New Fed Study Looks Into Use Of Force Oversight At ICE, DHS
What polices – if any – provide an oversight into the use of force on American citizens?
DNC Charlotte Protests
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 30th, 2012Soon September will be upon us, and with it will come the Democratic National Convention (DNC) being held inCharlotte, NC from Sept. 4th-6th.Now let’s…
Congressional Secrecy
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2012If you’ve been concerned with the unwarranted secrecy which surrounds Congressional lawmaking, it perhaps should be mentioned that some Senators and House members have…
Republican Tax Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 9th, 2012Key Republican lawmakers have introduced tax deform bills which could only explode the deficit and shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the…
Federal Privacy Laws Outdated
By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2012“Technological Changes Have Made Key Elements of [U.S.] Privacy Laws Outdated,” recently testified a leading member of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) before a…
Super Rich Tax Havens
By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2012 The world’s wealthiest individuals may well have up to $32 trillion stashed away in secret tax havens, according to an explosive new report…
Whos Buying Barack Obama
By Cliff Montgomery – July 23rd, 2012Some days ago, The American Spark revealed who is buying the Romney presidential campaign. Now it’s time to unveil who are the top ‘contributors’…
Whos Buying Mitt Romney
By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2012We at The American Spark feel that it is a reporter’s job to tell you what’s really going on in politics and society, and…
Us Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2012“U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most uneven of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the…
Occupy Berkeley
By Cliff Montgomery – June 25th, 2012In Nov. 2011, the Police Department at University of California, Berkeley, worked to end a campus protest begun by the Occupy movement. As readers…
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – June 20th, 2012The War Department (often euphemistically called the “Defense” Department) has singled out 110 sites in America which may be used as bases for drone…
Human Trafficking
By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2012Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney loves to humor business people by consistently calling them “job creators.” But some of those “job creators” are chiefly…
Wal Mart Buying Republicans
By Cliff Montgomery – June 5th, 2012Perhaps many of you spend money at Wal-Mart, the massive chain store that’s wormed its way into nearly every American town. You may not…
Occupy Movement
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2012The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…
Bank Of America Foreclosures Privacy
By Cliff Montgomery – May 30th, 2012For the right price, corporate lobbyists provide their clients with a political power only dreamed about by theaverage American. Bank of America (BoA) knows…
States Diverting Foreclosure Funds
By Cliff Montgomery – May 24th, 2012Lawmakers in many U.S. states are quietly siphoning funds from a multi-billion dollar foreclosure settlement struck earlier this year between the Big Banks and…
CIA Pentagon Operations
By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2012“I will tell you the relationship between CIA and Special Operations Forces is as good as I have ever seen it,”Adm. William McRaven, Commander…
Great Recession Hardest On Youth
By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2012Today’s young people—specifically, those aged 16 through 24—are being especially hard hit by The Great Recession in anumber of different ways, according to a…
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – May 7th, 2012The Pentagon is working to expand its use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly called drones, inU.S. airspace. And according to its 25-year UAS…
Homeland Security
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2012Everyone in government seems to believe that their greatest — indeed, their most sacred — duty is the maintenence of ‘land Security’.The problem is…
Senate CIA Torture Study
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2012The Senate Intelligence Committee has worked for four years on “the only comprehensive in-depth look at the facts and documents pertaining to the creation,…
Protest Choker
The photos appear to show a Boston Police Department cop preparing to choke an Occupy Boston protester.By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 22nd, 2012Our self-proclaimed ‘protectors’ are cracking…Take a good look…
Sec Cannot Handle Its Money
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 15th, 2012The U.S. Government Accountability Office has “identified significant deficiencies in SEC’s internal control over financial reporting,” according to a recent study. And as this…