Remember those assurances that the Iraq War would pay for itself, once those oil revenues began gushing forth from a liberated Iraq? Well, a decade later the Iraq War is paying off, after all —for China.

James B. Comey, the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the decision to imprison José Padilla indefinitely as an "enemy combatant."

Representatives of several major news organizations went behind closed doors Thursday in an off-the-record discussion with Attorney General Eric Holder on the rules governing Department of Justice searches of news media telephone records and e-mail in investigations of news leaks.

John McCain has put "boots on the ground" in Syria after all — his own.

The senior senator from Arizona and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee made the unannounced visit Monday to Syria, crossing the border from Turkey, accompanied by Gen. Salim Idris, leader of the rebel Free Syrian Army.

A number of Republicans spent part of the Memorial Day weekend roundly criticizing the plan announced by President Obama last week to limit the scope and eventually end the war on terror.

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing a bill to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several countries simultaneously.

The special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has turned ugly, with Republican Gabriel Gomez calling Democrat Ed Markey "pond scum" after a Markey TV ad featuring a split screen with Gomez and Osama bin Laden.

Connecticut's seven-week-old gun law, passed in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook School in Newtown in December, has been challenged in federal court.