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National Security
Surveillance Is Made of Dogs How not to infiltrate an NSA building.
By Kerry Howley
spy balloons
Feb. 18, 2023
Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon? The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s small circumnavigating pico balloon is “missing in action.”
By Chas Danner
unidentified aerial phenomena
Jan. 8, 2022
Pentagon’s New UFO Office Worries Some Ufologists They’re skeptical the Defense Department will share what it learns about unidentified aerial phenomena.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
national security
Aug. 12, 2021
The War on Terror Is Inescapable It produced Trump and remains a threat to American democracy, a new book argues.
By Sarah Jones
washington dc
Mar. 14, 2021
The Slow Push to ‘Free the Capitol’ From Its Fencing Two months after the Capitol riot, the political divide inside Congress has made it difficult to address the razor-wire divide outside.
By Ben Jacobs
national security
Dec. 17, 2020
The Scope of the Latest Russian Hack on the U.S. Is Growing The Pentagon, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and more have been comprised, which authorities were reportedly not aware of for months.
By Matt Stieb
Could Biden Move Left on National Security? His party-unifying repositioning on domestic policy might extend to such topics as the Pentagon spending cuts that Sanders and Warren have promoted.
By Ed Kilgore
surveillance
Dec. 16, 2019
The Russia Probe Was Justified — But the FBI’s ‘Failures’ Should Trouble Us All While the DOJ inspector general uncovered no evidence of an anti-Trump “witch hunt,” the FBI’s shoddy surveillance practices must not be overlooked.
By Barbara McQuade
Bullock, Sestak Drop Out of 2020 Presidential Race Bullock had a great electability argument. But he got into the race late and then failed to make enough of a mark.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
July 31, 2019
Why the Democratic Debate Revived an Old Question About Nuclear Weapons Fearing Trump, Elizabeth Warren had proposed prohibiting any first use of nukes by any U.S. president, as Obama had considered doing.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Huawei Ban Is a Bigger Deal Than His Trade War If great-power rivalry renders high-tech trade between the U.S. and China impossible, globalization as we’ve known it will end.
By Eric Levitz
national security
Apr. 4, 2019
The Trump Administration Is a Security Sieve Mar-a-Lago and the White House security clearance scandal make that clear.
By Adam K. Raymond
NSA Isn’t Using Phone Data Program Exposed By Snowden The invasive program was supposed to be indispensable for national security. And yet, the NSA reportedly stopped using it months ago.
By Eric Levitz
foreign policy
Jan. 29, 2019
U.S. Intel Chief Disputes Trump on North Korea and ISIS Kim Jong-un isn’t giving up his nukes and ISIS isn’t defeated, Dan Coats said Tuesday.
By Adam K. Raymond
What to Know About Ali Watkins, James Wolfe, and the FBI A reporter had her communications data seized in the investigation of a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide — with whom she had a relationship.
By Gabriella Paiella
What Sy Hersh Knows An unsummarizable interview with the inimitable investigative journalist and raconteur of the American national security state.
By Christian Lorentzen
Trump Hates ‘Arbitrary Timelines,’ Yet Gave U.S. 6 Months to Exit Syria: Report To avoid Obama comparisons, he told top officials they can’t call his random deadline a “timeline.”
By Margaret Hartmann
Mattis Had a Nearly Impossible Task. Now Trump Is Making It Even Harder. From Syria withdrawal to sending troops to the border, squaring Trump’s desires with military policy is a tall order. How long can Mattis keep it up?
By Heather Hurlburt
trump administration
Mar. 3, 2018
Grown-ups Are Not Running America’s Foreign Policy A group of Model U.N. teenagers could probably pick and execute policies better than this administration.
By Heather Hurlburt
national security
Feb. 24, 2018
Kushner Still Has Security Clearance, Despite Additional Reported Issues The Justice Department warned the White House that significant issues remain unsettled regarding Kushner’s background.
By Chas Danner
P.A. Special Election Could Be the Only Excuse Trump Needs to Start a Trade War Trump will have to make a decision soon on possible tariffs on steel and aluminum, which most Republicans oppose.
