On Iran Negotiations, US is Untrustworthy

In a new report, the International Crisis Group suggests the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani does present a potential diplomatic opening, and that the U.S. should organize direct bilateral engagement with Iran (as opposed to the hollow P5+1). "Now is not...

U.S. Ambassador Makes Big Impression in Egypt

On the bright side, at least Egyptians know the name of the U.S. Ambassador (Anne Patterson). Maybe if we doubled our foreign aid, they would take down at least one of those signs. I have been railing against foreign aid since... hell.... since way back when my beard...

Cabbie Is NSA Surveillance’s Big Get

Desperate to drum up some sort of evidence of the NSA's effectiveness in tracking down terrorists by collecting phone records from literally every single American, officials have tapped a relatively minor case of an immigrant cab driver arrested for sending money to...

Obama: NSA Only Monitors a Fraction of ‘Internet Traffic’

White House denials are so often overt lies these days that when they say something at least plausible it's worth examining. Today, Press Secretary Jay Carney insisted the NSA "examine only a very small percentage" of the world's Internet traffic. Examine as in give...