Times That Try Congressmen’s Souls
Will members defend America’s national security, sovereignty and Constitution?
Constitution
Obama’s Security Council Gambit
Co-authored by Lee A. Casey The recent open letter by 47 Republican Senators, putting Iran on notice that the US Constitution fundamentally limits the President’s ability...
Op-eds
How Congress Can Use Its Leverage on Iran
Absent congressional approval, the president cannot deliver permanent relief from existing sanctions.
Op-eds
Vladimir Erdoğan: How The Turkish Premier Is Consolidating Power, Russia-Style
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has its candidate for Turkey’s presidency. To no one’s surprise, it’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan....
Op-eds
The Murder Of Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar Symbolizes Pakistan’s Descent Into Self-Annihilation
Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan &mdas...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Inquiry into Corruption Charges Will Change Little
The Turkish parliament last week debated corruption allegations against four former ministers and...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Charter of Intolerance
Co-authored by Danny Eisen Canadian stakeholders have approached Senator David Tkachuk, who championed the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (JVTA) for eight years b...
Op-eds
UN Report Assails Iran for Persecution of Religious Minorities
Despite the election last year of Iran’s reform-minded president Hassan Rouhani, there has been no Persian thaw for Iran’s struggling religious minorities. Wide-scale repression of re...
Op-eds
Iran’s ‘Moderate’ Icon Unmasked
In Persianised Arabic, Zarif is a word of many meanings, ranging from fine or delicate, discerning and cunning to subtle. Mohammad-Javad Zarif, former ambassador to the United Nations, c...
Op-eds
An Iranian Moderate Exposed
“To my esteemed enemy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif.” Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations remains very proud of this dedication in his copy of Henry Kissinger’s ...
Op-eds
Iranian FM Mohammad-Javad Zarif: Twitter vs Memoirs
Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad-Javad Zarif returned to Tehran with great fanfare this weekend following the accord he reached with the US and other world powers in...
Policy Briefs
The Great Collision
For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...
Op-eds
The Costs and Benefits of the NSA
Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal at the IRS, we understan...
Op-eds
Obama’s Classified Leaks Are Probably Not Prosecutable
In my post over the weekend about the folly of pushing for a special prosecutor on t...
Op-eds
From ‘Rule of Law’ to ‘Hit List’: NY Times Lauds Obama at War
“The president accepts as a fact that a certain amount of screw-ups are going to happen, and to him, that calls for a more judicious process.” Well, that’s certainly a...
Op-eds
The Supreme Court Enters the Surveillance Debate
Since 2004, the Supreme Court’s transnational progressive bloc has forged a novel — and, in my view, a damaging — judicial oversight role in American national security. The whim...
Op-eds
Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
Op-eds
Obama Administration to Congress: You’re Irrelevant
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave testimony in the Senate yesterday that was just breathtaking: asserting that the Obama administration believes it c...
Op-eds
Jamshid Muhtorov, the Islamic Jihad Union, and Joshua Foust
As regular Gunpowder & Lead readers will know, one of my preferred genres of writing is known informally as the “evisceration.” My...
Op-eds
Hillary’s Misguided Space Arms Control
Pact could undermine American security in the name of cooperation.