Edward Snowden has formerly requested temporary asylum in Russia and promised, under President Putin's stipulations, that he will not leak anything further. Still, his ultimate destination is thought to be somewhere in Latin America. From Just the Facts, here are some...

Stefan Svallfors, a Swedish professor on the Nobel Committee, has nominated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for a Nobel Peace Prize. Svallfors says Snowden deserves it due to his "heroic effort," and notes that it would help recover the prize's "disrepute" following...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that legal advisers to President Obama have warned him since the beginning that aiding the Syrian rebels probably violated international law and risked a direct conflict with the Assad regime. Members of the so-called Lawyers Group...

In May of last year I noted at this blog reports that an amendment had been slipped into the 2013 NDAA bill that nullified two U.S. laws - the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987 - that ban domestic propaganda. This month marks the...

So the planned furloughs for some 650,000 civilian workers at the Department of Defense have begun. Roughly speaking, this will mean about a 20 percent cut in each paycheck until September. This is supposed to save the Pentagon $1.8 billion, which is a drop in the...

Let's dissect a headline: Pentagon: Iran will soon have nuclear missiles capable of striking US Here's the true parts: 1. Iran is a country that exists 2. The Pentagon is a place that says lots of nonsensical things If we're realistic about examining the "threat" of...

You won't hear it put this way by anyone in Washington, but the main reason cuts to the defense budget are worrying officials is that they make it more difficult to police the world. In Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel suggest a cost-saving measure...

Despite new rules put into place by Congress in 2009 prohibiting the use of open air trash-burning pits on U.S overseas bases -- yes, the same pits that countless numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and their doctors, say have caused irreparable harm to their...