr...
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IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents:
DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...
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This was bound to happen eventually, I suppose: the New York Times editorial page has gotten behind the effort to hold up David Barron's judicial nomination. Sort of. Calling Barron, whom Obama has nomin...
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The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Conc...
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Ashley beat me to the punch in flagging today’s news about Rep.
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Over at Foreign Policy, Dan Lamothe reports that Rep. Duncan Hunter will introduce legislation on May 7 that would authorize the Executive Branch to target the individuals who attacked the U.S.
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Now available: a six-strong batch of
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What follows is a quick recap on the status of FISA transparency reporting (most of this was news in late January but is summarized here with some useful links) along with a couple of observations on wha...
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Richard Clarke and Peter Swire, two of the five members of the President’s Intelligence Review Group, argue at The Daily Beast that the NSA should rarely keep (as opposed to disclose, and allow patching ...