The SEC has a statutory obligation to consider efficiency, competition and capital formation when it makes its rules, and it violated the APA by failing to do so.

If Iran can build a nuclear weapon, then do we really care whether it has? Once the requisite fissile materials and the design for a warhead and the preliminary testing (not necessarily requiring a detonation) have taken place, aren’t the two the same, plus or minus a couple of weeks?

Saturday’s NYT had a piece bylined by James Risen about the Ghosts of Iraq Haunting CIA in Tackling Iran. It’s a Captain Obvious story in conception.

There are arguments to be made as to why an Israeli strike now on Iran’s nuclear program would be ill conceived. There are even arguments to be made for a containment regime. I may not agree with those arguments, but they represent a point of view grounded in an honest assessment of reality.

The Christmas terrorist attack demonstrates the need for more effective communication and analysis within the U.S. intelligence community, and greater centralization and bureaucracy are causes behind, not solutions to its failings.

A leak from the Obama administration in Saturday's Washington Post suggests that the President will know in advance should Iran decide  to create a nuclear weapon. AEI foreign and defense policy expert Danielle Pletka reviews the facts that dismantle the administration's false assertion.

Some intelligenceanalysts think there is no covert nuclear-arms program at all, while others are not so sure.

It is impossible to ignore Iran's active efforts to expand, improve, and conceal its nuclear weapons program in Syria.