Outside the Beltway

David C. Jones, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Carter and Reagan, has died.

Bill Clark, who served as National Security Advisor and Interior Secretary under Ronald Reagan, has died at 81.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Think of it as the spy version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

Republicans aren’t happy with their leadership. The reason why is also the reason why Republicans are in trouble politically.

Another poll shows the President’s poll numbers dipping.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

Max Fisher has spotted a tiny link amidst the Guardian’s navigation options.

A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.

How can anyone possibly support the death penalty?

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

If Stevie Wonder were still touring, he wouldn’t be making stops in states with “Stand Your Ground” laws.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The drip, drip, drip in Richmond is turning into a flood.

The US military’s lavish new headquarters in Afghanistan has been completed just in time for our exit.

Egyptians celebrated last night, but the future is far from clear.

The return of a really bad idea.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

Not surprisingly, Edward Snowden has been formally charged in connection with the leak of classified NSA documents.

Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Why Should Congress and the Courts Care About Snooping If Citizens Don’t?” has posted.

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Revelations about the NSA’s data mining programs don’t seem to be having a significant impact on public opinion.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

Turkey has had along and ongoing struggle with democratic consolidation.

Federal workers are facing being laid off several days without pay; they’re being advised not to seek private sector employment to make up the difference.