Outside the Beltway

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

So the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan in an attempt to get bin Laden family DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, China’s GDP growth has been impressive for some time now, but it is not the sole way to understand development.

Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman reports on an alleged secret CIA interrogation facility somewhere in the former Soviet Union.

Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

An ex-CIA agent says that someone in the Bush White House tried to use the agency to “discredit” Iraq War critic Juan Cole.

The ISI appears to have shown a special interest in informants that helped the CIA find bin Laden.

Would it be unconstitutional for Congress to extend Mueller’s term?

Pawlenty proposes the “Google test.”

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

The Eats, Shoots and Leaves Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

The Night Recap Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.

John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

Joe Biden: During several months of planning for the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, ” as many as 16 members of Congress that were briefed on it, not a single solitary thing leaked.”

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Breaking News.

CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

The law of war is not fully clear when applied to modern conflicts.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

President Obama has pledged no slaughter and no ground troops for Libya. He may well be forced to pick one.

LTC Michael Holmes, the fellow who accused LTG William Caldwell of ordering him to perform psychological operations on Members of Congress, is not trained in psyops.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Time for midterms.