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Air Travel, Disrupted: Welcome to the New Normal
[graphic: Live radar from 15-AUG-2015, via @FlightRadar24]Air travelers along the U.S. east coast experienced flight cancellations and delays this past Saturday, due to initially unspecified “technical...
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Monday Morning: First, Same as the Last
[image via bazbizSF via Flickr]Hear that sound? Like so many sighs of resignation? Yup, it’s the first Monday of the new year, and with it, a plethora of shiny resolutions slowly breached and broken...
View ArticleAir Traffic: A Lesson on Pandemic Economics from the Airlines
As yesterday’s presser and tweets make clear, Donald Trump is jonesing to reopen the economy in the United States. He’s doing that even as the airline industry is weighing whether to voluntarily shut...
View ArticleFailed Overseers Prepare to Legislate Away Successful Oversight
Before I talk about the Gang of Four’s proposed ideas to crack down on leaks, let’s review what a crop of oversight failures these folks are. The only one of the Gang of Four who has stayed out of the...
View ArticleCongress Finally Gets Around to Learning about Domestic Drones and Privacy
After Congress has spent the last several years telling DOD and FAA to speed up the roll out of drones in domestic airspace, and partly in response to efforts (by Rand Paul, among others) to protect...
View ArticleIt’s Hard to Summarize Opinions Pertaining to Two Purportedly Unrelated Laws
Steven Aftergood relays the explanation of a senior intelligence official as to why the intelligence community can’t release even a teensy little bit of the FISA Court’s classified opinions. “We...
View ArticleWondering Wednesday: Suicide in Singapore, Drone Over Brooklyn, and Telco...
Help me get over the hump and clue me in on a few things. I’ve been scratching my head wondering about these topics. Suicide in Singapore — The recent “suicide” of a U.S. electronics engineer in...
View ArticleSaxby Chambliss Reveals the Game
In an article explaining why Dianne Feinstein is in no rush to hold a hearing on the massive dragnet sucking up your communication and mine, Saxby Chambliss is quoted as saying, “We so rarely have open...
View ArticleThe Intelligence Community’s Willful Ignorance about Americans Caught in 702...
Given the Intelligence Community’s reluctant and partial disclosures on the Section 702 (PRISM/FAA) collection, I want to return to a squabble from last fall, before Congress reauthorized FAA. As...
View ArticleAncient History: December 2012 in the Dragnet
PCLOB tells us that the FISA Court approved a new automated query system (versions appear to have been in development for years, and it replaced the automated alert system from 2009) in late 2012 that...
View ArticleThe OTHER Assault on the Fourth Amendment in the NDAA? Drones at Your Airport?
Steven Aftergood notes that the Army just issued new directives for the use of drones in civilian airspace. The new directives include nothing earth shattering (my favorite part is the enclosure from...
View ArticleIf Domestic Drones Are All Civil, Then Why Are They in the Defense...
I’m working my way up to a post on the cognitive dissonance the government’s treatment of Hedges v. Obama seems to have created over at Lawfare. But first I want to note something odd about this Ben...
View ArticleBoeing 737 MAX 9: The Comment Heard Around The World
A comment posted in Leeham News on January 16 convinced me the topic of Boeing 737 quality and safety needs a post here at emptywheel. The post Boeing 737 MAX 9: The Comment Heard Around The World...
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