Meet the Press

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

September 10, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Don’t Forget About Al Qaeda

President Obama is set to discuss his plan for confronting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a primetime speech this evening. According to ...

January 2, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not a ‘Bogus’ Benghazi Connection

During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick was asked about the connections between Muhammad Jamal’s network and the B...

December 29, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

The New York Times Whitewashes Benghazi

David D. Kirkpatrick of the New York Times has ...

March 4, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

John Brennan and the Bin Laden Files

During a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 30, 2012, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, discussed “The Ethics and Efficacy of the U.S. Pres...

November 19, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Who Politicized Intelligence on Benghazi?

During...

June 13, 2011 | The Philadelphia Inquirer |

Bush Foreign Policy Settles into Weird State of Denial

It's an alarming sign for U.S. foreign policy when Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden says, as he did last month on NBC's Meet the Press, that, personally, he...

March 21, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Pundicity

Backseat for U.S. on Libya Airstrikes?

Sunday morning, the United States’ most senior uniformed officer described the military campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi as “limited.” Appearing on NBC’s &ld...

February 28, 2011 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media |

Has Anyone Told Ambassador Rice There’s a Crisis In Libya?

When President Obama made Susan Rice his ambassador to the United Nations, in 2009, he thought the job was so vital that he gave her cabinet rank. Now, here we are, with the Arab world in tumult,...

April 15, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

The Obama Doctrine

In recent days, the Obama administration has fired a salvo of national security initiatives: a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a new National...

February 17, 2007 |

Trial in Error

Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Che...

June 20, 2006 |

UN Headquarters Renovation: No Accountability Without Transparency

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September 28, 2005 | Clifford D. May

They Shoot Schoolteachers, Don’t They?

To The Washington Post they were simply “gunmen.” The New York Times non-judgmentally called them “armed men.”  The elite media fastidiously avoid such harsh...

February 15, 2005 | Tech Central Station

Opposition During Wartime

By: Andrew Apostolou. Opposing a government in wartime is proving to be a frustrating experience for the political enemies of president George W. Bush and prime minister Tony Bl...

May 11, 2004 | Opinion Journal |

Another U.N. Scandal – At Turtle Bay, North Korean Dissidents Find Only Indifference

The U.N. Secretariat has been pouring noticeable energy lately into expressions of outrage over allegations that there was something rotten with its Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq. In politi...

May 4, 2004 | Wall Street Journal |

We Have Other Priorities’ – Why Won’t the U.N. Answer Questions About its Iraq Scandal?

The harder the United Nations tries to keep a lid on Oil for Food, the more the scandal keeps boiling over. This past Sunday Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeared on "Meet the Press," rejecting a...

February 10, 2004 | Wall Street Journal |

Tear Down This Regime: Let’s Negotiate North Korea’s Dictatorship Out of Existence

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!...