Today's Headlines and Commentary

Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal have this must-read article about the degree to which Pakistanis give the United States its consent for drone strikes. Ben, Ken, and John are all quoted in the piece.

From the Department of One Bad Deed Leads to Another: A Pakistani cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward last week for the death of the man who made the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims.” In response, the Taliban has taken the minister off its hit list, says Agence France Presse.

Ismail Khan and Scott Shane of the New York Times report that an Al Qaeda middleman and a liaison between Al Qaeda and the Taliban were among five people killed by a drone strike yesterday in N. Waziristan.

CNN’s Security Clearance blog tells us that Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Bob Corker, (R-TN) “have demanded details of the threats and security concerns ahead of the attack [on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi].”

Rajiv Chandrasekaran of Foreign Policy discusses whether the Afghan surge worked.

John W. Whitehead, attorney and author, blogs at the Huffington Post about what Guantanamo Bay means for America.

In the wake of the all the unrest in the Arab world, the Washington Post has an editorial on the pro-American pushback in the Middle East and Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker about the American perception of “Muslim rage.”

Amy Zegart describes the findings of a YouGov poll on national security issues in Foreign Policy. Spoiler: Americans like torture after all.

And, here, from Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room blog, is the national security threat you never saw coming---today’s Moment of Zen.

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