Let's face it, with rising public criticism of the Obama administration's drone war, embarrassing political posturing and shutdown politics on the domestic side, and unprecedented worldwide outrage over NSA spying, the U.S. government has seen better days (something...
In a commentary that appeared in USA Today, RAND Corporation senior adviser Brian Michael Jenkins praises President Obama's increased reliance on Joint Special Operations Command raids in place of drone strikes. "The two U.S. commando raids in Libya and Somalia this...
This well-reported article by Will Crisp at the Christian Science Monitor has two important findings. First, disparate armed militias are really who rules Libya, not the government. Second, these militias are motivated to wrest even more control over the government by...
The list of former U.S. officials who believe drone strikes create more enemies than they eliminate juts got a little bit longer. "Drone strikes take out a few bad guys to be sure, but they also kill a large number of innocent civilians," writes Nabeel Khoury, the...
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced an interesting Constitutional amendment this week: 'Section 1. Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to Congress. 'Section 2. Congress shall make no law applicable to...
Writing in Foreign Affairs, two George Washington University professors note the strange inability of "the U.S. establishment" to substantiate their claims that leakers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning pose an enormous threat to national security. The reason...
The Pentagon's inspector general found defense contractor Boeing deliberately overcharged for military equipment four times in the past five years, according to Bloomberg News. In 2008, for example, Boeing charged an extra $16.6 million on a $4.4 billion CH-47F...
Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have published reports on the Obama administration's drone war, saying it may amount to war crimes. This comes just days after the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions submitted a...
Leaving aside how egregiously extra-legal, unrestrained, and unchecked the NSA's domestic surveillance is, today's news from Glenn Greenwald in the French paper Le Monde is a window into what NSA spying looks like with zero constraints. According to the article, the...
