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    NAPOLITANO: Presidential debate silence on Libya

    The final presidential debate earlier this week was a tailor-made opportunity for Mitt Romney to rip into President Obama's inconsistent, value-free and at times incoherent foreign policy.

  • Illustration: China by M. Ryder for The Washington Times

    TKACIK: China builds nuclear arsenal while rest of the world disarms

    While the United States negotiates with Russia on dismantling America's nuclear arsenal, China has become the world's busiest builder of nuclear weapons. If America's allies, especially in Asia, lose confidence in the U.S. nuclear deterrent, the Obama administration's vaunted "pivot to the Pacific" will become irrelevant.

  • President Obama talks with Emily Young, first-time voter and student at University of Miami, on Sept. 20, 2012, at OMG Burger in Miami. (Associated Press)

    Obama, Romney swap barbs on who’s out of touch

    President Obama sought Thursday to capitalize on opponent Mitt Romney's rough week, saying the GOP nominee is out of touch if he stands by his caught-on-camera moment calling many voters "victims" who are dependent on government.

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Deception’

    Much of the media, both domestic and foreign, found considerable merriment in the June 2010 announcement of the arrest and expulsion of 10 Russian intelligence agents who were in the United States as "sleeper agents" -- that is, spies who would be dormant while they posed as unremarkable civilians and wormed their ways into positions where they could obtain valuable information.

  • Illustration Jailed Money by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    PAUL: Help SEAL Team 6, go straight to jail in Pakistan

    Most Americans remember where they were on 9/11/2001.

  • World Briefs: Suspected Australian spy linked to wider espionage

    A Canadian naval officer arrested this year for allegedly leaking secrets may also have compromised top-level Australian, British and American intelligence, according to Australian security sources.

  • **FILE** This is a Aug. 18, 2011 file photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defence shows Royal Air Force Puma helicopter is seen flying over the 2012 Olympic Stadium on Aug. 18, 2011, during a training flight in London. (Associated Press/SAC Phil Major RAF, MOD)

    U.S.-U.K. security experts unite for London Olympics

    The London Olympics are no ordinary games. Not since World War II have Britain and the United States teamed up for such a massive security operation on British soil.

  • ** FILE ** President Obama is introduced by White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe before the president speaks at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

    Plouffe won't say if Obama will take part in leaks probe

    As U.S. Justice Department attorneys probe recent high-level national security leaks from the White House, a top adviser to President Obama on Sunday refused to say whether the commander in chief will answer investigators' questions.

  • Retired Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S.

    A retired Russian military officer has been convicted on charges of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the counterintelligence agency said Thursday, the latest in a raft of espionage cases that come amid tensions between Moscow and Washington.

  • Palestinians wait as trucks carrying coffins containing the remains of bodies of 12 Palestinian militants transferred from Israel to the Palestinians arrive in the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, in Beit Hanoun, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

    World Briefs: Israel hands over militants' remains

    Israel on Thursday handed over to the Palestinian government the remains of 91 militants who had been killed while carrying out suicide bombings and other attacks in an effort to renew long-stalled peace talks.

  • ** FILE ** Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    U.S. commanders: No plan to cede Afghan war to CIA

    U.S. military commanders said Wednesday there are no plans to turn the Afghan war over to CIA control after 2014, with special operations answering to American intelligence officials.

  • A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

    As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts.

  • ** FILE ** Pedestrians pass the Google China headquarters in Beijing in March 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

    A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

    As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Elusive Enemy'

    Contrary to its subtitle, "The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet" is less about naval intelligence than it is about how the American fighting forces in the Pacific had to decipher for themselves the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese fleet.

  • Inside Politics

    California's largest gay-rights group has decided against trying to have the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex unions overturned next year.

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