Hiatt insists on partisan sniping at, for instance, Ron Wyden: An amendment to the Senate bill by Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden would go too far by requiring that a warrant be obtained when U.S. citizens are the target of surveillance overseas; this would be an unnecessary and potentially disruptive precedent. [read post]

Stewart Baker brought us the conversation, which featured guest Ron Deibert, who is the director the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. [read post]

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has signaled that he will consider invoking a seldom used procedure to declassify an Intelligence Committee report on the use of torture by the CIA, if the White House does not move quickly to get parts of the report out to the public. [read post]