Outside the Beltway

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

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

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

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.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges stemming from turning classified documents over to WikiLeaks.

Chamake Mauriene reveals America’s secret to world domination in Pravda.

Another step in the ongoing diplomatic showdown over the founder of Wikileaks.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

Censorship or sound business practice?

Apparently, people who work for the government are surfing the World Wide Web.

A smoking gun?

Obama to Sarkozy on Netanyahu: “You’re sick of him — but I have to deal with him every day!”

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

Pfc. Bradley Manning is being treated worse than a Prisoner Of War, and he hasn’t been convicted of a crime yet.

The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.

Pfc. Bradley Manning faces twenty-two new charges, including one that could put him before a firing squad, but investigators still can’t prove any direct links between him and Wikileaks.

Tweeting feels like IM’ing but it’s more like blogging.

A new Wikileaks revelation indicates that the U.S. may have paid a heavy price to get a deal on New START.

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

Information made public by Wikileaks appears to have played a role in sparking the protest movement that has brought down the President of Tunisia.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.