Obama may not have the courage to pardon Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, but he could at least exonerate Stephen Kim, Jeffrey Sterling, Thomas Drake, and John Kiriakou.
One worry among the national security community is that Trump may wind up being, in effect, his own national security adviser.
Donald Trump is spectacularly bad at being president. Maybe the most extreme allegations about him are true. Or maybe, he's just an idiot.
Oliver Stone’s latest film, “Snowden,” is a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
The NSA spies on NGOs to help the U.S. dig up information on how targets respond to disease and weapons of mass destruction.
The "working group" she meets with Friday is a strong indicator that her national security policy will not threaten the post-9/11 national security status quo.
A British aid worker based in Aleppo exhorted American officials not to join Russian airstrikes against rebels in the city.
Reaction to the Chilcot report was a reminder that Iraq matters to Americans and Britons mainly as a source of material for attacks on political opponents.
Turkey launched its intervention in Syria both to take territory from the Islamic State and to halt gains by Kurdish-led groups empowered by the U.S. to fight ISIS.
Trump's speech accepting the GOP nomination for president will probably go down as one of the most frightening pieces of political rhetoric in U.S. history.
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