Outside the Beltway

The former CIA Director received no jail time and a nuisance-level fine in exchange for a guilty plea to espionage charges.

The most widely honored General from the Iraq and Afghanistan War has plead guilty to sharing classified information with his mistress.

David Petraeus provided highly classified secrets to his mistress. Will he be charged?

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

The Navy Special Warfare community is angry at SEALs exploiting their part in the bin Laden raid.

The US intelligence community is gambling that it can be more efficient through a public-private partnership than going it alone.

Retired General Keith Alexander is hawking his services to banks at princely sums.

Two news items yesterday advanced in some small measure the protection of journalists from having to reveal sources under Court Order.

A bizarre case in Alabama highlights a more bizarre judicial precedent.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

Bill Clinton seems far more understanding of Edward Snowden than the current President

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

Who should qualify as a “journalist” for purposes of a “Shield Law?”

Bradley Manning will be spending a long time at Leavenworth.

Bradley Manning will learn his fate at 1 pm tomorrow. He’s guilty.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

NSA Metadata coming to a courtroom near you?

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”