Outside the Beltway

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Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

We’re witnessing something not seen since 1989.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

The 46th President’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

President Trump has made plenty of mistakes handling this crisis. Let’s not invent dubious ones.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.

President Erdogan is playing a dangerous game.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Revisiting a recent post.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

The proof of a quid pro quo is coming from inside the President’s own Administration.

Defying the Commander-in-Chief’s order will almost certainly ruin a good man’s career.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

A top U.S. diplomat involved in Ukraine policy confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo regarding U.S aid to Ukraine.

New testimony from a former Trump adviser details how Rudy Giuliani was able to hijek American foreign policy.

New reports indicated that the President’s contacts with Ukraine’s President set off alarm bells inside the White House.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Iran announced that it was exceeding another limitation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, upping the already tense situation in the Persian Gulf

In memos to his superiors, the British Ambassador to the United States had an exceedingly frank, and negative, assessment of the current occupant of the White House.

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

Stephanie Grisham, presently a top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, has been named the new White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.

The latest is about deportations

Patrick Shanahan is out as nominee to be Secretary of Defense after questions were raised during his background investigation.