Outside the Beltway

The investigation continues, but the consensus seems to be growing that Metrojet 9268 was taken out by a bomb.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

As the House Select Benghazi Committee continues to question Hillary Clinton, a new poll finds that the vast majority of Americans view its work as political rather than part of an objective investigation.

What will likely be the apex of the House Select Committee’s investigation of the Benghazi attack begins and ends today with the testimony of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Another Republican Congressman has said that the Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack is primarily concerned with scoring political points against Hillary Clinton.

The man who will likely be the next Speaker of the House accidentally acknowledged the real motivation behind the Select Committee investigating, yet again, the Benghazi attack.

Get ready for another pointless political circus.

The unqualified hack who led OPM while China stole 21 million sensitive personnel files has finally resigned.

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 first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

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.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

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.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.

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

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

Words don’t always mean what you think they mean.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

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

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.

Michele Bachmann and several other Members of Congress are engaging in the despicable tactics of Joe McCarthy.

How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is expected to step down after 17 days of pro-democracy protests.

Rep. Jane Harman is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.