Outside the Beltway

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

Evan McMullin’s quixotic campaign for President continues.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

Michael Hayden notes that many of Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions are illegal.

For now at least, the Bush Dynasty has seen the end of its involvement in national politics.

After thirty years in Federal Prison, Jonathan Pollard is a free man. Make no mistake, though. Pollard is not, and never has been, a hero and he deserves to be remembered as nothing but the criminal that he is.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

What will likely be the apex of the House Select Committee’s investigation of the Benghazi attack begins and ends today with the testimony of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton’s wanton disregard for the rules had predictable consequences.

After 30 years in prison, Jonathan Pollard will be released later this year.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.

The former CIA Director received no jail time and a nuisance-level fine in exchange for a guilty plea to espionage charges.

Not surprisingly, the Select Committee established by House Republicans to investigate something that has already been investigated multiple times, will be in operation well into the Presidential Election season.

President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.

The most widely honored General from the Iraq and Afghanistan War has plead guilty to sharing classified information with his mistress.

David Petraeus provided highly classified secrets to his mistress. Will he be charged?

There’s not a whole lot the United States can do to respond effectively and proportionally to North Korea’s hacking attack against Sony.

In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on C.I.A. torture, some have suggested that eight years of Jack Bauer helped make torture more acceptable to the American public.

The “ticking time bomb scenario” is a TV trope and, therefore, is a terrible guide for making policy.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

The Justice Department won’t force James Risen to testify in a legal investigation, but faces a new choice in a different case.

What now?

A dark and regrettable time in American history is finally seeing the light of day.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.

The CIA has always separated its core spying and analysis functions; that may soon change.

What happened Tuesday? And what does it tell us about 2016?

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

The U.S. embargo of Cuba, and our lack of diplomatic recognition of the government in Havana, is an outdated relic of the Cold War. It’s time to end it.

Frank Foer proclaims, “Amazon Must Be Stopped. It’s too big. It’s cannibalizing the economy.”

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

WaPo’s Emily Wax-Thibodeaux reports that, “At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert.”

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.

The US intelligence community is gambling that it can be more efficient through a public-private partnership than going it alone.

There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.