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The Debt Ceiling as a National Security Issue
If a body other than the Congress of the United States were actively contemplating a step that would, by the accounts of virtually all economists, tank the U.S. economy, cause interest rates to shoot up,... -
Disclosing Secrets
As a short follow up to Ben's post about the editorial judgment of the Washington Post, I am reminded of what the New York Times Public Editor, Byron Calame said about the SWIFT disclosures, in an opinio... -
Blowing Secrets for the Sake of Doing So?
The Washington Post this morning has the latest Snowden-leaked document story: "The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging... -
Obama and Alexander, Bush and Tenet
Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively: Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership... -
Senate GOP Letter on Shutdown and National Security
Apropos of my exchange this morning with Jeremy Rabkin, Senate Republicans on Tuesday issued this letter asking President Obama to declare all national security workers to be "essential" and return them ... -
Jeremy Rabkin Responds on the Shutdown and National Security
Jeremy Rabkin, a law professor at George Mason University, sent me an email in response to my post from Sunday about the shutdown and national security. -
On the Effects of the Shutdown
A veteran administration official emailed me just now in response to my piece last night on congressional Republicans and the shutdown: "Nice Piece (on the shutdown)," the official writes. "You are right... -
WaPo Editorial Board Cites Lawfare
Yesterday's Washington Post editorial discussed the pernicious effects of the shutdown on U.S. national security, and quoted John's post from last Sunday in it. The editorial opens: -
Has the Tea Party Forgotten About 9-11?
As the government lurches towards a likely shutdown on Tuesday, Tea Party Republicans should remember that the United States remains a country at war, not only in Afghanistan, but with al-Qaida and its a... -
The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration
I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t... -
Reflections on NSA Oversight, and a Prediction That NSA Authorities (and Oversight, and Transparency) Will Expand
Last Friday I asked how NSA Director Alexander’s claim that “we can audit the actions of our people 100%” was consistent with USG uncertainty about what Snowden stole and with its claims that it was “put... -
A Hard-To-Justify Leak
Eli Lake and Josh Rogin have an amazing story at the Daily Beast about how last week’s closure of embassies was prompted by a USG intercept of a conference call of “more than twenty” leaders of AQ and af...
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