Outside the Beltway

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

Apparently, the security at Tuesday’s memorial for Nelson Mandela was so lax as to be nearly non-existent.

An unusual challenge to the NSA’s data mining program reaches its expected end in the Supreme Court.

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

According to reports, the President had no idea that the NSA was listening to the phone calls of foreign leaders until this summer.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

Not surprisingly, Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are lining up behind the President in the debate over Syria.

Courts gave the NSA broad powers to intercept overseas communications of Americans . . . 30 years ago.

There’s a hearing at Gitmo so secret that even the people having the hearing aren’t allowed to know what it’s about.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

The government contractor that conducted Edward Snowden’s background investigation faces criminal indictment.

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

Think of it as the spy version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

New technology brings the day of round the clock tracking of citizens who’ve done nothing wrong ever closer.

A privacy rights group has filed a Petition with the Supreme Court regarding recent actions by the FISA Court.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says revealing that the United States is spying on its allies has undermined their trust.

Chief Justice Roberts is the only person who gets to say who sits on the FISA Court.

Don’t blame “secret courts” for the government’s expanded spying on American citizens and allies.