Outside the Beltway

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

The 45th President was a psychopath.

Because of course he did.

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Lock her up?

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?

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

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

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

The U.S. military will no longer release reports regarding the success, or failure, of the current strategy in Afghanistan.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans say they won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. but that’s only half the battle for Democrats

The other shoe has dropped.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

A 2016 Trump Campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against the President alleging that she was assaulted by Trump during the campaign.

The ignominious saga of Anthony Weiner appears to have reached its end.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

A new report indicates that President Trump wanted to use the Justice Department to target political enemies. The last time that happened, it led to Articles of Impeachment.

In news replete with irony, it’s being reported that Ivanka Trump used a private email account to communicate about government business.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

President Trump’s private phone calls are apparently a major source of intelligence for foreign nations.

The former CIA Director has been stripped of his access to classified information after repeatedly criticizing the President.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

There was some degree of humor in the Dept. of Justice’s Inspector General’s report.

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General found that former F.B.I. Director James Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in regard to the Clinton email investigation, but found no evidence of political bias at the Bureau.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.