Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton’s own campaign admits she “didn’t think it through” when she decided to use a private email server as Secretary of State.

While new information seems to come out on a daily basis, Hillary Clinton would rather that everyone think that her private email server wasn’t really a very big deal.

Clinton’s wanton disregard for the rules had predictable consequences.

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

The F.B.I. seems to be looking in to just how secure. Hillary Clinton’s private email server was while she was Secretary of State.

Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.

A few days late, but a story worth noting if it has escaped notice.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.

New information in the Dylann Roof case shows that the background check system used for gun purchases is still prone to human error.

The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.

Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Cardinals executives were doing a little more than just stealing signs, apparently.

The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.

So much for freedom of speech.

The Supreme Court has narrowed the means by which Federal prosecutors can prosecute someone for making statements online that could be perceived as threats.

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.

The House has passed a bill that would place real restrictions on the National Security Agency’s data mining program. Now, it moves to the Senate.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.

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

An attack on al Qaeda outposts in January resulted in the death of two hostages, but also resulted in the death of two high value al Qaeda targets.

Not surprisingly, the Select Committee established by House Republicans to investigate something that has already been investigated multiple times, will be in operation well into the Presidential Election season.

An elite FBI Forensics unit gave flawed and false testimony in cases over a period that lasted more than 20 years.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

The Justice Department will not pursue contempt charges against Lois Lerner because it has determined that she did not waive her rights under the Fifth Amendment.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

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

Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.

The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

A victory for evil.

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

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

Reversing a previous decision, Sony will allow The Interview to be screened in a small number of theaters.

There’s not a whole lot the United States can do to respond effectively and proportionally to North Korea’s hacking attack against Sony.