Excerpt Moving the U.S. Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Department of the Treasury is critically important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...
Download the full testimony here. Chairman Grassley, Ranking Me...
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In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of their final report investigati...
The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...
In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did...
CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...
If the attacks of 9/11 taught us anything, it’s that we must connect the dots. But before we can connect the dots, we must collect the dots. Those railing against...
Earlier this month, terrorism analyst Peter Bergen wrote at CNN that the declining number of...
Along with President Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is yet another arrow in the quiver of the Islamic Republic’s charm offensive. The chief negotiator at...
In Syria, we are letting Assad slaughter at will
Their deaths are instructive.
Closing the camps in Guantánamo Bay won't address the real problems with noncriminal incarceration.
During...
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the White House’s handling of classified information. The spur seems to have been the June 1 New York Times article by Dav...
Download the full testimony here (PDF). Chairman Meehan, Ranking Member Higgins, and members of the subcomm...
Download the full testimony here (PDF). Chairman...
The Obama administration’s fantasyland attempt at talks with the Taliban took another significant blow on Thursday. In a statement released online, Mullah Omar’s organization announce...
Iran's secretive Qods Force is rogue, but no more so than the regime that directs its actions.