This past Friday, District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s ("ACLU") challenge to the government’s bulk...

The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight.

Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now.

Back in September, I wrote the following: Imagine you were a high-level decision-maker in a clandestine intelligence agency. Imagine that you had played by the rules Congress had laid out for you, worked...

Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ...

The NSA had come knocking.  It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States.  That request’s stagg...

The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big.  But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise;  at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are...

Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today.  By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...

On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today. We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...

That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,...

Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.