I seem to have been a busy little bee this past week, so for those of you who aren’t following me on Twitter, here’s what I’ve gotten up to instead of, you know, blogging here:

In an essay for Newsweek, I argue that Barack Obama should withdraw his threat to veto added GAO oversight of the [...]

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With former DHSer Stewart Baker on Wikileaks and intelligence oversight:

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With NYU’s Jay Rosen about the curious customs of American political journalists:

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You’ve probably already seen these if you follow me on Twitter but:

C-SPAN taped a Hill event I did on reforming federal electronic privacy law, with Greg Nojeim of CDT and Will DeVries from Google.
I had a piece up at Newsweek on Friday discussing what’s right and wrong about Rand Paul’s views on the Civil Rights [...]

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Believe it or not, I didn’t pick the headline “The Corrosion of War Without End”—a preposterously obscure quotation from legendary Autobot leader Fortress Maximus (in Marvel Comics’ “Headmasters” #1, 1987):

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A little happy-hour jawboning about politics and comic books sounds like a pretty great way to spend a Tuesday after work.  This admittedly makes me a huge dork, but fortunately, D.C. is full of huge dorks. So I hope those of you in the area will join me tomorrow at the Laughing Man Tavern from [...]

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I’ve got a longish piece over at The American Prospect that looks at how the Obama administration worked to kill the National Security Letter reforms that Obama once campaigned on—and even borrowed a page from Bush by retroactively reinterpreting the law to excuse systematic illegal surveillance.

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For those who didn’t want to sit through the full panel, here’s an eight minute excerpt:

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