Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.
It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.
The Obama White House rejected Republican criticism of the deal that led to the release of the only American Prisoner Of War from the Afghanistan War.
The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.
Another liberal legal scholar is calling on Justice Ginsburg to resign. She’s unlikely to listen to them.
Marijuana legalization is an issue that unites people across the political aisle.
Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.
A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.
Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, al Qaeda’s number two man in Yemen, is still dead. Or dead again. Or finally dead.
We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.
President Obama said today that he wants to move forward with closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay but there’s little he can do on his own.
Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?
There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.
The Boston Marathon bomber must be tried in a court of law.
A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Rand Paul’s questions about the nation’s drone war were only the beginning.
Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.
Osama’s driver, who was convicted of only technical crimes, has had his conviction overturned on a technicality.
Slowly but surely, we’re giving up on Afghanistan.
Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.
The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”
A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.
Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.
Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.
Newt Gingirch ups the ante in his rhetorical assault on judicial independence.
Would Republicans really be crazy enough to nominate Herman Cain?
Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) took to the floor yesterday to lambaste Grover Norquist and his influence over the GOP.
The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.
Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.
Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.
A major law firm has withdrawn from defending DOMA in Court, and a public controversy has erupted.
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.
Public support for the war in Afghanistan continues to plummet, but will that hurt the President when 2012 rolls around?
Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)
The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.
It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.