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This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a

Prediction time. When the definitive history of the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war is written, its attempt to force the Iraqi government to

The battle in Colorado over the shape of next decade’s congressional districts continues.

After a 12-hour debate yesterday during which senators largely repeated the same arguments for and against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that we heard

The Senate just confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), presiding

One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration’s apparatus of torture became public Thursday. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the

Responding to The New York Times report that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’ lobbying firm was on the Freddie Mac payroll until the end of August, the

Although Leon Panetta hasn’t had so much as a single senator come out against his nomination to become CIA director, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Speaking today at a news conference on derivatives, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) raised the possibility of proposing an amendment to Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s

Two years ago, many Republicans couldn’t stand him. The longtime congressman from Texas made his quixotic presidential campaign all about the Constitution and

On a slow, rainy Friday in Washington, when all eyes are on presidential politics, this little gem arrived over the ticker courtesy of Defense Secretary Robert

One big surprise and one cruise to victory in the Beehive State, as attorney Mike Lee scored an upset victory in the state’s Republican Senate primary and

This week, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee released a report on Medicaid that outlines cost-saving measures decided upon by 31 Republican governors. Among the policy recommendations is a proposal to require the federal government to pay for the care of undocumented immigrants

Here’s why Palin probably won’t run in 2012. Americans are split on an Afghan troop increase. Kerry might be having his best press cycle ever. And he

Thanks to TPM for spotting what appears to be the first big defection from the Clinton camp in the wake of Tuesday’s results in North Carolina and

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Scott Bloch, director of the Office of Special Counsel, is now set to resign, effective Jan. 5. Bloch has drawn some unwanted attention to the federal agency

One of the things I most anticipate about the next four years is how the cohort that so massively proved that they can’t be trusted to run or assess U.S.

In a speech to the Center for a New American Security, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy shed light on the approach she’d take as Pentagon chief.

Marc Ambinder has a good post explaining the president’s behavior after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried and failed to blow up Northwest Airlines