- At the Lawfare blog Hoover's Benjamin Wittes argues that CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston gave an under appreciated speech at Harvard Law School. Wittes on why talking about lawyering on covert actions involving military force matters.
- "Savor that for a minute: the same Obama who held an outstretched hand to the evil and erratic leader of North Korea is now claiming special foreign policy prowess for adopting the policy he condemns in his predecessor." More from Kori Schake on the Obama administration's posturing on its policy toward North Korea over at Foreign Policy's Shadow Government.
- Reason #437 why Congress deserves its 8% approval rating, courtesy of Keith Hennessey.