By Ed Kilgore
whistle blowers
Dec. 22, 2017
The Story of Reality Winner, America’s Most Unlikely Leaker She’s not an ideological combatant like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. She’s much more like you or me.
By Kerry Howley
Deputy National Security Adviser to Leave White House As planned all along, Dina Powell is getting out of Washington while the getting is very good.
By Ed Kilgore
open letters
Nov. 28, 2017
Women in National Security Call for a Workplace That Actually Respects Women In a letter signed by over 200 diplomats, military officers, and civil servants.
By Katie Van Syckle
What We Know About Alleged Russia-Hacking-Report Leaker Reality Winner The intelligence contractor, a 25-year-old Air Force veteran, is accused of mailing a classified report on Russia’s election meddling to a reporter.
By Margaret Hartmann
The Malice of Trump’s Incompetence Even if Trump is motivated by loyalty and indifference to democratic norms, not criminal intent, his recent actions have serious consequences.
By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Trump Plan Would Gut Coast Guard and TSA to Pay for Immigration Crackdown Apparently, making America “safe again” involves cutting airport and coastal security to channel billions of dollars to pro-Trump border unions.
By Eric Levitz
White House Undermining Own Case for the Urgency of a Travel Ban Next time Team Trump tells a court its immigration policies are a matter of immediate national security, its failure to stick to that story may hurt.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Condemns FBI Leakers for Leaking That He Asked Them to Leak The White House asked the FBI to leak exculpating details about Trump’s ties with Russia. It leaked the details of that conversation instead.
By Eric Levitz
Report: Trump Picks Former Mattis Aide Robert Harward As Flynn Replacement The president has asked the former Navy SEAL and current Lockheed Martin executive to be his new national security adviser, Reuters reports.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Was Told Weeks Ago That Flynn Had Misled Pence After 17 days of reflection, the “unbelievably decisive” president fired his national security adviser due to eroding trust, Sean Spicer explained.
By Eric Levitz
Michael Flynn’s Resignation Is the Best News of the Trump Presidency So Far The Trump administration just lost its most dangerous Islamophobic conspiracy theorist.
By Eric Levitz
national security
Feb. 13, 2017
By Jordan Crucchiola
Trump Just Declared the ‘Court System’ a Threat to National Security Not content to attack individual judges and judicial decisions, the president is now disparaging the “court system” itself.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Silence on White Supremacist Terror Is Political Correctness Run Amok The president is too afraid of offending oversensitive conservatives to protect America against radical racist terrorism.
By Eric Levitz
John McCain Not Happy With Trump’s NSC Shake-up or the Entry Ban The Republican senator doesn’t think that Steve Bannon should have a permanent invitation to the National Security Council’s most important meeting.
By Caroline Bankoff
Former CIA Director Resigns From Trump’s Transition Team And he isn’t the only one who’s finding the job of “relatively sane national security adviser to Donald Trump” to be a challenging one.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Military Interventions. So Did George W. Bush. Beware a Republican coming into office claiming a restrained attitude abroad.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the uterus
Oct. 17, 2016
By Lisa Ryan
surveillance
Sept. 16, 2016
House Intelligence Committee: Snowden ‘No Whistle-blower’ As defenders of Snowden call for a presidential pardon, lawmakers insist he caused “tremendous damage” to national security.
By Jonah Shepp
early and often
Sept. 7, 2016
Trump Offers Peace Through Strength — and Craziness At a national security forum, Trump elaborated on his plan for winning through unpredictability and insane overreaction.
By Ed Kilgore
First Night of RNC: War, Benghazi, and Melania The first night of the Republican National Convention will revolve around national security, which in Trump-speak means Benghazi!, “Fast and Furious,” and assorted conspiracy theories and grievances.
By Ed Kilgore
Obama Administration to Clamp Down on Visa-Waiver Program After Paris Attack The administration wants to tighten screening to root out people who may have previously traveled to a “terrorist safe haven.”
By Jen Kirby
you’ve got hacked
Oct. 22, 2015
By Ben Ellman
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