The Leak Wars
“The government’s ability to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects overseas allowed the United States to obtain information that helped lead to the arrests last week of three Islamic militants accused of...
View ArticleImperiled by the Imperial Judiciary
Must reading today is Andy McCarthy at NRO on recklessness at the FISA court, the secret panel established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to place electronic surveillance in...
View ArticleAm I Missing Something?
The Washington Post offers a lengthy recounting this morning of how the intelligence community went about gathering the intelligence behind its new estimate that Iran shut down its nuclear-weapons...
View ArticleThe Big Stories
It’s only the morning after Super Tuesday, but it still’s not too early to think about the really super Tuesday—the one that comes in November. In that regard I was struck by the two major stories of...
View ArticleWho is Richard H. Immerman?
Is this a case of the fox guarding the henhouse? Immerman is the man Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, appointed back in September to the position of “assistant deputy director of...
View ArticleAn Anti-War “Teach-In” at the CIA?
Historians Against the War was formally founded at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Its statement of purpose can be found on its website: As historians, teachers, and...
View ArticleWheels Coming off Obama Anti-Terror Approach
Democratic Sens. Jim Webb and Blanche Lincoln are joining Republicans to up-end plans for a civilian trial for KSM by denying funding to transport and try them in the U.S. ABC News reports: It is...
View ArticleThe Gates Minuet
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is perpetually walking a tightrope. He is, after all, a member of the president’s cabinet, and if he wants to remain so, he must display loyalty and hew to...
View ArticleDid John Brennan Lie?
Marc Thiessen dismantles John Brennan’s anti-terrorism spin on Meet The Press. Brennan claimed that Republicans were informed of the handling of the Christmas Day bomber and, specifically, his...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The question is whether anyone has written a funnier, more devastating parody of liberal Jews than this. Definitely not! The question is becoming not whether Israel will strike Iran, but when: “Israel,...
View ArticleDumbest Policy Response, 2010 Award
A significant mismatch of “policy” with “problem” arose yesterday in a speech by James Clapper, Obama’s new director of national intelligence (DNI), addressed to the audience of a Washington think...
View ArticleCan’t Anybody in the Obama Administration Talk Without Saying Embarrassing...
This morning, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley responded to a question on Fox News about the new administration report on how, to quote Tom Joscelyn on the Weekly Standard website, “150 former...
View ArticleDoes the Press Have Better Intel than the White House?
Among the many dismaying aspects of the Benghazi attacks which left our ambassador and three other American dead, there is this point which I have not yet heard publicly debated: that readers of the...
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