Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

The Compensating For Something Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

The GOP Balloon Release Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

Our good friend Hamid Karzai, contemplating a war between the United States and our good allies Pakistan, says that he would of course fight with Pakistan.

Byron York argues that the lesson of Rick Perry’s candidacy is “Think before you run.”

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan said so in a recent interview, and it’s a stunning statistic if true. But it’s probably not.

Four American soldiers are now on the ground in Libya. Reports have them wearing boots.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Flashback: When David Petraeus was simply known as “Peaches” & was a member of the “French Club”

Government workers are among society’s favorite whipping boys. Why?

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.