Update: NSA Analysts spied on love interests
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions. In response to a letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
Update on NSA gathering data on social connections of U.S. citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
The real Rouhani
The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was…
Getting Serious about Syria
Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Even in the best of times the greater Middle East had been beset by political instability, economic suffering, social discontent, and a permanent psychological oscillation of…
Obama’s First Two Defense Secretaries Pan His Leadership
President Barack Obama spoke at the United Nations yesterday. As has become his habit, he speaks without saying much. His is speech added no new substance to the current world…
Disrespecting the Dead at Benghazi
During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused…
Drones: Their Reach and Limits
by Kenneth Bloomquist Executive Summary Drones are exceptional new military tools that magnify American air supremacy. They are cheaper to build, easier to place in the field, and more accurate…
Turkey: The next Muslim Armageddon?
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi With a single notable exception after World War I, it had always been the unique characteristic of various Turkish states that in times of great…
CIA Employee Who Refused to Sign Benghazi Non-Disclosure Suspended
Employee forced to hire legal counsel by Adam Kredo A CIA employee who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement barring him from discussing the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in…
American Ineffectualism
Every American ally is cringing with embarrassment at the amateurishness of the last month. by Mark Steyn For generations, eminent New York Times wordsmiths have swooned over foreign strongmen, from…
Benghazi, One Year Later
What we know about the attack in Benghazi one year after the fact is that it is an example of the Obama administration’s incompetence and mendacity. More worrisome still is…
America is Exceptional
by Carl M. Cannon The evidence that Vladimir Putin — and not his American public relations firm — really wrote the pugnacious New York Times op-ed on Syria that infuriated…
Wing-it Diplomacy Undermines U.S. Credibility
by Michael Barone Here’s how the Obama folks have been starting to spin Syria. The president made a credible threat to use military force in Syria. At the same time,…
Stunning and Inexplicable Foreign Policy Incompetence
The President’s uneven Syria response has damaged his office and weakened the nation. On the eve of the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Barack Obama made the strongest…
The Obama Doctrine has officially collapsed
America’s enemies have found out they can play our president. There were numerous oddball characters in “M.A.S.H.,” the old TV show about a surgical hospital in the battlefront in Korea.…