Outside the Beltway

Pressure is building on the Administration to send military aid to Ukraine, but it would be a very bad idea.

Reports indicate that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is likely to be charged with desertion for leaving his post in 2009, but he’s unlikely to serve time in prison.

The Army’s investigation of the disappearance five years ago of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been referred to a top General, who will decide if a court martial should be convened.

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

Facing a tough re-election battle, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is engaging in abject fearrmongering.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

My latest for War on the Rocks, “HAGEL: CLIMBING OUT FROM UNDER THE BUS,” has posted.

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.

Mostly because of politics, the hopes of some and fears of others will never be realized.

Trying to make some sense out of a week of outrage.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.