Outside the Beltway

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

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

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

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

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

The grand jury was disbanded, so there was no need to continue the coercion tactic.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

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

A Federal Judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the DNC alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Beginning tomorrow in a British courtroom, the United States will begin the process of having Julian Assange extradited to the United States to face espionage and other charges.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

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

Not surprisingly, Chelsea Manning is headed back to jail for her refusal to answer questions before a Federal Grand Jury investigating Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Chelsea Manning, who was being held in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena, was released yesterday but it’s likely to only be a temporary freedom.

President Trump’s obsequious effort to please Russian President Vladimir Putin continues.