Outside the Beltway

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”

Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.

In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

The “SERENITY COW” Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.

The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.

The GOP seems to be losing the public relations battle over deficit reduction.

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 question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.

Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.

Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Osama bin Laden is dead, but he’s succeeded in changing America for the worse.

Will the successful action against Osama bin Laden cause people on the right to stop believing crazy things about the President? Don’t count on it.

Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

The impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on the domestic politics is likely to be minimal at best.