You know when Chuck Todd is upset, the Obama administration has crossed some sort of line...

In the aftermath of public revelations that the Obama Justice Department snooped on scores of AP journalists and accused Fox News reporter James Rosen of criminal acts for seeking out statements from a State Department official, there is a lot of much-needed talk...

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President Obama is scheduled to give a speech tomorrow at the National Defense University on national security and counterterrorism policy. Many are eagerly awaiting an unprecedented moment of candor, expecting the president at least to clarify certain 'ambiguities'...

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf has written a good post on an unfortunately seldom-made argument against so-called "humanitarian intervention" - namely that there are huge opportunity costs. "Almost every time someone calls for a war to be entered on humanitarian...

According to Peter Scheer, a lawyer and executive director of the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), "the real outrage about the Justice Department's use of secret subpoenas for the phone records of Associated Press journalists is that...it was probably legal." Although...

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison As previously discussed in these spaces by Kelley...

Via NPR, Holder said yesterday in a news conference that he's not sure how many times he's signed off on Justice Department requests to spy on journalists: "I'm not sure how many of those cases...I have actually signed off on," Holder said. "I take them very...