Outside the Beltway

Apparently, the EPA needs to start environmental cleanup a little closer to home.

Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

In her upcoming book, Hillary Clinton strikes a defiant tone against conservative’s continued interest in the Benghazi attack.

Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?

A new set of emails is reviving the old partisan arguments about the attack in Benghazi.

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?

Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.

According to reports, the President had no idea that the NSA was listening to the phone calls of foreign leaders until this summer.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

The American taxpayer spent a lot of money today paying their employees not to work.

One inmate’s view of the asylum.

United States helped Saddam Hussein launch some of the worst chemical attacks in history against Iran.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

Conservatives are doing what they criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

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?

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.