That’s according to a new Justice Department disclosure to the Senate & House intel and judiciary committees. Greg Sargent scans the thing in so I don’t have to. I await the Keep America Safe ad accusing whoever compiled this information of complicity with al-Qaeda. 390 to 3. Only Lindsey Graham can save this country from [...]

White House briefing just now on New START. Clinton reminded everyone that arms-reduction treaties typically pass with 90-some Senators. Gates repeatedly assured everyone that nothing in the treaty throws European missile defense an iota off course. Adm. Mullen said that he, the Joint Chiefs, and the combatant commanders all “stand solidly” behind the treaty. But [...]

The following is a translation provided by Peace Now of a Yedioth Aranoth interview with Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon, Israeli Vice PM and Minister for Strategic Affairs. Gestures, statements, negotiations—nothing will come of it in the end. That is the bottom line as far as Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon [...]

Instead it’s blank. Bereft. Filled by filler. As consuming a Void as the current version of the Sentry. Might as well be greeked copy. What I’d like to blog here is my pal Jeff Stein’s new Washingtonian piece on Steve Kappes, the highly influential CIA deputy director, Libya dealbroker and all-around baller. Usually I prefer [...]

And so his optimism deserves “New Direction.” Drezner says that my post on GOP attitudes toward New START gets the timetable on ratification wrong, since the vote won’t come “right after [the GOP] suffering a humiliating defeat on health care.” And that’s fair enough on the surface. But the actual timetable matters less than the [...]

Josh Rogin reports that Rose Goettemoeller’s negotiating team came up with a way to craft the nuke-reduction treaty with Russia without offending GOP sensitivities to missile defense. “Missile defense will not be part of the treaty,” Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the last Republican arms-controller, told Josh, “but in the preamble both parties will state their [...]

“What will pave the way for full repeal is a recognition and cognizance on the part of the administration,” Choi said, “that the fundamental reason to get rid of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is that it sacrifices, violates and compromises the integrity of all soldiers, not just gay soldiers.” That’s from an interview I just [...]

Gen. McChrystal goes after the Kandahar TGI Friday’s. It’s not my place to snark, as I’m a soft civilian journalist, but I have friends who’ve been asked to risk their lives to protect convoys carrying soda. And this is the sort of argument worth applauding: Rock concerts, hockey games and Americana kitsch in the Taliban [...]

See this movie the second it comes out. I’m an Edgar Wright cultist going back to Spaced; Scott Pilgrim is my girlfriend’s favorite comic; and this is better than I could possibly have hoped.

Now that Defense Secretary Gates has unveiled his changes to the implementation of DADT, here’s my new(er) piece for the Washington Independent this morning: Gates said the changes, endorsed by Joint Chiefs of Staff and vetted by the Pentagon’s top lawyer, would add “a greater measure of common sense and common decency” for service members [...]