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From last Monday, here is video of the Federalist Society's event, "The NSA, Security, Privacy, and Intelligence."
Panel I: Foreign Intelligence Collection and the FISA Court
Mr. Harley Geiger, Senior...
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Well, not really. But you know that a trend is going against the NSA when the American Bar Association offers a course entitled, "The Ethical Implications of NSA Surveillance." According to the the ABA...
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Lawyers love a good fight on definitions, and debate about the § 215 metadata program has raged on the meaning of the statutory language, “relevant to an authorized investigation.” Critics link complian...
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District court proceedings in Klayman v. Obama ended with a bang back in December, with D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruling that bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is...
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As I noted in an earlier post, the UK High Court in an opinion by Lord Justice John Laws dismissed David Miranda’s suit challenging his detention by the Metropolitan Police at London’s Heathrow Airport o...
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This morning, the UK’s Royal Court of Justice dismissed David Miranda’s application for judicial review of his nearly nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport last August. The Metropolitan police...
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For those of you who just can't get enough of debates featuring Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf, who appeared debating me on drones in this week's episode of the Lawfare Podcast. .
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This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U...
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Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story...
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In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ...
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The ACLU's Ben Wizner and Daniel Ellsberg vs. former CIA Director James Woolsey and Andrew McCarthy:
Snowden Was Justified from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv
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Have at it: a trio of freshly declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC").