Outside the Beltway

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

The 45th President was a psychopath.

Because of course he did.

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Lock her up?

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?

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

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

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

The U.S. military will no longer release reports regarding the success, or failure, of the current strategy in Afghanistan.