Since the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden's leaks last year, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who authored the Patriot Act, has come out in opposition to certain NSA surveillance practices, particularly bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata....
According to the Project on Government Oversight, "The U.S. is going to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, and it still isn't meeting its goals. Watch the video and find out how this happened." Several commentators including Winslow Wheeler and William Hartung discuss...
Brace yourself: George W. Bush's former attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is arguing publicly that the Obama administration's drone war exceeds legal limits on executive authority. As anyone with a memory of Gonzales's tenure under Bush knows, this is more than a...
A recent report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace advocates several policy recommendations which aim to rectify the "threat" that a rising China poses to "the foundations of the U.S.-backed global order." Traditional strategies of "containment," as...
Again, military officials in the Pentagon are insisting on cutting superfluous weapons programs that are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, but Congress refuses to cut because the defense corporations that line their campaign pockets want the money to keep coming...
Despite Obama's promise in last week's State of the Union address that he will veto any bill that heaps additional sanctions on Iran while the interim agreement is still in place, hawks in the House of Representatives are still pushing for it. Indeed, a mixture of...
In the policy and think tank worlds, we're told Obama's "pivot" to Asia is essential for America's national interests and that, indeed, continued U.S. military presence throughout the Asia Pacific region is vital for both the U.S. and its allies. U.S. allies need to...
Two recent reports from Foreign Policy reveal that there is routine corruption at the Defense Department and that it even extends to covering up evidence of war crimes. First, from Gordon Lubold, an article based on a July 2013 report compiled by the Defense...
If you say it out loud, it seems too preposterous to be true. Four high-profile former government officials are getting paid by an Iranian dissident group that until 2012 was an officially designated terrorist organization to publicly oppose the Obama administration's...
