Outside the Beltway

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.

In her upcoming book, Hillary Clinton strikes a defiant tone against conservative’s continued interest in the Benghazi attack.

Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?

A new set of emails is reviving the old partisan arguments about the attack in Benghazi.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

I’ve been up since 3 am and drinking since 6 pm, so my reaction to a presidential war speech at 9 am may not be the definitive word

Given that the vote count seems to be heading that way, this is a question worth examination.

Raymond Pritchett longs for the good old days of Tom Donilan, Hillary Clinton, and Leon Panetta.

David Bosco wonders, “Why is the United Nations Ambassador in the Cabinet?”

Two polls indicate that most Americans oppose the President’s latest moves on Syria. This makes sense considering actual policy there seems to be entirely incoherent.

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

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?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

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

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.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.