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By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8, 2014 Edward Snowden still has stories to tell. Today the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor had an interesting talk with the Council of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2014These days, federal spies keep a constant watch on U.S. citizens as government officials discuss a number of changes to such questionable activity. With…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2014Does America actually stand for human rights? That depends on which federal bureaucrat you ask, according to a recent study from the Congressional Research…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 9th, 2014The CIA’s internal watchdog has asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into charges that the Agency may have conducted illegal spying operations…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2014Oleksander Turchynov, the acting president of Ukraine, today accused Russia of trying to push his country into “armed conflict” after reports came of Russian…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 23rd, 2014Current federal data on U.S. intelligence contractors are unreliable, stated a recently-released study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).This deficit of solid information undermines…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 19th, 2014President Obama may soon assassinate a U.S. citizen via drone strike because the administration thinks that person has turned to ‘terrorism’, officials quietly acknowledged…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 13th, 2014House Republicans have the worst voting record on environmental matters in over 40 years, according to a group which tracks such legislative activity.The League…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 6th, 2014The National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance actions have horrified those who are dedicated to preserving Americans’ natural rights and attendant civil liberties. And…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2014The Obama Administration must sack intelligence chief James Clapper if it hopes to reform the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying programs, a number of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 23rd, 2014The statute cited by the National Security Agency (NSA) as justification for its bulk collection of telephone records “permits only the FBI to obtain…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 14th, 2014It’s getting harder to find clean water in America. “State officials…reported that pollutants had been reduced in many waters, but few impaired water bodies…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 8th, 2014A federal judge in December ruled that the Obama Administration must release an unclassified presidential directive, adding that any attempt to withhold the document…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 28th, 2013Available evidence suggests that “intelligence spending, measured in constant 2014 dollars, has roughly doubled since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,” revealed a federal…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 17th, 2013A federal judge yesterday released a ferocious rebuke to the Obama Administration’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone information, declaring the action “almost Orwellian” and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 12th, 2013Federal officials say that the Department of land Security (DHS) is ‘essential to America’s dire battleagainst all domestic threats’. Yet DHS – the third-largest…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 6th, 2013A number of U.S. lawmakers are quietly working to ease economic restrictions and allow Pentagon officials to buy numerous products and materials from foreign…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2013A U.S.-produced flyer released to Internet cafes has listed a number of ‘suspicious activities’ which a terrorist might employ at those businesses.The document at…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2013The National Security Agency (NSA) has infected over 50,000 computer networks around the world with malicious software for the purpose of conducting spying activities,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 13th, 2013Since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed a program which profiles airlinepassengers “without validating its scientific basis” or performance, a federal watchdog…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 13th, 2013Since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed a program which profiles airlinepassengers “without validating its scientific basis” or performance, a federal watchdog…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 7th, 2013In 2012, the concentration of gases placed in the atmosphere which scientists identify as the chief cause forglobal warming rose to an all-time recorded…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 29th, 2013For over 50 years, U.S. intelligence agencies have given the American citizen an access to unclassified, open-source information from around the world. It’s long…