Outside the Beltway

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr’s defense of campaign law violations against him suffered a big setback yesterday when his wife and co-Defendant entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

Roger Stone is being ordered to Court after an Instagram post that appears to be a direct threat against the Judge presiding over his criminal case.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

For Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter, Jr. being indicted didn’t stop them from being re-elected.

A new report from The New York Times is likely to cause President Trump’s war on the Justice Department to heat up.

Just how far should White House staffers and civil servants go in protecting the public from an erratic president?

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Recently indicted Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. is blaming his apparently estranged wife and the so-called “Deep State” for the fact that he’s charged with embezzling a quarter million dollars from his campaign.

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

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.

The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.

General (Retired) Michael Hayden has some harsh, and concerning, criticisms of the Trump administration.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

For intelligence and law enforcement to function, their leaders must remain outside the partisan fray—even in recent retirement.

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

The FBI’s former deputy director was shamefully fired late Friday night, after which President Trump gloated on Twitter.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

The British prime minister and outgoing US Secretary of State declared a red line crossed. There’s no reason to think this White House will follow through.

It is a fair question. But judging the Trump administration on tax cuts, Gorsuch, and the DJIA is to ignore a lot of profound problems.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have released a memo that completely eviscerates the memo prepared by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

Administration officials are admitting that it’s likely that Russia will try to interfere in the midterm elections just as it did in 2016, but they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it.

H.R. McMaster is fighting a losing battle for control of the National Security Council staff.

President Trump was apparently directly involved in drafting a false statement regarding his son’s meeting with a lawyer tied to the Russian government.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

Tuition goes up as state funding goes down.