Outside the Beltway

Well, of course they are.

A perfectly reasonable initiative with a significant downside.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

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

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

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

CNN fires back in the Administration’s ongoing war with the news media.

A Federal Judge in Maryland has ruled that discovery can proceed in a case alleging that President Trump has taken payments from outside sources in violation of the Constitution

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

My latest for The National Interest is out.

The former CIA Director has been stripped of his access to classified information after repeatedly criticizing the President.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

A man who had been identified as an assailant at last year’s Charlottesville rally and apparent member of a white supremacist organization has been dismissed by defense contractor Northrop Grumman.

It’s more complicated than one might think.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

According to one insider, “There’s no leadership, no trust, no direction and this point there’s very little hope.”

The President tried bringing something akin to a traditional policy process to the White House. Now he’s rebelling against it.

An unspecified number of White House staffers unable to obtain security clearances are out, with several more likely to follow.

The circumstantial case for corruption by Kushner is growing.