Late Night Thoughts on the Patriot Act: Size Matters

With George W. Bush paying his last tribute to European allies, and the potential for a strategic inflection point with the choice for a new American president, here are some thoughts for more benign supporters of the current administration (i.e. myself) on what I consider the President’s most enduring legacy of his mandate, namely The [...]

Intelligence and/or Ethics

The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)’s The World This Week briefings feature several recent publications on the U.S. domestic intelligence and ethics debates.
In Domestic Spy War Intensifies, the author examines proposed amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that have sparked up a heated controversy in the security vs. civil liberty dispute.
NSA Eavesdropping is a backgrounder [...]