The wiretapping controversy has set up a classic confrontation between the executive and legislative branches.

President Barack Obama will soon realize that governing involves hard choices.

The U.S. government seems to have no plan to stop Julian Assange, the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massively successful effort to disclose secret or classified information.

The inspectors general report ignores history and plays politics with the law.

What does the Constitution permit the president to do in times of war?

In his new book,James Risensays some very shocking things, thingsfar more troublesome than the legalities about NSA"s intercepts of conversations involving terrorists.

Congress is right to honor Porter Goss, but it should also let the director of national intelligence continue to grow in stature.

Sometimes in Washington, what is most scandalous is the attempt to create a scandal where none exists.