How Much Time to Reverse Insurgent Momentum?

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) read Gen. Stanley McChrystal back his August assessment that the U.S. has “12 months” to reverse the insurgency’s momentum. So, he asks, do we just have nine months now?

“I think it’s important that we turn it around quickly, I might say a little bit longer More…

Hosenball n’ Isikoff: Panetta Wasn’t Talking About Torture

Great piece by Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff peeling back more layers from CIA Director Leon Panetta’s apparent concession that CIA misled Congress about unspecified “significant actions.” Their reporting finds, contra Sam Stein, that the actions in question weren’t about the “enhanced interrogation program,” but rather some More…