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This strikes me as a big deal---a big shift in public attitudes on civil liberties and counter-terrorism. A new Quinnipiac poll shows a majority of Americans describing Edward Snowden as a whistle-blower...
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Wells blogged on Monday about EPIC's new original filing in the Supreme Court, seeking mandamus, prohibition, or certiorari from the Justices to review Judge Vinson's now-leaked FISA Court order with reg...
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Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair. I now have Glenn Greenwald's response. Here's some of what he had to say:
Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi...
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC"), an advocacy and litigation group, today petitioned for a writ of mandamus or prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, in the Supreme Court. The filing's ...
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This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...
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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper:
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...
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That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times). It begins as follows:
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...
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The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....
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On March 12 of this year, Senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, whether the National Security Agency gathers “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of mi...
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A group of twenty-six senators yesterday wrote to DNI James Clapper, and inquired about the executive branch's application of the USA PATRIOT ACT---chiefly, it seems, the "business records" provision set...
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I'm the subject of today's installment of the Council on Foreign Relations' otherwise excellent "Interviews" series--an effort to distill the nuances of hot-button legal issues for a more diverse audienc...