It's bad enough that the Fourth Circuit just upheld most of Jeffrey Sterling's convictions. But they did so in really troubling fashion.

Nothing in today's Senate Intelligence Committee's hearing nor the House Intelligence Committee hearing changed the fact the U.S. election system was penetrated last year. We should be very concerned.

The inclusion of Gareth Williams among those deaths that US and UK spooks believe was a Russian assassination has interesting implications for Shadow Brokers' focus on SWIFT.

It turns out John Bates had the same questions about how an "active user" gets defined for upstream surveillance. But we don't know what kind of answers he got to those questions.

Back in 2010, the government asked to use Section 702 against US persons. The FISA Court backed them down off that request. Then, six months later, the government admitted it had been collecting US person communications all along.