On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty of all persons…

What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture into mere…

I was there. And “there” was nowhere. And nowhere was the place to be if you wanted to see the signs of…

If you look backward you see a nightmare. If you look forward you become the nightmare. There’s one particular nightmare that Americans…

We had a debate club back in high school. Two teams would meet in the auditorium, and Mr. Garrity would tell us…

Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held…

Some images remain like scars on my memory. One of the last things I saw in Iraq, where I spent a year…

White is black and down is up. Leaks that favor the president are shoveled out regardless of national security, while national security…

People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no…

On January 23rd, the Obama administration charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information to journalists about the waterboarding of…