New reports from the Congressional Research Service, not readily available to the public, include these. “Intelligence Issues for Congress” (pdf), July 12, 2006. “Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah: The Current Conflict” (pdf), July 21,…
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to govern surveillance of foreign intelligence targets within the U.S., has had an unusually dynamic legislative history. It has…
In a rare judicial denial of an official “state secrets” claim, a federal court yesterday rejected (pdf) a government assertion that a lawsuit against AT&T alleging illegal wiretapping should be…
A new legislative initiative (S. 2590) would require the government to disclose and to publish online all federal contracts, grants, and other forms of spending. “I like to think of…
The role of deception in military operations is illuminated and elaborated in a new Department of Defense doctrinal publication (pdf). Military deception refers to “those actions executed to deliberately mislead…