by Spencer Ackerman | May 30, 2013 | Monitor
From email privacy to national security, Rand Paul is probably the Senate’s premier civil libertarian. As he tours Silicon Valley, he talks about his causes with Wired.
by Spencer Ackerman | May 29, 2013 | Monitor
Obama seemed to say last week that U.S. drones are out of the business of killing militants who aren’t senior al-Qaida leaders. Then he killed a Pakistani Taliban leader this morning.
by Spencer Ackerman | May 23, 2013 | Monitor
A prominent legislator thinks it’s time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he’s going to introduce a bill to repeal it.
by Spencer Ackerman | May 23, 2013 | Monitor
Drone strikes will remain a fixture of U.S. counterterrorism. But President Obama, in a major speech, signaled that he’s going to rein in their use.
by Spencer Ackerman | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We’ll see.