Outside the Beltway

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

The laws of armed conflict aren’t designed for this war.

A legal defense without merit.

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

Why have Americans lost trust in their institutions?

Because I really do need to close some of these tabs.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

This time: some multi-party examples.

The postmortems are well underway.

The law is out of sync with modern realities.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

More rhetorical undermining, even as the process moves forward.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Cops aren’t soldiers or spies but fellow citizens.

Finally.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

Even as the impeachment vultures circle, the President is lashing out and making things more difficult for himself.

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

As if the situation in the Persian Gulf weren’t already tense enough, the Iranians shot down an American reconnaissance drone late yesterday

The President is once again claiming Executive Privilege to prevent Congress from getting access to certain documents.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

At some point, what we call conservatism turned into a racket. It’s not surprising that this led directly to Trump.

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code in the fight against Japan in World War Two, has died at the age of 97.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

As expected, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday on party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over a full copy of the Mueller Report

In an effort to block the release of the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump Administration is invoking Executive Privilege.

A Federal Appeals Court has rejected Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail notwithstanding her refusal to comply with a Grand Jury Subpoena.

The Justice Department will release a ‘lightly redacted’ version of the 400-page report at 11 Eastern.

It’s a lot harder than it looks.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

One of the most bizarre cases in recent memory gets . . . much more bizarre.

Chelsea Manning is in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena apparently related to an ongoing investigation of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

A Federal Judge found that former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort lied repeatedly after entering into a plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. This either makes him incredibly stupid or willing to sacrifice himself to hide the truth from Federal investigators.

Trump doesn’t want anyone to know what he and Putin discussed.

The mystery surrounding a secret proceeding in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has at least partly been solved.

Mystery continues to surround a proceeding that has been making its way through the Federal Courts in Washington, D.C.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Citing substantial cooperation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending no jail time for former Trump associate Michael Flynn.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.