Outside the Beltway

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

Christine Fox, the real-life inspiration for Charlie of “Top Gun,” and the casual sexism of 1985.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

Social scientists take note: the press has gotten bored with Syria, so your data are no longer reliable.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

A starting point for two important stories.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

ThinkProgress’ Hayes Brown reports that, contrary to his claim that he was demoted for speaking up on the Benghazi attacks, Gregory Hicks was instead demoted for being a bad manager.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

It’s 365 days and counting since the last reported case of piracy in the Horn of Africa.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

The American people aren’t panicking.

Arming the Syrian rebels may do nothing more than prolong a seemingly endless war, and pull the United States into a conflict it shouldn’t be involved in.

The story of an American Green Beret found living in Vietnam 44 years after he had been declared dead appears to be a hoax.

President Obama said today that he wants to move forward with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay but there’s little he can do on his own.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

After months of impasse, a new coalition has been formed in Italy.