Arlen Specter

April 20, 2016 | Clifford D. May

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...

July 21, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

The Great Alawite Hope

Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.

June 10, 2011 |

The Case for Telecom Immunity

Security means holding firm on the sticking point in the surveillance drama.

March 4, 2008 |

The Case for Telecom Immunity

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...

July 22, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss The American Thinker

Give War a Chance!

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...

July 13, 2007 |

The ACLU Loses in Court

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&#03...

February 1, 2007 |

The FISA Follies Roll On

Over two weeks ago, the Bush administration stunned both supporters and detractors of the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program — heretofore, involving warrantless...

February 16, 2006 |

Checked and Unbalanced

George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.

January 29, 2006 |

How to ‘Connect the Dots’

Well, for one thing, you use surveillance.

December 13, 2005 |

The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room

Watching Wahhabis.

November 16, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal)

An Incomplete Investigation

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...

September 25, 2005 |

The Suicide Ethos

Regulations were not the reason Able Danger intelligence was purged.

February 27, 2005 |

The “Advice” in Advice and Consent

Must the president consult with the Senate on Nominations?

January 6, 2005 |

Fatuous: The Witnesses Against Judge Gonzales Torture Logic

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...

November 1, 2004 |

Judicial Restraint

Republicans have, unfortunately, left the courts out of this election.