Outside the Beltway

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

Police and the Punisher Skull

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

An interesting statement from his National Security Advisor.

The proxy war is working.

The West continues to close Moscow off.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Mike Lindell’s behavior is both farcical and dangerous.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

But, still very bad.

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

We can’t punish every politician with a mental problem, but some are clearly unfit for office.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

A legendary newsman has passed.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

The real crime is what’s legal.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.