Politics

A New Jersey man entered a string of guilty pleas Wednesday for sending a series of death threats to some of the largest Latino organizations in the U.S. Vincent Johnson of Brick, N.J., pled guilty to a total of 10 federal felonies: five for sending i...

U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips has denied the government's request for a stay of her order prohibiting the U.S. military from enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy anywhere in the world. In a six-page order released Tuesd...

When seven CIA officers were killed in Afghanistan last December in the worst attack in the agency's history, CIA Director Leon Panetta responded defensively. In an op-ed piece in The Washington Post, he lashed out at those who said poor "tra...

A federal judge has set an unusual two-hour oral argument next month on a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Government right to use drones or other mechanisms to target American citizens for death outside of combat zones. Judge John Bates said Tuesday that...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — part of an administration often accused of not paying enough attention to the concerns of America's high-tech industry — had a breakfast chat Monday with some of the biggest names in Silicon V...

It looks like a former State Department contractor accused of leaking top-secret information about North Korea to Fox News is preparing to mount what might be called the Bob Woodward defense: "If people can leak to Woodward willy-nilly with no con...

The CIA announced Tuesday that it's suing a former intelligence officer who allegedly jumped the gun on the CIA's publication-clearance process by putting out a book — one which just happens to have been highly critical of the agency. The t...

A top lawyer for the Clinton administration is urging President Barack Obama to take a new tack in the ongoing court fight over "don't ask, don't tell" by pressing forward with an appeal of the judge's ban on the policy while simultaneously a...

In something of a snub or a dare to the government, the judge who imposed a ban on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy this week has agreed to hold a hearing on the Justice Department's request for an emergency stay of her orde...

The Pentagon is warning gay service members that they may want to think twice about revealing their sexuality just because a federal judge in California has barred the military from enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. My colleague ...

The federal judge who dealt a blow to the government last week by excluding a key witness from a terrorism trial being held in a civilian court in New York said a military commission might well bar the same witness. The comment in a newly de...

There seems to be a bit of confusion this morning about whether the Justice Department has appealed the judge's order blocking enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell," or whether government lawyers have simply declared their intent to appeal. ...