We Americans like to differentiate our playbook from the one Russia and China uses. Their foreign policy we view as self-serving, while ours is designed to serve as a beacon for human decency across the globe. But, according to the writers Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, a whistle

I wrote a note to U. S. Senator Diane Feinstein a few days ago. Feinstein serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and I was disappointed to learn she had labeled Edward Snowden a traitor because he’d taken his information about government surveillance to the press rath

Jack Goldsmith isn’t worried about the NSA . He teaches at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law so he’s pretty confident about where the United States is going when it comes to its security agency. He predicts the cur

Some time ago, I received a reply to one of my blogs which was about the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war. The response came from a gentleman who had worked for Paul Wolfowitz when Wolfowitz was Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration. The writer wanted to cor

Given the anger the public has expressed since the bank debacle and the government’s bail out and the fact that polls show only 6% of the population approves of the job Congress is doing, I’m surprised at the nation’s apparent lack of concern about the National Security Agencyâ€