Jared Kushner ‘Loses’ Top Secret Clearance (But Maybe Not Access)
The White House chief of staff has downgraded the President’s son-in-law’s access to classified information. We’ll see how long that lasts.
The White House chief of staff has downgraded the President’s son-in-law’s access to classified information. We’ll see how long that lasts.
The Obama Administration called and wants its foreign policy back.
The President’s fecklessness here is incredible. Either take these people out of sensitive posts or take the responsibility for granting them waivers.
The octogenarian failed to get her party’s endorsement for a sixth term.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.
Mexico’s President canceled a visit to the United States for the second time since Donald Trump became President due to a continued disagreement over who will pay for Trump’s border wall.
President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.
The Defense Department will reportedly recommend to President Trump that transgender members of the service currently serving in the military be allowed to continue serving.
President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.
The Mueller investigation moves forward.
Continuing a long-standard tradition, the Trump Administration claims it doesn’t need to get legal authorization to keep American troops in Syria.
National Security Adviser H.L. McMaster is the latest person rumored to be considering moving on from the Trump Administration.
The U.S. Army is once again embroiled in an internecine fight over hats.
While the glass ceiling in high-level posts was shattered decades ago, men still dominate the field.
Elliot Cohen laments the lack of steel in the spine of the statesmen, diplomats, soldiers, and thinkers of the current generation.
Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.
President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.
Pork barrel politics is complicating Germany’s replacement of its 1970s fighter jet.
Donald Trump is now claiming that he had never denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is, of course, not true.
Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.
Even with yesterday’s indictments, President Trump still won’t acknowledge reality even though it’s staring him in the face.
Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.
A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.
More security clearance problems for the White House.
Another day, another Court ruling against the Trump Administration.
President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.
Why does the U.S. continue to pursue the seemingly impossible goal of denuclearization with regard to North Korea? In part, it’s because we’re still locked into thirty-year-old rhetoric.
Intelligence officials are warning that the Russians are set to seek to influence the 2018 elections just as they did in 2016. Despite this, the Trump Administration refuses to acknowledge this publicly while the President seeks to undermine the investigation into past Russian interference.
A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.
Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.
Expecting North Korea to agree to diplomatic talks that are aimed at getting rid of their nuclear weapons is asking for the impossible, and ensuring there will be no progress on the diplomatic front for the foreseeable future.
More than a year into the Trump Presidency, dozens of White House personnel lack proper security clearances.
Donald Trump has blocked the release of a memo prepared by House Intelligence Committee Democrats to rebut the Nunes memo. It’s hard not to see this as a blatantly partisan move.
A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.
Contrary to the claims that were made by conservatives and Trump supporters before its release, the memo prepared by Congressman Devin Nunes has done nothing to undermine the Russia investigation.
Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.
Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.
Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.
They’re right. And there’s precious little they can do about it.
A confusing new report from the Washington Post.
Senator Mark Warner, Vice-Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, says, “We Need Revolution, Not Just Evolution” in Security Clearances.”
My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.
National Review legal analyst David French argues that the Nunes memo actually undermines the central claim its proponents were seeking to bolster.