Victoria Toensing is a conservative attorney and legal commentator who previously served as chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration. She contributed to The Weekly Standard on national security law topics, including constitutional surveillance powers, military tribunals, and the Benghazi investigation. She is a founding partner of the law firm diGenova & Toensing LLP.
The White House has touted the Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigation of the Benghazi massacre as a review “led by two men of unimpeachable expertise and credibility that oversaw a process that was rigorous and unsparing.” In fact, the report was purposefully incomplete and willfully…
Changing the Zip Code of the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorists from New York City to Somewhere, U.S.A. does not solve the problems a civilian trial raised in the first place. The decision does provide some justice because hundreds of millions of dollars in security costs…
In the aftermath of the New York Times's illegal disclosure of surveillance by the National Security Agency, the Senate now debates whether to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the law that formulates a procedure for the president to obtain warrants to wiretap foreign…