Trump’s Intel Chiefs See No Ties Between Maduro, Drug Gang
Trump’s own intelligence experts contradict his notion that Maduro or other top Venezuelan officials are directing the criminal gang.
Us Intelligence Update Failing
By Cliff Montgomery – July 7th, 2010The intelligence reform law which created a National Intelligence director and was to integrate and modernize America’s spy community has in many ways been…
Gulf Stafford Act Assistance
By Cliff Montgomery – June 28th, 2010Washington so far has revealed a frightful inability to handle the growing BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But a congressional…
Memo On Recording Interrogations
By Cliff Montgomery – June 22nd, 2010An important Pentagon directive was released in May, apparently meant to ensure the public that future interrogations of those in U.S. military custody follow…
Financial Meltdown Perfect Crime
By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2010It now seems clear the current global financial crisiswas the result of widespread fraud. And it appearsthat the top criminals work on America’s Wall…
Drilling Into Gas Hydrates
By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2010A 2008 U.S. government study, which discussed potentially disruptive gas sediments on the Gulf Coast sea floor, may offer a clue as to what…
Obama Widens Special Ops Use
By Cliff Montgomery – Jun 6th, 2010The Obama Administration has greatly increased the worldwide activities of U.S. Special Operations militaryforces, The Washington Post stated this Friday.Obama is pitting the Special…
Feds Lack Oil Spill Expertise
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2010The federal government currently may lack the necessary resources and expertise to stop or clean up amassive oil spill, according to a Congressional Research…
Private Companies In War
By Cliff Montgomery – May 29th, 2010The federal government’s reliance on private companies for its overseas operations–including war–was thesubject of a very interesting hearing conducted in February 2008 before the…
Toxic Chemical Oversight Failing
By Cliff Montgomery – May 22nd, 2010The federal agency charged with investigating possible community exposures to toxic chemicals is failing at its job, according to a congressional testimony released on…
Possible Thailand Civil War
By Cliff Montgomery – May 16th, 2010Thai protesters are continuing their fervent protests in Bangkok, as troops loyal to Prime Minister AbhisitVejjajiva move in to quash the center of a…
Prisons Are Big Business
By Cliff Montgomery – May 9th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) last month released a study entitled, Economic Impacts of Prison Growth. Its essential findings were telling:A.) America now has…
Bp Lobbying
By Cliff Montgomery – May 4th, 2010A British Petroleum (BP)-leased oil rig located forty miles off the Louisiana coast exploded on April 20th,pouring gargantuan amounts of crude oil into the…
Obama Auto Force
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2010No honest person liked the federal government’scorporate bailouts of 2008-2009. But we at theAmerican Spark feel the special animosity somepeople exhibited toward the bailouts…
Afghanistan Public Opinion
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 24th, 2010Wikileaks recently made available an interesting CIA analysis written in March of this year. It reveals just how governments work to shape issues in…
State Secrets Privilege
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 19th, 2010The Executive Branch’s ‘state secrets’ privilege continues to be a controversial issue for U.S. legal experts and all others interested in protecting our civil…
Why UNions Still Matter
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2010The recent West Virginia mining disaster is a chilling reminder of why unions still matter.”Massey Energy Co., the company which owns the mine, is…
Us Cyberattack Policy
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 4th, 2010″The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber-attack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” according to a press…
Oecd Tax Havens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released a study which discussed a major new international initiative against tax havens.The initiative has been…
DHS Hiding Records
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 24th, 2010When Congress passed the Privacy Act in 1974, it ruled that each person’s right to privacy is fundamental to aworking democracy and that this…
Health Insurance Problem
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 20th, 2010A Congressional Research Service study released in November 2009 reveals that the U.S. insurance industryis directly responsible for much of the explosion in America’s…
Declassification Does Not Work
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 14th, 2010Executive branch departments and agencies in recent years have spent over a billion dollars to declassifyfederal records–but have produced few tangible results.Two executive orders…
Feds May Kill Us Citizens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 9th, 2010A Washington Post article printed on January 27th held a remarkable statement:”Both the CIA and the JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command of the Department…