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At 1:00 pm, CIA Director John Brennan will speak at the Council on Foreign Relations on the agency's strategy for strengthening intelligence-gathering capabilities and how the agency will be restructured...
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The New York Times today has an op-ed by the founder of Wikipedia called Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users.
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The estimable Chris Jenks writes in from Australia with the following thoughts on my piece yesterday on the David Petraeus plea:
Appreciated your comments on Petraeus. One additional factor which resonat...
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Over at The Intercept, Peter Maass complains that the plea deal for David Petraeus is "yet another example of a senior official treated leniently for the sorts of violations that lower-level officials ar...
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By now, most readers will be familiar with the news reports that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account (hdr22@clintonemail.com) for her official work while Secretary of State. Most of the news h...
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Update: After this essay was written, but before it was posted, the White House issued a memo and accompanying Fact Sheet further elaborating on its plans for CTIIC. For commentary on how those documen...
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We are excited to announce the launch of a new feature here at Lawfare: "The Intelligence Studies Essay," an occasional series curated by the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas.
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At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout...
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It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement:
In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm...
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Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.
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Last week, Ben’s NSA Constitution Day speech emerged after a long “declassification” process. One puzzle Ben grapples with in this speech is why reasonable, educated Americans have--and will continue to...
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In our new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media, my co-editors and I talk at some length about what we characterize as the "fundamental tension" that lies at the heart of news reporting today involv...