Outside the Beltway

A throwaway comment by John Kerry in London has led to some interesting diplomatic developments.

Score one for Team Bush?

There’s more than one way to look at the civil war in Syria.

Bill Clark, who served as National Security Advisor and Interior Secretary under Ronald Reagan, has died at 81.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

Not surprisingly, the United States is not going to place aid to Egypt’s military in legal jeopardy by calling this month’s events a coup.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

The US military’s lavish new headquarters in Afghanistan has been completed just in time for our exit.

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

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

The Court may have “punted” the Proposition 8 ruling, but it is likely to have a wide-ranging impact both in California and nationwide.

Effective immediately, Texans will have to show photo identification to vote.

A Colorado 6-year-old with a penis has successfully sued for the right to use the girls’ restroom.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

Allegations of wrongdoing and cover-up at Foggy Bottom.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Sometimes it seems like all John McCain does is appear on Sunday morning news shows. The problem goes deeper than that, though.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

The same story yet again.

Eric Holder’s testimony before Congress is leading to accusations of perjury, but the argument that he did so seem pretty weak.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

President Obama faces some perilous times ahead now that his Administration is under fire.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

ThinkProgress’ Hayes Brown reports that, contrary to his claim that he was demoted for speaking up on the Benghazi attacks, Gregory Hicks was instead demoted for being a bad manager.

The State Department tries to scrub information about the 3D-printed gun from the Internet.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

There are far too many appointed positions in the US government. And many of them are unfilled.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?