Outside the Beltway

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

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

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

Two groups of former special operations soldiers are opposing Obama. Their military bonafides are not their most interesting credentials.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Drudge Report says Team Obama thinks CIA Director David Petraeus will be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick.

Since Israel’s system is far more “socialist” by American rhetorical standards, I am not sure what his point was.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

Our good friend Hamid Karzai, contemplating a war between the United States and our good allies Pakistan, says that he would of course fight with Pakistan.