Outside the Beltway

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

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

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

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

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

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

It’s never a good thing when an Administration is investigating itself.

A smoking gun?

A computer virus has infected America’s fleet of Predator and Reaper drones.

Pfc. Bradley Manning faces twenty-two new charges, including one that could put him before a firing squad, but investigators still can’t prove any direct links between him and Wikileaks.

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?

The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

Glenn Greenwald asks, “Why won’t the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents?” For the same reason we don’t negotiate with terrorists.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

It’s going to be much harder for reporters to get access to the military thanks to new rules announced last night by the Pentagon.