If the NSA’s massive intelligence operation sounds like a certain Bush-era program, that’s because it is. Continue reading…

I talked with Terry Gross about surveillance, data mining, and the recent revelations of NSA intelligence programs. Listen here.

A primer on what we know, what we might infer, and the big unanswered questions about the government’s collection of Americans’ phone records. Continue reading…

In a major speech on US national security, the President signaled that some wartime authorities will not be withdrawn. Continue reading…    

My op-ed in today’s New York Times looks at a decade of secret government surveillance and why we’re still powerless against it.

A just-published paper offers new insights and intriguing details about the New York Times’ 2005 blockbuster on government spying. More here.

  Why is the government pressing so hard to find leaks of classified information? Because it can. More here.

Have a bunch of Silicon Valley computer geeks figured out how to stop terrorists?

I was a guest on this week’s “On the Media,” talking about the renewal of the Patriot Act, and whether the Obama administration is secretly interpreting the law in a way that allows the government to collect more information.

Before a team of elite Navy forces stormed Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, they and senior US officials had closely studied a digital mock-up of the facility and even a physical miniature, able to be laid out on a table. It showed them the intelligence community’s best guess about what Bin Laden’s hiding […]