Outside the Beltway

Stoking a bizarre fantasy that will not die.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

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

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

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

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.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

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.

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.

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

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.

President Trump continues to deny the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and he’s failing to act to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

At a time when our alliance is more important than ever, President Trump is responding by attacking our ally.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation to include the allegation that President Trump may have attempted to obstruct justice

Reports are indicating that President Trump may cancel or delay his trip to the United Kingdom due to planned protests.

Yet another report that the President of the United States sought to undermine an ongoing F.B.I. investigation.

Two big admissions from the Director of the F.B.I. today are likely to lead to real political headaches for the Trump Administration.

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

The Jangled Bells Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

More evidence that Trump would be a terrible president.

Michael Hayden notes that many of Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions are illegal.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the N.S.A. metadata collection program is unconstitutional, but it’s unclear if the ruling will have much of an impact.

Last night reinforced what I thought about some candidates and changed what I think about others.

Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.

The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

The House has passed a bill that would place real restrictions on the National Security Agency’s data mining program. Now, it moves to the Senate.

Director of National Intelligence now tells Congress that he testified falsely about NSA spying because he forgot the program existed.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.

Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

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

The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.

Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.

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

Should the police be able to track you without a warrant? One Federal Appeals Court says no.

For the first time, Edward Snowden is talking to the American media.