Labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Co-written by Ray Takeyh. Last month, the Donald Trump administration noted that it was contemplating whether to designate Iran’s Is...
Eric Holder
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...
Op-eds
The CIA Goes Back to the Movies
Well, it sure beats talking about Benghazi. A few days after the (acting) chief spook wrote his review of Zero Dark Thirty, the Agency itself has returned to its new favorite subje...
Op-eds
America’s Enemies Are Getting Away with Murder
Fecklessness in response to attacks on Americans is a bipartisan tradition.
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
Clumsy Assassins
Roya Hakakian, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Grove Press, 2011), $25.00. Whe...
Op-eds
The Stories Ex-Gitmo Detainees Tell
Ten years ago this week, the U.S. government opened the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility. And three years ago this month, shortly after his inauguration, President Barack Obama ordered Gua...
Op-eds
A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...
Op-eds
A Pattern of Appeasement and Retreat
Take two headlines, one about Iraq, the other about Afghanistan. The Iraqis told us to honor our signed agreement, and pull out all our troops by year’s end. Over in Kabul,...
Op-eds
I’m Baffled. What’s He Up To?
I don’t think bloggers are supposed to confess bafflement, but I’m gonna do it: I’m baffled. I don’t get it. Every time I think I’ve got a grip on...
Op-eds
Iran Took Chance in Changing Tide
When US Attorney-General Eric Holder announced during a press conference last week that the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency had thwarted a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US (via...
Op-eds
Iran Shows Its True Colours
News of a thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is still on the front pages. Yet already, some public officials and pundits are trying to suggest that the...
Op-eds
Iran Plot
I was traveling yesterday and didn’t get caught up on the news until last night. A few thoughts. 1. Trumped up case?...
Op-eds
When Tehran Attacks
Iran's secretive Qods Force is rogue, but no more so than the regime that directs its actions.
Op-eds
With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr...
Op-eds
Of Mafiosi and Mullahs
Intelligence is how you take down organized crime and organized terror.
Op-eds
Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers
Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of...
Op-eds
‘Representing’ Al-Qaeda
Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric...
Op-eds
The Daqduq Dilemma
He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.
Op-eds
Will Obama Push Germany to Extradite Islamist Killer of U.S. Soldiers?
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed charges last week against radical Islamist Arid Uka, who confessed to killing 21-year-old Airman First Class Zachary R. Cuddeback of Virginia and 25-year-ol...