Outside the Beltway

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

The editors of the Washington Post want you to know that “Fair Game,” the new movie about the Valerie Plame affair, is “Hollywood myth making.” Propaganda and lies is more like it.

WikiLeaks has been dumped from Amazon’s servers.

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

The story about the private security guards who “arrested” a journalist at a Joe Miller campaign event just keeps getting stranger by the day.

The State Department’s terrorism threat warning for Europe is probably meaningless. If it isn’t, it’ll be perceived that way.

Pakistan yesterday blocked NATO’s primary supply line into Afghanistan in retaliation for an air strike that killed three Pakistani paramilitaries. Are the two countries truly allies?

Nine months after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, more than a billion dollars in reconstruction aid still hasn’t reached the country.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

An obscure U.N. human rights report has become the latest political outrage of the day in the battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Not surprisingly, Radical Islamists are taking notice of the tone of debate in the United States over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

U.S. passports still aren’t perfect.

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

Daniel Schorr’s journalism career ended far too early, lasting a mere eighty-one years.

The Iroquois lacrosse team has been caught in a classic Catch-22. The U.S. government won’t recognize their passports and they won’t use U.S. passports as a matter of principle.

The odds that David Petraeus will be able to pull off a miracle in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq are very slim.