The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank devotes his Washington sketch column to a jargon-filled, tedious speech given yesterday by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. Hadley talked at the Proliferation Security Initiative, where he praised U.S. non-proliferation efforts and trashed international non-proliferation bodies like the International Atomic Energy Agency. Milbank notes ...

A Justice Dept. audit released yesterday shows that widespread complaints by FBI officials in 2003 over military and CIA interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay went ignored. Nearly half of the 450 FBI agents that the Justice Dept. inspector genral interviewed who worked at Guantanamo Bay said they personally witnessed brutal ...

The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima reports that telecom companies are providing the FBI with “transactional data”—the time, duration and parties involved in a phone conversation.  The law enforcement agency is then sharing that information with intelligence agencies such as the CIA and National Security Agency. How does this ...

Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal has put together a powerful overview of the National Security Agency's information-gathering activities, and those of domestic security agencies, including the FBI.  Gorman notes that the NSA's efforts "have evolved to reach more broadly into data about people's communications, travel and finances in ...

The Bush administration's penchant for secrecy runs into trouble when it seeks to prosecute individuals using evidence obtained in potential violation of federal law.  Jerry Markon of the Washington Post writes about intelligence materials that could influence the appeal of a Virginia-based radical Muslim cleric, but that neither the prosecution (in this case, the U.S. government) or the defense have access to.  

Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal reports that large telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T participated in electronic eavesdropping by the National Security Agency based on letters from then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush's legal counsel.