There is one less camel in Africa.
Rebels in Libya have discovered a massive minefield laid by Qaddafi’s forces to protect their now-abandoned positions near the city of Misurata.
Al Jazeera is reporting that rebels have already found 550 anti-personnel mines in a suburb of the city.
What’s really sad is how the rebels found it. …
Many members of Congress would have you believe they are worried that the White House has overstepped its authority by waging war in Libya. Only Congress can declare war, they say, and the 1973 War Powers Resolution helps make this clear.
That’s why a provision in the Pentagon’s annual authorization bill that has already passed in the …
President Obama and Congress are on a collision course as the White House rejects congressional efforts to tinker with how the administration detains and prosecutes potential terrorists. The fight is being played out through the House and Senate versions of defense spending and authorization bills.
The White House on Thursday …
During his confirmation hearing in the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday, California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Gen. David Petraeus whether he supported President Obama’s timetable to withdraw over 30,000 troops from Afghanistan. Rather than say “No,” he delivered this impenetrable monologue.
New York Times writer James Risen claims in a court affidavit that the government has monitored his phone calls in an effort to identify his confidential sources. “I have learned from an individual who testified before a grand jury in this District that was examining my reporting about the domestic wiretapping program that the Government …
Epsilon announced April 1 that hackers had snatched customer email information. Citigroup got hit May 10. Hackers hijacked customer data from Sony on April 20. Somebody squirreled into Lockheed Martin’s network on May 21. These are just a few of the dramatically increasing cyber attacks aimed at private companies.
What is the …
President Obama traveled to West Point 18 months ago to redefine the American strategy in Afghanistan and explain why he would dispatch an additional 30,000 troops there, to a total of 100,000. “These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of …
The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, is apparently open to the idea of withdrawing of 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012.
Marc Ambinder is reporting that Petraeus has “formally” endorsed bringing out 5,000 troops now and another 5,000 next spring. But Congress is increasingly hostile to the …
This week the House is likely to pass an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill that would cut off funds for the war in Libya. The vote reflects the momentum behind a coalition of liberal Democrats opposed to the war and Republicans who want to rebuke the White House for failing to seek approval for the war from Congress.
That vote, …
Attorney General Eric Holder, the country’s top cop, is getting pretty sick of members of the legislative branch telling him how to prosecute people.
The latest unsolicited advice came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who went to the Senate floor earlier this week and urged the Justice Department to drop the …
I wrote yesterday that the debate about whether the Obama administration’ s involvement in Libya is in violation of the 1973 War Powers Resolution is mostly academic, since Congress is basically impotent to stop the President from directing the military to fight at his discretion. (Note: the resolution requires U.S. forces to begin …
The debate about whether President Obama’s war in Libya threatens to violate the 1973 War Powers Resolution is interesting because it exposes a bit of potential hypocrisy on the part of the president. Here is rule-of-law Obama, a former senator, at risk of violating the law and trampling on the authority of the legislative branch of …
It’s probably not much of a surprise that a majority of Republican presidential candidates suggested during CNN’s debate last night that if elected, they would go back to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But they sounded oddly out of touch, since on the very same day, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the transition to …