Outside the Beltway

Focusing on Edward Snowden is largely a waste of time.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

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.

The Administration has accepted reality in its fight against a ruling that made the “morning after” pill available regardless of age.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

Contrary to President Obama’s assertion today, the NSA’s operations don’t have proper legislative or judicial oversight.

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

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

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

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

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

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

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

Chamake Mauriene reveals America’s secret to world domination in Pravda.

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

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

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.

A news report today provides an excellent lesson in why all the rushing to judgment in the Martin/Zimmerman case is a mistake.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

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 Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

The Kleinfelds of New YorkDelhi Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.

The next-generation iPhone 5 is rumored to have a 4 inch screen and even a slide-out keypad.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

Julian Assange is a loathsome human being. Is he also a rapist? Under Swedish law, maybe.