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I have maintained a certain agnosticism about Edward Snowden's relationship with the Russian intelligence services up until now. I noted with interest, but unconvinced, statements by congressional intell...
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This past Monday, I had the honor of moderating a panel organized by students at the American University Washington College of Law’s National Security Law Brief, on Understanding the Global Implications ...
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When last we checked in on the metadata preservation saga, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had authorized the government---in contravention of its prior order---to retain metadata beyond the ...
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The recent announcements by the President and the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee marked the beginning of the end of more than a decade of bulk metadata collection by the government under evo...
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On Sunday, the Yale Information Society Project held an excellent symposium on the international policy implications of “Big Data.” I took part in the event (see livestream here), which touched on many t...
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Henry V’s claim to the throne of France is “as clear as is the summer’s sun,” explains the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare’s play. The joke, of course, is that he has come to this conclusion fol...
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Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence...
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Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads."
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My very first Lawfare post, back in December 2011, focused on the messy constitutional question raised by United States v. Ali—a case then pending before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces that ra...
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With the White House conceptual framework and the HPSCI bill on the table, there may be a way forward on telephone metadata collection for foreign intelligence purposes.
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Continuing our dialogue about whether the ICCPR places limits on electronic surveillance by a state outside of its own territory, Ryan Goodman has posted a lengthy response to my response to his post abo...
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The vote was 99-1, according to the Main Justice blog. The lone "nay" was Senator Dean Heller (R-NV).