A spy’s story
After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag...
After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag...
Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.
Security means holding firm on the sticking point in the surveillance drama.
It’s been nearly three weeks since House Democrats endangered our national security by effectively rescinding the law that permitted the intelligence community to conduct aggressive surveillance...
Two items in the batch of international news and commentary at the end of last week strike us as particularly noteworthy, justifying our recall in a new context of the title of P.J. O'Rourke...
The American Civil Liberties Union's Steven Shapiro is one of the best lawyers in the United States. Still, he was flat wrong when he told the New York Times that a federal appeals court...
Over two weeks ago, the Bush administration stunned both supporters and detractors of the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program — heretofore, involving warrantless...
George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.
Well, for one thing, you use surveillance.
Watching Wahhabis.
It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons...
Regulations were not the reason Able Danger intelligence was purged.
Must the president consult with the Senate on Nominations?
For hours, the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General designate, Alberto Gonzales, was grueling — for his detractors. The White House Counsel handled often strident questioning with...
Republicans have, unfortunately, left the courts out of this election.