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I was on the same panel as Orin at Monday's day-long hearing before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and think there's a lot to commend his proposal for a statutory rule of lenity as a tool...
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Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi...
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In August 2012, thanks to YouGov, I launched my first national survey to probe more deeply about what Americans know about intelligence agencies, what they think about controversial intelligence programs...
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So, what are we to make of claims that the NSA scandal will lead other countries to set up their own non-USA cloud? I really can't speak to the political imperative, but this is pretty notable: Google ...
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At yesterday's hearing of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, I argued that a "rule of lenity" for foreign intelligence surveillance law could be a helpful way to regulate national security ...
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Word has it that Edward Snowden might be willing to travel to Germany to testify to a public prosecutor or an investigating committee of the German parliament that is looking into mass surveillance. How...
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Reasonable people can disagree about NSA surveillance in general and about whether Congress should authorize or forbid bulk metadata collection in particular. I have never questioned the good faith of Se...
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Raffaela's piece this morning offers a granular breakdown of what the major FISA reform proposals would do across a number of different axes. In reading both it and the bills it describes, I had four bri...
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Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...
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The CIA's efforts to deny the ACLU's FOIA requests for records about the Agency's involvement in drone-based targeted killings continue apace in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The ...
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A few days ago, I posted a response to David Cole's Just Security post that had argued for U.S. law protecting the privacy of foreigners abroad.
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Last night's vote was, apparently, 11-4. The committee-backed legislation, called the FISA Improvements Act of 2013, can be found here.