Brought to you by Andy McCarthy: The Court’s action sustains the Sixth Circuit’s decision that the ACLU and its co-plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the program. (I wrote about that decision for the Weekly Standard, here.) This underscores that the President had constitutional authority to order warrantless surveillance; that the cooperating telecoms were […]

[Read more →]

I take a look at the movement to draft the academic rock-star at Ars Technica, including the first statement I’ve seen in any of these stories from Lessig himself, who is at least giving the prospect serious consideration.

[Read more →]

Apparently, this is a popular question. And it’s popular because it keeps the focus on whether opponents of unchecked surveillance have somehow failed to notice the very real threat we face. If you concede that of course we all understand that threat, then you might have to admit the real problem is simply that some […]

[Read more →]

Tim Lee, writing over at Cato, absolutely explodes a profoundly moronic defense of the Senate FISA bill. Seriously, programmers working on compression algorithms should study this article; it is a work of nearly miraculously dense mendacity, with a ratio of falsehoods to pixels approaching unity. What I really want to second here, though, is not […]

[Read more →]

So, I’ve started in on the site redesign, which will involve shifting to the WordPress content management system. I still have a lot of work to do in terms of creating new logo art, tweaking the colors, etcetera, etcetera. But the basic layout I’m planning to go with is here if folk have thoughts/advice/cries of […]

[Read more →]

I heard the following exchange on Morning Edition a couple of hours ago: Renee Montagne: The bush administration says that if the Protect America Act—that’s this surveillance act that’s temporary at the moment—if it isn’t made permanent, it will tie your hands, intelligence hands, especially when it comes to new threats. But isn’t it true […]

[Read more →]

Ars Technica, Democracy in America, Techdirt.

[Read more →]

Perfect.

[Read more →]

Martin Luther King made Nichelle Nichols stay on Star Trek!

[Read more →]

…at Ars.

[Read more →]