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By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 27th, 2014Congress now is considering several changes to the Executive Branch’s surveillance powers, thanks to the revelations of whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden.Much of the controversy…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2014The National Security Agency (NSA) must prepare unclassified studies on “all NSA bulk collection activities,” declared the Senate Appropriations Committee in its Defense Department…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2014“Emergency Medical Treatment Presents [an] Opportunity for Discovery of Violent Extremist Activities,” declares a federal document prepared for fire, rescue and Emergency Medical Services…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 29th, 2014The huge amounts of wastewater pumped into the ground by Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industries probably have triggered a sudden increase in earthquakes…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 22nd, 2014Although climate change has become a significant influence on the creation of national disasters, “the federal government is not well positioned to address the…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 9th, 2014The chief law governing the preservation of White House records may not properly ensure the maintenance of media associated with “new and sometimes ephemeral…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 2nd, 2014U.S. officials have learned that foreign Internet hackers are using well-known social network sites to successfully target “federal, state and local government and private…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 23rd, 2014New York City officials have quietly agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to a band of Occupy Wall Street protesters, as compensation for what the…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2014 covered the daily activities of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC) held in the city of Charlotte, NC. A large amount of our…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2014American ports – which handle over $1.3 trillion in cargo every year – remain open to dangerous and disruptive cyber-security attacks, according to a…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 28th, 2014The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) runs a national data system which earlier this year contained around 200 million records on approximately two billion…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 19th, 2014John Chambers, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cisco Systems Inc., has had enough of the National Security Agency’s blatant spying activities, according to…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 13th, 2014The U.S. Defense Department can’t account for how it spends your tax dollars, according to an eye-opening federal testimony released today.The testimony came from…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 6th, 2014Duke University Professor Nicholas Carnes knows a few things about the American economy and its real influence on our society at large. After all,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2014A recent academic study appears to reveal a truth about America that grassroots causes like the Occupy movement state plainly: Democracy in this country…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 23rd, 2014Classified documents which detail the assembly of nuclear weapons and weapons components have not been correctly maintained by weapons laboratories overseen by the National…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 16th, 2014The judge who presides over the legal process concerning five 9/11 terrorist suspects adjourned preliminary hearings yesterday, after discovering that federal law enforcement agencies…

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…