Outside the Beltway

Set backs for Pennsylvania in its effort to reverse the NCAA sanctions against Penn State, and a new lawsuit from the Paterno family. The Sandusky story returns.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

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?

Once again, national security wins and privacy loses.

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

It’s a mistake to think of the Bill of Rights as only protecting people who are “innocent” or “guilty.” It exists to protect all of us.

Darrell Issa’s Committee seems headed for a battle over the Fifth Amendment.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

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

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

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

Three women missing for more than ten years have been found alive, apparently kidnapped by three brothers in Cleveland.

The FBI is looking into Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s relationship with a major donor.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Opponents of immigration reform are deceptively attempting to use the bombing attack in Boston to derail immigration reform.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.

The CIA unsuccessfully lobbied to put Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest of the Boston Marathon bombers, on the counterterrorism watch list in 2011.

What Miranda does and does not cover and what consequences follow if police do not comply.

A sensational story, little solid information, and instant analysis are a bad combination

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.