As a general rule, going on television reminds me why I’ve chosen a career in print, but between the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act and the David Petraeus scandal, I’ve nevertheless ended up making a handful of small-screen appearances in the past couple months. For those of you who are into that sort of […]

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Explaining the government’s order seeking Twitter information in the WikiLeaks investigation on The Alyona Show:

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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