U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice may get the last laugh. Republicans won't be able to stop her from claiming her consolation prize, which, if a new report proves to be accurate, will be as the head of national security.
You don't see this every day: Four-star Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward is under investigation for burning through hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on lavish travel and hotels, according to The Associated Press' Lolita C. Baldor, and as a result, Ward is just biding his time in what's basically a timeout.
A lot has changed since the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and some things have stayed the same, but today marks a new milestone in the months since the ban on gays serving openly in the military was repealed: The appointment of the first openly gay general.
America's least favorite mercenary firm got another black eye on Tuesday when it admitted to key facts behind 17 federal criminal charges.
Just because a bill receives bipartisan support, doesn't mean it's any good.
The National Security Agency is desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation's critical infrastructure, but its reputation for spying on Americans has damaged its reputation among cyber sleuths.
You wouldn't think of suburban New York as a battlefront for the war in Afghanistan, but for the growing number of U.S. drone operators at the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, that's exactly what it is.
On the campaign trail, Republicans are using national security leaks to attack President Obama. But reporters may be the ones who ultimately suffer from this summer's leak hysteria.
Did you know the Pentagon spends $80 million a year on NASCAR sponsorships, ultimate cage fighting, bass fishing tournaments and other sports?
President Obama's recently signed executive order outlining emergency control of the Internet didn't get much attention in the U.S. but it's spooking foreign journalists.
Senator Lindsey Graham would like you to believe he's outraged about a recent spate of high level leaks because they jeopardize our national security. Turns out, that's not really his primary concern.
In what appears to be the first defection of its kind, a Syrian fighter pilot has landed at a military base in neighboring Jordan Thursday and has requested asylum, according to Jordanian officials.
The Justice Department investigation into who leaked national security secrets hasn't even started yet and most experts say it will drag on for months but a rising chorus of conservatives think they've got their man: national security adviser Tom Donilon.
New York Times reporter David Sanger just got the plug of a lifetime for his new book Confront and Conceal even though it came from someone who wishes it was never published.
Washington is united in outrage over a series of U.S. national security leaks, and it's far from certain who will get burned, but the crackdowns could backfire on the Obama administration, Republicans, Congressional members, and the press.
ProPublica's Justin Elliott tries to lay out exactly what's known (not much) about President Obama's policy on drone strikes, what's not (a lot), and what the White House is saying in response to a New York Times report.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's threat to let steep cuts hit the Pentagon seems to be working, as some staunchly anti-tax Republican Senators appear to be warming to revenue increases.
The cat is out of the bag: The United States is the first known country to carry out a sustained cyber attack with the intent of destroying another country's infrastructure.
Inspired by The New York Times' exposé on Obama's "secret 'kill list,'" we collected some of the best pieces of watchdog journalism on Obama's national security policies.
Last night, Mitt Romney slammed President Obama's handling of the Syrian conflict while offering a plan that basically mirrors the White House's position.
Just when you thought Pakistan's shady legal system couldn't get any shadier, the treason case against Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, takes a wild turn.
The economic theory advocating short-term public spending in a recession followed by boom time debt reduction is heretical in modern Republican parlance, but GOP lawmakers are making an exception when defense spending is at stake.
The stakes loom large as six world powers meet in Baghdad today to agree on curbing Iran's nuclear program
The two Air Force pilots who put their careers on the line to blow the whistle on the military's F-22 fleet on 60 Minutes will have their chance at vindication.
The heat is on a U.S. official responsible for leaking details of al Qaeda's disrupted bomb plot to the Associated Press.
A top Afghan peace official was killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday. Arsala Rahmani was a member of the High Peace Council, and was considered one of the countries biggest assets for negotiating peace talks with the Taliban.
It's not every day you hear the head of the Pentagon asking for more cuts to his department, but that's exactly what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta did on Thursday.
Much has been made of the parents of POW Bowe Bergdahl, who criticized President Obama's efforts to free their son this week and spearheaded their own efforts to release him from his Taliban captors. But what's less publicized is one of the major impediments to their son's release: Senator John McCain.
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor may have a design flaw that causes pilots to lose oxygen but, hey, it's a really fast plane!
Sprinkled between rants about mobilizing jihadi fighters and destroying the United States, there's an a lot of commentary about the American media in the recently released Osama bin Laden letters. The only problem is that Bin Laden probably didn't write these things.
Original document buffs, today is your lucky day: The U.S. government has finally released a trove of 17 documents declassified after the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad, and you can download them in full from the Combatting Terrorism Center.
If you thought that President Obama's speech last night signaled the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan, you weren't alone. Unfortunately, the pact he signed with Afghan president Hamid Karzai will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade.
We thought the lawsuit from activist group Judicial Watch might actually result in the release of at least some of the photos of Osama bin Laden's death, but on Thursday a judge ruled that in fact none of them should be released.
The Taliban's brazen 18-hour offensive is over and now NATO and Afghan officials are scrambling to figure out how the insurgency struck at the heart of Afghanistan's capital.
Nobody can quite figure out why North Korea, a country that instinctively lies to its people, admitted to the embarrassing failure of its rocket launch this morning.
The narrative of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound is getting another revamp, and this time, bin Laden's youngest wife doesn't get shot in the leg.
It's difficult to interpret the widely-touted deal between the U.S. and Afghanistan over night raids in any way other than as a political gift to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
North Korean officials tried to ease tensions over its upcoming rocket launch by opening its launch pad on Sunday to the international press. It didn't work.
The White House wants us to know something important about Iran—but what is it?
After weeks of bluster, North Korea is finally going to fire a satellite into polar orbit next week, which raises several questions.
Yesterday, the U.S. Army sent out a new request to its clients in the military industrial complex: We need heavy-duty underwear. But any old bullet-proof boxers; they must be comfy.
The Obama administration has repeatedly vowed that there is "no daylight" between the U.S. and Israel when it comes to Iran, but a pair of new reports show how false the claim actually is.
Politico's profile of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and his run of top-level scoops has been greeted with some grumbling from his colleagues who are quick to point out that his high-profile exclusives were based on leaks from the White House.
From everyday Afghans to the Taliban insurgency to the highest elected officials, accusations that the U.S. covered-up the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians have gone mainstream in Afghanistan.
No one will be able to pinpoint exactly what made an American staff sergeant massacre 16 Afghan civilians, but the facts surrounding the senseless killing spree will loom large in his prosecution.
You can sum up the White House's diplomatic surge following the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in two phrases: Keep calm and draw down.
In a rare moment of agreement, President Obama and Mitt Romney are carving out the same position on the war in Afghanistan following the alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a rogue U.S. Army soldier.
In Afghan and regional media, the most pressing question about the horrific killings of 16 Afghan civilians by a rogue U.S. soldier is whether he acted alone.
The Afghanistan government, which was embarrassed last April when nearly 500 prisoners escaped from its largest prison, has reached a deal with the U.S. to take custody of some 3,000 detainees within six months.
For all the GOP's muscular talk on Iran and its pledges to increase military spending, there's one place those calls aren't quite resonating: Within the military.
President Obama's pledge that the United States "will always have Israel's back" and will attack Iran if it develops a nuclear weapon reverberated across the world Monday.
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