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Reacting to the cockamamie U.S. News story about Michael Hayden possibly staying on as CIA director, Glenn Greenwald reminds everyone that Barack Obama voted

The L.A. Times gives a good review to President-elect Barack Obama for his first news conference, conducted on a day that began with downbeat economic news

By the close of 1967, a half-million U.S. troops were in Vietnam, and Americans at home, viewing the war on television in their living rooms, had become

Matthew Yglesias flags this aspect of a New York Times story about the Obama national-security team: Yet all three of his choices — Senator Hillary Rodham

While Gov. Rick Perry drew criticism for the political overtones to the August prayer rally he hosted just days before he announced his run for the presidency,

Yoo refuses to answer who was in the meeting about the White House meeting referred to by Addington in advance of Yoo/Bybee’s August 1, 2002 torture memo.

This is sort of sad. Lt. Scott R. Easterling, a former contractor who became a commissioned officer in 2007, has signed up with Orly Taitz’s crackpot quest for

The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s

Leadership in the U.S.

Ah, strategic myopia. Yesterday, Ted Gistaro, a top intelligence analyst, gave a speech to the Washington Institute about Al Qaeda’s intent and capability to

Florida’s influential affiliate of the Family Research Council will be hosting GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at its annual policy awards dinner.

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.

From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests: Baseej shooting in Azadi sq - army standing by

With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health

<p>Remember Donald Rumsfeld? He seems like a bad dream. And yet here he is, popping up in Washington to talk about how the U.S. needs a Ministry of

Following up on Laura’s post on the Bush administration’s efforts to burrow political appointees into permanent civil service jobs: On the bright side,

Just released from Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council: “National Security Advisor General James Jones is pleased to announce an

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had threatened to file a federal lawsuit if Democrats deemed the health care reform bill passed. In the end, of course,

Eric Holder has taken heat from the right, but the attorney general hopeful may face tough questions from the left during confirmation hearings on Thursday.