Outside the Beltway

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

The Acting Director of National Intelligence has released the complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that has set off allegations that the President sought foreign aid in undermining a political opponent.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

They want to talk to the whistleblower.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

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

A mysterious conversation with a foreign leader is at the center of a controversy between the intelligence community and Congress.

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Ben Carson comes to his senses, but questions still remain about his family seeming to benefit from his position in government.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

A former staffer for the House Select Committee investigation the attack in Benghazi is suing the Committee for improper employment practices, and Chairman Trey Gowdy for defamation.

A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.

The Supreme Court ruled that police are not entitled to access to a hotel registry without a warrant.

Freedom Of The Press, if you can afford to pay the fee.

A bizarre case in Alabama highlights a more bizarre judicial precedent.

Bill Clinton seems far more understanding of Edward Snowden than the current President

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

New revelations from The Guardian

Despite an extradition request from the United States, Edward Snowden left Hong Kong overnight on a flight to Moscow and parts unknown.

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

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

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

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

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

One Goldman Sachs employee decided to quit his job in a very public manner.

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

The latest push for laws against bullying is another example of the Nanny State rum amok.