Patriot Act

Of the many abuses that sprung from the Patriot Act’s toxic soil, the most pernicious and enduring is the growth of secret laws. The insistence that the government must not only…

20 years ago, Congress enacted the PATRIOT Act. It's time to move on from that outmoded model of surveillance.

The need to respond forcefully to the insurrection should not be conflated with the need for new legal authorities.

As in the days after 9/11, the current challenges stemming from COVID-19 seem unprecedented. But the parallels are striking.

Hastily drafted laws passed under pressure tend to create new problems while doing little to counter threats from terrorists and violent extremists.

The new Section 215 "call detail records" program is still ineffective and doesn't justify the privacy threats it poses.

On this day, 16 years ago, President George W. Bush signed into law the most sweeping, publicly acknowledged domestic surveillance authority in American history. Enacted six weeks…

BuzzFeed News recently reported serious allegations that the Treasury Department’s Office of Intelligence Affairs (OIA) is illegally accessing and analyzing the ­financial records…

A few reporters have asked me about a slightly odd exchange between GOP presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz at last night’s primary debate, so I thought it might…

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…

Last week’s opinion in Klayman v. Obama by Judge Richard Leon dealt another, emphatic(!) blow to the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk phone record surveillance program under…

A long time 12 days ago, I wrote a post sharply criticizing the Second Circuit for deciding not to decide the Fourth Amendment question in ACLU v. Clapper, which arises from the…