Via Adam Serwer, here is Rep. Eric Cantor commenting on the failed Times Square bombing and the administration’s response: Cantor complained that the public “goes on heightened alert” after such incidents for “hours and days rather than permanently” and that Obama aides “tend to give these warnings due attention only in limited spurts.” Does anyone [...]

I suppose I should let the man who wrote the book on this write the post, but Peter Baker’s profile of Rahm Emanuel contains this judicious account of Emanuel’s views on foreign policy and national security: Massachusetts and health care have reinforced a broader liberal indictment of Emanuel. He has been leery of or has [...]

I never can get through these long Tom Jocelyn posts in the Standard because they get so snarled in fact and logic. But for this one, which insists on persisting with the slander of Neal Katyal for daring to represent Salim Hamdan, I made an effort. This is representative of what Jocelyn is working with: [...]

The New York Times commemorated Al Haig’s death by reprinting this 1989 op-ed he wrote thinking through counterterrorism strategy after the U.S. got caught in a spate of Hezbollah/Israel hostage-taking. (Background.) Your task is to tell me what this means: [A]s in any war, a commander in chief must also know that military operations can [...]