Outside the Beltway

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.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Syria isn’t Libya.

Several top Administration officials have secret email addresses, the Associated Press reports.

Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.

Starting today, the fate of Pfc. Bradley Manning is on trial in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

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

The government is changing the way it calculates Gross Domestic Product.

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

The Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of a case in which Indiana’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood had been blocked by a Federal Court.

Filling normal vacancies on the bench is not “packing the court.”

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

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

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.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

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.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

Debunking a conservative myth that has arisen in connection the Benghazi story.

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

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.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

Arming the Syrian rebels may do nothing more than prolong a seemingly endless war, and pull the United States into a conflict it shouldn’t be involved in.

The FDA has modified it’s rules on the availability of a politically controversial form of birth control.

President Obama said today that he wants to move forward with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay but there’s little he can do on his own.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.