Outside the Beltway

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

Mike Lindell’s behavior is both farcical and dangerous.

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

But, still very bad.

Who’s to blame for the Blue Wave not materializing?

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

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

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

We can’t punish every politician with a mental problem, but some are clearly unfit for office.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

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.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

A legendary newsman has passed.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

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

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

The real crime is what’s legal.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

A mysterious conversation with a foreign leader is at the center of a controversy between the intelligence community and Congress.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

A federal appeals court has ruled that DC and Maryland officials have no right to bring the suit.

A new report in The New York Times raises both national security and Constitutional concerns.

Beginning tomorrow in a British courtroom, the United States will begin the process of having Julian Assange extradited to the United States to face espionage and other charges.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose identity was outed during the Bush Administration, is running for Congress in New Mexico.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be running for Senate despite urging from Republicans in Washington and back in Kansas,

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.