Rosa Brooks, a Pentagon official during the first Obama term and now at Georgetown University, told the hearing: “I've frankly never seen such an accomplished, talented group of people give such muddled and incoherent answers.” Copyright The Financial ...

Based on the book by national security journalist Peter Bergen, “Manhunt†features interviews with more than a dozen key players in the decade-plus-long race to catch the world’s most wanted man, both before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...

As Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, told Charlie Rose in a recent interview about the Boston bombers, “I don't necessarily think these are real jihadi terrorists. I think they are angry kids. … They may have ...

"The problems facing the new government will be immense, and this may be the last chance that the country's existing elites have to solve them," said Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College, London, and author of a book on Pakistan. "If the lives ...