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Major Garrett

Correspondent-at-Large

mgarrett@nationaljournal.com

Major Garrett is National Journal Correspondent-at-Large and Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News. Prior to National Journal, Garrett reported for Fox News, where he was the Chief Wh...

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ALL POWERS June 11, 2013

Storage Wars: Government’s Vast Lockers of Data Threaten Basic Individual Freedoms

By Major Garrett

Freedom is merely a word, and its definition a putrid joke in a world where a life's history resides forever in a vast database. Read more »

ALL POWERS June 4, 2013

Vacancy Packing: Obama Emerges From His Five-Year Appeals-Court Nap

By Major Garrett

Picking a judicial nomination fight used to be rare. But in the past two decades, it has become a burdensome and often ugly blood sport. Read more »

ALL POWERS May 28, 2013

How We Could Do More For Our Vets

By Major Garrett

We need to go into debt to pay our debt to U.S. veterans to make sure they get the care and services we owe them. Read more »

ALL POWERS May 21, 2013

Obama Pushes to Accommodate, Not Protect, Freedom of the Press

By Major Garrett

Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing. Read more »

ALL POWERS April 30, 2013

Obama Appears at a Loss to Define the Way Forward in Syria

By Major Garrett

The fuzzy red lines and rhetoric blur what comes next. Read more »

ALL POWERS April 23, 2013

Was the Ball Dropped in the Tsarnaev Questioning?

By Major Garrett

To paraphrase Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz: This is our @#$&%! Constitution. Read more »

ALL POWERS April 9, 2013

The Lives of Thatcher, Reagan, and Pope John Paul II Prove Presence Counts, Remembering Doesn’t

By Major Garrett

It is both cruel and instructive that the three pivotal and decisive foes of communism—Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II—had, in all likelihood, no memory of their world-transforming triumph when each stepped into the great beyond. Read more »

ALL POWERS March 26, 2013

The Ghost of Paul Simon Haunts Obama

By Major Garrett

The late Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., warned in the '80s and '90s that Democrats would eventually have to cut government in ways they opposed. Read more »

ALL POWERS March 19, 2013

Empty-Handed Tourist?

By Major Garrett

JERUSALEM — President Obama arrives in Israel less burdened than any previous U.S. president by the diplomatic malignancy known as the peace process. Read more »