In an interview with The Daily Caller, NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake the Obama administration's targeting of journalists, their sources, and government whistleblowers is an attack on the First Amendment. “[R]eporters have shared with me privately that some of their...
There's a discussion over at the Lawfare blog about whether or not finally repealing the expansive war powers authorized in the 2001 AUMF will actually do anything to constrain Obama and future U.S. presidents. Mind you, the Lawfare crowd includes former Bush...
According to Angel Rabasa of the RAND Corp., we really need to start directly arming the Syrian rebels. How do we do that without bolstering the influence and lethality of extremist groups? Simple, he says: just "establish as soon as possible a task force to organize...
In the U.S., our job for today is clear. It's Memorial Day and there are a solemn thoughts to have and wreaths to lay. "Ultimate sacrifice" must be repeated again and again. And as MSNBC's Chris Hayes learned last year, best not to raise even the smallest question of...
From the Facebook page of Robert Higgs, a photograph of an injured Iraqi boy and an important reminder: If this is what must to done to "protect my freedoms," I greatly prefer that my freedoms be left for me to protect. Of course, it's all pretentious rubbish. The...
Advocates of U.S. military action in Syria have grown fond of responding to opponents of intervention with what they seem to think is a 'gotcha.' Opponents of intervention keep warning of the potential catastrophe of getting involved in another Middle Eastern conflict...
The Rios Montt trial set back a month and will now likely collapse, a sad day for international justice. But for neoconservatives, the decision is good news, because Reagan’s shady connections with Montt have been exposed (for the few willing to discover them). And...
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President Obama managed to deliver a speech on Thursday in many ways reminiscent of the rhetoric employed by candidate Obama, condemning the recklessness of the previous administration, hailing the rule of law, and citing James Madison’s warning that “No nation could...
On The Scott Horton Show yesterday, Marcy Wheeler discussed the ACLU’s lawsuit – filed on behalf of Antiwar.com – against the FBI for unwarranted surveillance; the FBI memo stating Antiwar.com might be “a threat to national security” and working “on behalf of a...
