Back when the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamad Morsi, the Obama administration deflected calls to cut off aid, as is required by law in the event of a military coup. And as the months passed and the military regime...
Fun fact: NSA's bulk collection of Americans' metadata doesn't fight terrorism. A shocker, I know. Remember a few months ago when it was revealed that the NSA collected the metadata of hundreds of millions of Americans in bulk, and in order to justify this exposed...
The Washington Times reports that since "Libya and the nation’s allies have questioned the legality of the U.S. operation" that captured a suspected al-Qaeda member, Secretary of State Kerry was prompted "to do some public relations damage control." In his damage...
Many commentators are welcoming the news that President Obama ordered special operations forces into Somalia and Libya to "capture" suspected terrorists because at least he didn't drone bomb them instead. Granted, capturing suspects with the intention of trying them...
The New York Times is hosting a "Room for Debate" forum on the question of whether al Shabab poses a direct threat to the U.S. Seth G. Jones of the RAND Corp is one of the commentators and employs some funny reasoning. Citing a University of Maryland database, Jones...
The U.S. has just announced a deal with Japan that will allow basing rights for surveillance drones. Oh and the Pentagon swears their purpose is to surveil North Korea. Really, they promise. China? What's a China? "The primary mission for the Global Hawks will be...
The Iranian commander of the Cyber War Headquarters has been assassinated by two unidentified assailants on motorbikes, in a mysterious killing that bears the hallmarks of previous assassinations of Iranian officials that most experts suspect Israel of carrying out....
The NSA admitted in Congressional testimony this week that they were deliberately "collect[ing] data about ordinary Americans’ cellphone locations," in a test program that lasted from 2010 to 2011. Collecting data about the cellphone locations of ordinary Americans....
The U.S. has been declaring victory in Colombia for several years now, citing successes in clamping down on the drug trade. But it's clear the international drug war has failed miserably. The Clinton administration launched a foreign policy initiative to choke off the...
Ask any policymaker in the White House or Congress, what's more important than human rights? Their response: "Our government, of course." The Obama administration yesterday issued blanket waivers exempting three countries from a federal law banning U.S. military aid...
