Outside the Beltway

Two polls indicate that most Americans oppose the President’s latest moves on Syria. This makes sense considering actual policy there seems to be entirely incoherent.

President Obama’s poll numbers seem to be suffering under the weight of nearly two months of scandals and/ media attention.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

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

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

Even if you trust the current occupant of the White House to exercise the powers granted to the agencies operating in secret under him, do you trust all future Presidents?

The infamous VA backlog is finally dwindling. Much of it was a function of good intentions.

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

The ACLU is suing over the NSA’s data mining. Does it really have a chance?

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

While our leaders may not be fully trustworthy, they, not disgruntled low level employees, are best positioned to decide.

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

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Then-Lieutenant Wales intervened to prevent a gay trooper from getting beaten by a gang of thugs.

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.

Contrary to President Obama’s assertion today, the NSA’s operations don’t have proper legislative or judicial oversight.

Just because NSA data mining is legal, that doesn’t mean it’s proper or that the American people should tolerate it.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

Sadly, this is not surprising.

The government has your cell phone and credit card records. What can they do with that information?

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

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

The Governor of Massachusetts decided to celebrate a bit after Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev was captured.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Syria isn’t Libya.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

President Obama threw down a gauntlet today in the form of a trio of Judicial nominations.

If there’s one thing that our generals and admirals agree on it’s that generals and admirals should retain their power.

The same story yet again.

Chris Beck spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL. Kristen Beck has written a book about her experiences.

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

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.