Rowan Scarborough

Election poll accuracy in doubt with disparity, outdated methodology

What a difference four years, and perhaps Republican Donald Trump, make. National polls are anything but uniform. Perhaps this disparity was signaled in 2014, when pollsters badly missed in a number of key races by undercounting Republican voters.

October 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton scandals, FBI ‘politicization’ date back to first lady tenure

Hillary Clinton remains embroiled in email and pay-for-play scandals from her days as secretary of state, but as first lady she also fell into questionable behavior that dogged her husband's first term.

October 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton embraces George Soros’ ‘radical’ vision of open-border world

Hillary Clinton has aligned herself closely with a vision for America laid out by her benefactor -- left-wing financier George Soros, who talks of "international governance," more open borders, increased Muslim immigration and diminished U.S. global power.

October 20, 2016

Obama administration sues Peter Thiel; Palantir; conservatives see political reprisal

A bitter struggle between an innovative Silicon Valley software inventor and the Army has shifted from the raging battlefields of Afghanistan to a sedate federal claims court in Washington.

October 16, 2016

Colin Powell hacked emails packed with political gossip, pop culture banter

The Colin Powell chronicles capture Washington for all it has to offer a retired general, statesman and esteemed member of the ruling class.

October 13, 2016

9/11 law sparks intense Saudi media backlash

Saudi Arabia's state-controlled media have launched an intense rash of news articles against the United States and the new federal law that allows Americans to sue Riyadh over the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

October 11, 2016

Marc Turi’s charges dropped in Libya weapons scheme

Whether there is another chapter to tell in the Hillary Clinton-Benghazi chronicles vanished this week in a U.S. District Court in Arizona.

October 5, 2016

Israel nuclear arsenal estimate was high

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's recently disclosed estimate that Israel owns 200 nuclear weapons has triggered new interest in the Jewish state's ultimate war plan.

October 2, 2016

Veterans facing hostility in federal workplace

An Iranian-designed bomb on a route south of Baghdad shattered Patrick Hanley's arm, skull and life on March 29, 2008, sending the Army soldier to shifting addresses on a grueling tour of military hospitals and mental health centers that strive to make service members whole again.

October 2, 2016

Homegrown terrorists to target concerts, sporting events, DHS warns

The nation's top counterterrorism official testified Tuesday that the world's army of terrorists is "broader, wider and deeper than any point since 9/11," the day al Qaeda attacked America.

September 27, 2016

Pentagon’s top brass explores Islamic ideology’s ties to terror behind the scenes

U.S. Special Operations Command has privately pressed the staff of the nation's highest-ranking military officer to include in his upcoming National Military Strategy a discussion of the Sunni Muslim ideology underpinning the brutality of the Islamic State group and al Qaeda.

September 25, 2016

Obama wary of generals, admirals commanding in war

As the four armed forces chiefs testified in the Senate about the national security dangers of mandated budget caps, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked each officer if he had discussed the readiness crisis with President Obama.

September 18, 2016

Marine Corps’ top brass in Washington silences ‘women in combat’ dissenters

Marine Corps headquarters has sent out a Communications Playbook that says top brass in Washington, not local public affairs officers, will control press statements about women in combat.

September 15, 2016

Obama administration micromanagement hamstrings air command in ISIS fight

The monthly scorecards issued by U.S. Central Command's Air Force component illustrate how carefully — critics would say how inadequately -- the White House oversees the air war against the Islamic State.

September 13, 2016

Obama launches first cyberwar against ISIS, cuts recruiting by 75 percent

The Obama administration has launched the first cyberwar against the Islamic State, a war that, coupled with real, not virtual, fighting, is producing one of the most encouraging on-the-ground successes in the conflict -- sharply cutting into the number of foreign fighters sneaking into Syria to join the group's terrorist army and its so-called Islamic caliphate.

September 12, 2016

Islamic State propaganda machine exposed by MEMRI

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has carved out a reputation as the premier tracker and exposer of jihadi social media regularly released by various Islamic State media companies. What MEMRI finds is a constant daily drumbeat of Islamic State propaganda.

September 12, 2016

U.S. special operations troops in ISIS fight frustrated with limited role

Special operations troops say they should be doing more in the war against the Islamic State group, complaining of strict rules of engagement and White House limits on troop numbers in Iraq and Syria.

September 11, 2016

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda leader: 9/11 attack ‘blessed’

The leader of al Qaeda has addressed the world in a video statement on the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, calling the massacre "blessed raids" and urging Muslims to cause more bloodshed in America.

September 9, 2016

Obama viewed NATO as a ‘threat’ rather than peace alliance, top U.S. general charges

The top U.S. general in Europe said President Obama looked at NATO as a warmonger "worry" and "threat" rather than an alliance trying to keep the peace.

September 9, 2016

ISIS exploits U.S. rules of engagement, Obama’s aversion to civilian deaths even in defeat

Even in losing, the Islamic State group has shown it conducts a "lessons learned" exercise so it won't repeat battlefield mistakes.

August 21, 2016