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With the current controversies over the NSA's surveillance programs, I want to return to broader issues about how to think about the role of courts in the national-security area.
In this area, governme...
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Bruce Ackerman has a piece in the FP arguing that Senator Wyden, who has been disappointed in the quantity and quality of Executive branch disclosures related to surveillance, should “let Americans know ...
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Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling. It was filed yesterday.
Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou...
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Here's the "Primary Collection Order" authorizing the collection of telephone metadata, signed by FISC Judge Roger Vinson (signed April 25 and expiring on July 19th, 2013), declassified.
Also declassifi...
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A big hearing is taking place this morning at 9am before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Media report that the Verizon order will be declassified at this hearing.
Catch it live at the
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In light of yesterday's events in the Bradley Manning case, I really want to see this fascinating-looking documentary:
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After hearing evidence in a contested bench trial, Army Colonel Denise Lind, a military trial judge, found Pfc.
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From The Guardian's live blog:
Manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge of "aiding the enemy". However the private has been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act....
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Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight. He maintains that...
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Cora Currier at Pro Publica has an important story on why DOD won’t publish the list of AUMF “associated forces” against whom we are at war. DOD’s rationale:
A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that re...
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A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly