Jeremy Scahill’s latest Blackwater expose features Monsanto, a corporation I hate above all others: Through Total Intelligence and the Terrorism Research Center, Blackwater also did business with a range of multinational corporations. According to internal Total Intelligence communications, biotech giant Monsanto—the world’s largest supplier of genetically modified seeds—hired the firm in 2008–09. The relationship between [...]

Speaking of endless regrets, I can’t believe I never headlined a post about the ambush at Wanat, “187 On An Under-Covered COP.” It’s like I’m acquiescing to Tom Ricks being a better blogger than I am.

Moe Tkacik, one of my favorite writers, launches a new econo-media/DC blog, precisely the sort of thing I would labor not to read were she not writing it. Yet its RSS is already in my GoogleReader. Anyway, if you’re not familiar, she’s a fantastically complex writer, to the point where I started biting her style [...]

Substantive blogging will return here, I promise, but this is the best spam I’ve ever gotten: hi there How are you doing I miss you because you love animals Now We have new sweet friend for you its new and free Enjoy with us here http://www.mr-animal.com/ This guy knows me.

Got an email this morning from ISAF. It was a press release titled “Escalation of Force Incident in Paktika.” This is how it began: KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 15) – An Afghan civilian was killed after failing to adhere to several warnings to stop approaching a security perimeter in the Sharan district, Paktika province Tuesday. Would [...]

It sounds like a Chain of Strength song, but it’s an Army leadership seminar, and it’s what’s brought me here to McLean looking respectable early in the morning. It’s also the reason to expect low-volume blogging today. Check Danger Room for some Unified Quest coverage.

Embarrassing confession time. Tomorrow there’s a DC mayoral and city council election. I’ve lived in DC for over eight years. And I don’t have any good basis for voting. The truth is that covering my beat and my parochial interests make up the vast majority of my news consumption. I’ve become a much, much narrower [...]

Apparently my friend Matt Duss of the Center for American Progress found some furry kindness at an anti-mosque rally this weekend. Just go with it…

Courtesy of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, a series of declassified diplomatic communiques about U.S.-Pakistani counterterrorism cooperation in the 2000s. Check out my write-up for Danger Room.

A president who increased troop levels in Afghanistan to three times what he inherited; asserted the right, based on an expansive reading of a short and open-ended statute, to launch drone strikes far from active battlefields, even against American citizens; and who may end up codifying indefinite detentions makes for a rather strange sort of [...]