Our special guest this week is Michael Allen, former Majority Staff Director of the House intelligence committee. Mike is the founder of Beacon Global Strategies and the author of Blinking Red, the story of the creation of the Director of National Intelligence.
We drag him into the program from the beginning, getting his…
There may be a lot less to the NSA “scandal” than meets the eye. In an article for Foreign Policy, I explain why I am quite confident that the program underlying the FISA court order is lawful:
[T]his is not some warrantless or extra-statutory surveillance program. The government had to persuade up to a…
On June 13, Stewart Baker commented on the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of two Chinese telecom firms. Today, Stewart was quoted by Eliza Krigman on the fine balance between security and economic concerns that this investigation brings to light.
The House Intelligence Committee is conducting a remarkably detailed and bipartisan investigation (subscription required) of ties between two Chinese telecom equipment giants, Huawei and ZTE, and the Chinese government. Widespread security fears have been targeted at these companies over concerns that their equipment would enable Chinese interception of US telephone calls, expanding American cybervulnerabilities…
