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In an interview conducted yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan had an interesting exchange with Audrey Kurth Cronin on the subject of al Qaeda’s organizational scope. ...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is currently holding hearings with two nominees for high-ranking military posts: General Paul J. Selva, USAF is being considered for commander of United States Transpo...
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From last Monday, here is video of the Federalist Society's event, "The NSA, Security, Privacy, and Intelligence."
Panel I: Foreign Intelligence Collection and the FISA Court
Mr. Harley Geiger, Senior...
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David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...
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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 ...
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Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").
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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...
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The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN.
The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be:
The Honorable David M...
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Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller report in the WP that Al-Qaeda’s recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has raised questions about whether the AUMF “still applies” to ISIS.
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Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ).
The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C