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14 Sep 2016, 5:06 pm by Benjamin Wittes
An astonishingly bad piece appeared in Politico this week under an admittedly arresting headline: “The Case Against James Comey: Not Since Hoover Has an FBI Director Shown Such a Lack of Accountability. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 9:17 pm by Chuck Cosson
Tool Without A Handle:   Tools For Vigilantes “This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:30 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  The Pentagon is part of the Executive branch, after all, and the Constitution even states that each person who serves as President of the United States is Commander in Chief of the armed forces. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 11:45 am by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
And so we wait: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there would be no announcement of a deal on Monday. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 3:30 pm by Elina Saxena
” In what appears to be a response to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said that “anything that tries to bolster the ISIL narrative that the United States is somehow at war with Islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 1:05 pm by Elena Chachko
Reports indicate that the move faced opposition from top Pentagon and CIA officials, who argued that it might trigger IRGC retaliation against U.S. personnel, but those objections were overruled by Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 12:59 pm by Elina Saxena
The cessation of hostilities in Syria is looking increasingly unstable. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 8:34 am by Susan Hennessey
The FBI announced yesterday that it is investigating the San Bernardino shooting as an act of terrorism. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 11:36 am by Quinta Jurecic
 One of those cases, which has five defendants, alleges conspiracy to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 11:40 am by Andrew J. Grotto
Over the new year, Congress overrode President Trump’s veto to enact into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021—an annual piece of legislation that lays out the budget, expenditures and policies of the Pentagon for the upcoming year. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 12:13 pm by Matthew Kahn
The ongoing legal battle over former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book is in large part a fight over classification. [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 5:00 am by Hilary Hurd
  A second test occurred in July 2017, which the Pentagon reported as a “catastrophic failure,” though contrary reports in the Iranian media stated that the Simorgh could successfully place a satellite weighing up to 551 pounds in an orbit of 310 miles In August 2017, the United States, along with France, Germany, and United Kingdom, co-signed a letter to the U.N. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 12:04 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Some security officials are indicating that the Islamic State has trained at least 400 fighters to attack Europe in “deadly waves of attacks. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 1:13 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Two senior intelligence analysts at U.S. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 12:10 pm
In an anticipated move (U.S. allows lawsuits related to confiscated property in Cuba) Reuters (reporting by Matt Spetalnick; writing by Susan Heavey) today today reported that the Trump Administration will announce a series of quite strong actions against the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 1:23 pm by Staley Smith
So far, only 60 insurgents have been formally vetted and trained by the United States under a Pentagon program and “questions also remain about which Syrian insurgents and how many will be involved in the new operation. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 9:39 am by Dave Maass
  This year, the Pentagon makes the DEA’s assessment look like pocket change. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 12:41 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Some are challenging the U.S. government’s decision not to have Umm Sayyaf extradited to the U.S. to face charges, including Senator John McCain (R-AZ) who sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Attorney General Loretta Lynch criticizing the desicion of the Pentagon and White House. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Around this time last year, we rang in 2017 with a review of the year that was in the Middle East and a series of questions: Will Saudi Arabia’s experiment in economic reform outlast the low oil prices that precipitated it? [read post]