War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
Terrorist Surveillance Program
Blunt Talk on Surveillance Reform
The whip weighs in.
Op-eds
The CIA Interrogation Tapes
Remember when this was a real war?
Op-eds
The Government’s Jihad on Jihad
Still lookin' for love in all the wrong places.
Op-eds
FISA Deal on the Horizon?
Aggressive foreign intelligence collection is not just an imperative; it's popular.
Op-eds
Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again
A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Lawfare Strikes Again
Strike another blow for lawfare: The use of the American people’s courts as a weapon against the American people in a war prosecuted by the president — the only public official electe...
Op-eds
Don’t Investigate Pelosi — Debate Her
Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we learned from our mistakes? The beleaguered Bush administration has had a dreadful couple of years. Now, for the first time in recent memory, a...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Symposium: 9/11: Five Years Later
On this fifth anniversary of 9/11, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the significance of that terror attack, what we have done right and wrong since then, a...
Op-eds
Connecticut? This is London Calling
We are reading only about 24 arrests today. If we were already in the heralded antiwar world of Ned Lamont and the war-against-the-war crowd, it could be much different. We could just as easily b...
Op-eds
Dead Man Walking
The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a national-security disaster. Forget about its undermining of military commissions. Forget...
Op-eds
Lasering in on Leaks
Anger over the leaking of national-defense information by the media may have hit critical mass with the exposure, by the New York Times and other newspapers, of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Pro...
Op-eds
The Media’s War Against the War Continues
Yet again, the New York Times was presented with a simple choice: help protect American national security or help al Qaeda....