You know when Chuck Todd is upset, the Obama administration has crossed some sort of line...
Obama’s Aggressive Secrecy and Unknown Unknowns in Syria
In the aftermath of public revelations that the Obama Justice Department snooped on scores of AP journalists and accused Fox News reporter James Rosen of criminal acts for seeking out statements from a State Department official, there is a lot of much-needed talk...
Afghanistan War Documentary: This Is What Winning Looks Like
See Part 2 and Part 3.
What Obama Won’t Address in His Big National Security Speech: The Criminal Drone War
President Obama is scheduled to give a speech tomorrow at the National Defense University on national security and counterterrorism policy. Many are eagerly awaiting an unprecedented moment of candor, expecting the president at least to clarify certain 'ambiguities'...
Guatemala High Court Annuls Rios Montt Conviction
The historic conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity was annulled late last night by the country's high court. BBC: The three-to-two ruling by a panel of constitutional judges annuls everything that has...
The ‘Humanitarian’ Pretext: Why Applying Moral Purpose to the Warfare State is Absurd
The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf has written a good post on an unfortunately seldom-made argument against so-called "humanitarian intervention" - namely that there are huge opportunity costs. "Almost every time someone calls for a war to be entered on humanitarian...
The Real Scandal: Spying on Journalists Is Legal
According to Peter Scheer, a lawyer and executive director of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), "the real outrage about the Justice Department's use of secret subpoenas for the phone records of Associated Press journalists is that...it was probably legal." Although...
Criminalizing Disobedience: Adam Kokesh, Anti-War Activist, is Arrested
Adam Kokesh got his start in anti-government activism as an Iraq Veteran Against the War. He admirably broke Army military rules by protesting the war in his U.S. Marine uniform, and was soon discharged as punishment. Since then, Kokesh, who had a short-lived...
AUMF, Never-Ending War, and America’s ‘Instruments of Tyranny’
"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison As previously discussed in these spaces by Kelley...
Holder Can’t Even Count How Often DOJ Spies on Journalists
Via NPR, Holder said yesterday in a news conference that he's not sure how many times he's signed off on Justice Department requests to spy on journalists: "I'm not sure how many of those cases...I have actually signed off on," Holder said. "I take them very...


