The withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan was America’s “greatest self-inflicted wound,” said former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a speech at Hillsdale College on Monday. He accused President Joe Biden of casting aside the Trump administration’s plans for an “orderly and structured withdrawal,” resulting in a humiliation for the United States and...
Extradition hearings for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began this week in London. Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Assange under the Espionage Act in relation to publishing documents leaked by Chelsea Manning detailing U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charges allege that Assange aided Manning to retrieve the documents by helping...