Outside the Beltway

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

So much for the President’s promise about ‘no ground troops.’

The plan won’t achieve achieve its stated goals.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

An imperfect timetable, but better than nothing.

If Hillary Clinton runs for President, questions surrounding the Benghazi attack will continue to dog her.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

Just when it became safe to keep your shoes and tablets on, a new threat to the friendly skies has emerged: toothpaste.

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

Democracy was nice while it lasted.

The latest revelations about National Security Agency surveillance outside the United States have caused quite an uproar overseas.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

The U.S. sends a mostly weak signal to the Egyptian military.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

A Federal Judge wasn’t very pleased when Administration lawyers told her that she doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit over the President’s drone policy.

The ACLU is suing over the NSA’s data mining. Does it really have a chance?

The government has your cell phone and credit card records. What can they do with that information?

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

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

The same story yet again.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

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

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

Tragedy in Boston.

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

Here we go again.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

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