The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained....

President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....

“The Jack Bauers if you will … see a President right now who made tough decisions in secret and stood by those decisions when they became public….These same men see the incoming President unwilling to stand behind one of their own.” The media, let’s face it, want Barack...

We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government.......

Last night was the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. It’s a big deal with lots of celebrities (both DC and real), so I and my coworkers went around and took pictures of people at the pre-parties. Here’s me with Director of Central Intelligence Michael Hayd...

lemme tell ya, reading "news" like this feels just a little bit different when i'm sitting here less than a few hundred miles from the afghan-pakistani border... different HOW, you may ask...? funnier... sadder... more pathetic... Al Qaeda is training fighters that "look western" and could easily cr...

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration lawyers violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions that authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials confirmed yesterday....

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration lawyers violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions that authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials confirmed yesterday....

Terrorist attacks, civil upheaval and a parliamentary election today that will probably shape the battle against radical extremism have moved Pakistan to the hottest of front burners within the Bush administration....

Terrorist attacks, civil upheaval and a parliamentary election today that will probably shape the battle against radical extremism have moved Pakistan to the hottest of front burners within the Bush administration....