Outside the Beltway

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

I don’t feel the jubilation that came with Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003. Sadly, I know better this time.

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.

Senator Joe Lieberman said today that we should intervene in Syria using the same rationale we did for Libya. Because, you know, what’s the big deal about a fourth war?

So much for not getting invaded…

Muammar Gadaffi’s family hired big name entertainers for parties. What with the ongoing mayhem in Libya, that’s coming under scrutiny.

Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

DHS Secretary Napolitano issues some vague warnings to Congress.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has made public documents which confirm his predecessors role in the release of the man convicted of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103.

Here’s how terrorists get past airport security: don’t bother to go through it.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

While our politics are seldom violent, our violence is often politicized.

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

The reaction to President Obama’s recent recess appointments provide us with yet another example of bipartisan hypocrisy.

The TSA’s crusade to fondle whomever they please continues.

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.

Washington D.C.’s 34 year-old Metro system is about to become the latest stage for Security Theater.

Santa Claus and Osama bin Laden both rely on the power of belief.

One has to love the Telegraph headline “Drone kills white al-Qaeda pair in Pakistan mountains.”