Outside the Beltway

Tragedy in Boston.

Targeting terrorist leadership may be counterproductive.

Here we go again.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.

Remember when the Bush administration was spying on calls Americans made overseas without a warrant? Those were the good old days.

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

The Pentagon considers those killed by Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood three years ago victims of workplace violence, not terrorism.

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

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.

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.

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

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.

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

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Are colleges teaching the right lessons about the 9/11 attacks?

Condi Rice’s speechwriter thinks Huntsman can appeal to the Tea Party.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

An ex-CIA agent says that someone in the Bush White House tried to use the agency to “discredit” Iraq War critic Juan Cole.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

The Obama Administration has given up on the idea of trying the September 11th suspects in a civilian court. Considering how much that trial would have perverted the justice system, that’s a good thing.

Time for midterms.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.