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My Speech at ODNI Legal Conference: "Toward Greater Transparency of National Security Legal Work"
I was honored to be invited to give a keynote speech at an Intelligence Community legal conference last Wednesday, May 6. The speech was entitled Toward Greater Transparency of National Security Legal W... -
Hersh's Account of the Bin Laden Raid is Journalistic Malpractice
When a journalist writes a tell-all story about a classified operation, and he suspects the story will catalyze anti-American anger, provide fuel for terrorist groups, and cause severe friction with fore... -
20 Senior Former CIA Officials Criticize NYT For Publishing Names of Covert Operatives
Twenty senior former CIA officials—including every CIA Director (including DCIs) dating back to William Webster (1987-91)—wrote a letter to the NYT to take issue with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet’s d... -
A Few Thoughts on the Second Circuit's 215 Decision and Its Importance
From day one of the Snowden revelations, we all knew that the legal validity of the 215 program hinged ultimately on the capaciousness of a single word: "relevant." Even those of us who generally support... -
New AP Poll on U.S. Targeted Killing Program
A new AP-GFK poll released today finds broad swaths of the American public continue to strongly support the U.S. targeted killing program. The poll was conducted in the days immediately following Preside... -
Another Response to the New York Times Flap
An intelligence community reader writes in with the following response to my post this morning on Dean Baquet's interview with Jack: The issue is not [only] whether the true name and affiliation [of the ... -
DoD Announces Departure of General Counsel Stephen Preston
That's the news from the Pentagon this hour. Preston will step down from his position as General Counsel at the end of June to join the faculty at Yale Law School. The Defense Department released the fo... -
A Thought on Dean Baquet's Comments to Jack
This morning, Jack published an interview he conducted yesterday with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet about the paper's decision the other day to publish the names of three covert CIA officers. -
Interview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on Publication Decisions About Intelligence Secrets, and More
On April 25, two days after President Obama announced that a U.S. drone strike accidentally killed two innocent hostages, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo published a story in the New York Times about congr... -
DNI General Counsel Robert Litt: "The New York Times Disgraced Itself"
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article on congressional support for the C.I.A.'s drone program. In describing the program's leadership, the Times saw fit to reveal the identity of thre... -
"The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television," by Tricia Jenkins
Published by University of Texas Press (2013) Reviewed by Julius Taranto -
In Case You Needed Another Reason to Look Askance at WikiLeaks
Here is one. The organization today posted online what it describes as "an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, t...
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