Outside the Beltway

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

But humans made all the decisions that matter.

The White House is doing damage control.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

The US government is fighting back, albeit subtly.

Should the government need a warrant to get information it can buy on the open market?

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

You’re not helping, Mr. President.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The problem has intensified—and spread beyond Ukraine secrets.

Russia is circulating doctored versions of plans for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

They’re stealing our secrets and working to undermine our elections.

The Defense Department shares the worst-kept secret about the war effort.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

A series of Friday night firings.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

Lock her up?

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

New reports indicated that the President’s contacts with Ukraine’s President set off alarm bells inside the White House.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

With the ongoing Ukraine scandal having an impact in Washington and Kyiv, the biggest winner is in Moscow.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

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.

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.

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.