Outside the Beltway

Glenn Greenwald asks, “Why won’t the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents?” For the same reason we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

The United States has promised $150 million in aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan. Should we have?

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

It has never been illegal to wear military medals and uniforms to costume parties or while portraying a soldier in a movie.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a US basing rights deal.

The 9th Circuit yesterday ruled that Stolen Valor laws violate the 1st Amendment and that there is a limited right to lie.

Either Obama’s Defense Secretary and commanding general are conspiring to undermine his July 11 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan or that they’re carrying out his intent.

As many American soldiers have died in Afghanistan under Obama as under Bush.

Robert Gates says he wants to retire next year, but will the call of duty cause him to stay longer ?

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?

Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.

Remember when dealing with the utterances of Hugo Chávez that you should take them with a grain of salt (or twelve).

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t say whether she thinks the war in Afghanistan is worth the increasing toll on American blood and treasure.

The requirement that “members act at all times in a way that reflects creditably on the House” has a parallel in the UCMJ’s “conduct unbecoming” clause.

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

The Pentagon can not account for 95 percent of the Iraq oil revenue from 2004 to 2007.

Barbara Boxer has offended some veterans again. This time, she’s right and they’re wrong.

Humor me for a moment: if your life was in danger, would you trust Julian Assange to keep your identity a secret? – Joshua Foust

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

Contrary to what you read on bumper stickers, retired Lt. Col William Astore argues that not every soldier is a hero. He’s right.

With everyone concerned about the budget deficit, the idea of cutting military spending is finally gaining traction on Capitol Hill.

Feldpost für unsere Soldaten is a campaign recognizing the sacrifices of German soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

Recently Lt. Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence to protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Yesterday, he found out that he’d been discharged from the Army because he’s gay.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.

Some people are saying that David Petraeus deserves promotion to a rank last held by Omar Bradley.

The Taliban have a new secret weapon: Monkey terrorist soldiers.

Is Ann Coulter’s defense of Michael Steele’s Afghan War skepticism the beginning of conservative split, or just an attempt to pile on President Obama ?