Outside the Beltway

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

A shameful exit from an ill-conceived war.

A book out today makes an odd case.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.

Another name may be on the short list for Secretary of State.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

Team of Rivals?

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.

New email headaches for Hillary Clinton, but it’s not clear what impact they will have on the race for President, if they have any impact at all.

Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server in the wake of reports about highly classified information in her email.

The former CIA Director received no jail time and a nuisance-level fine in exchange for a guilty plea to espionage charges.

The most widely honored General from the Iraq and Afghanistan War has plead guilty to sharing classified information with his mistress.

David Petraeus provided highly classified secrets to his mistress. Will he be charged?

Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

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

Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs this morning, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

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?

General Petreaus is now Dr. Petraeus and will be teaching a 1-1 load a the City University of New York.

Do we ask too much of our leaders?

Norm Ornstein may have written the sillest op-ed of 2012.

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

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

The scandal now surrounding David Petraeus should lead people to reassess his past record.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

As is often the case with sex scandals, pretty much everything ever written about General David Petraeus takes on an ironic double meaning in hindsight.

The scandal that led to P4’s downfall has many layers, none of them flattering to the most famous American general of his generation.

A surprise Friday resignation at the CIA.

The Afghan Surge announced by President Obama in December 2009 is over. By any objective measurement, it was a failure.

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