Outside the Beltway

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

It’s easier for your government to kill you than strip you of your citizenship.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

The office working to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has been closed.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

A passenger praying in the aisles will apparently get your plane priority landing privileges.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

A Bangladeshi man was arrested yesterday in New York for an apparent plot to bomb Federal Buildings. The entire plot was an FBI sting operation.

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

Osama’s driver, who was convicted of only technical crimes, has had his conviction overturned on a technicality.

Falling on the sword?

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

The Afghanistan War is officially eleven years old today.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.

More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured.

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

The Administration’s narrative regarding the attack that resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens no longer holds water.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

The White House’s theory of what happened in Benghazi is become less and less credible.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

6% of Ohio voters think Mitt Romney deserves more credit than the commander-in-chief for killing Osama bin Laden.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.