I just wrote three draining reported pieces in 30 hours plus all this other blogging and freelance writing and band practicing and strategizing and general-purpose living sprinkled in. I’m exhausted and I want to talk about comic books. No problem, I figure: everyone’s busy with FinReg. It’s whatever. After the jump, a spoiler-filled discussion of [...]

When I see a piece entitled, “Time to Stop Putting Up with North Korea,” I start thinking about how many thousands of Koreans will die in the opening hours of a Second Korean War, to say nothing of the American soliders who will be run over by a southward push from one of the world’s [...]

From the House Armed Services Committee’s summary of the marked-up defense authorization bill they approved 59-0 last night: “The Committee firmly believes that the construction or modification of any facility in the U.S. to detain or imprison individuals currently being held at Guantanamo must be accompanied by a thorough and comprehensive plan that outlines the [...]

Laura Rozen has a letter that Queens Congressman Gary Ackerman — no relation — wrote to Secretary Clinton urging the State Department re-designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism now that an international investigation has concluded that a NoKo torpedo most likely sunk a South Korean naval vessel, killing 46 sailors. “As the recent [...]

Very early this morning, the U.S. military command in Afghanistan announced an Army criminal investigation is underway for an unspecified number of U.S. soldiers believed to be involved in the “unlawful deaths” of “as many as three” Afghan civilians. There are no charges against the soldiers yet. One of them is in pre-trial detention. Members [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 412-10 May 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of five soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died May 18 in Kabul, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their convoy with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Killed were: Col. John M. [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 411-10 May 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Adam L. Perkins, 27, of Antelope, Calif. died May 17 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 7th Engineer Support [...]

Is it too cynical to wonder if part of the reason conservatives are so willing to praise Campbell Brown’s CNN resignation speech is because she’s married to Dan Senor?

I guess I backed off this point from December about the constant demands to fix intelligence failures with overcollection, but Julian Sanchez revives it with reference to the Senate’s Abdulmutallab report. Julian’s right on the merits, but in fairness to the Senate report, it really only looks at NSA for missing collection opportunities and hits [...]

So here you’ve got a situation in which the vague Insider versus Outsider distinction between Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak breaks down in an unpredictable way, with Specter opposing escalation in Afghanistan and Sestak supporting it. It might be the only substantive policy difference between the two candidates. It’s definitely the only one in which [...]