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By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 27th, 2009A Pentagon agency which advised the Bush Administration against the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects flatly called the employment of extreme…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 23rd, 2009Top executives at Chrysler Financial spurned a much-needed government loan because they couldn’t bringthemselves to accept its conditional pay limits, stated a study released…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2009Nearly one quarter of U.S. households fell into danger of losing their homes during the first three months of2009–a free-fall that certainly will grow…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr, 13th, 2009The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) is meant to protect servicemembers from “judicial andadministrative proceedings and transactions that may adversely affect their legal rights…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8th, 2009Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) last Thursday on the Senate floor exposed a number of GOP distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies regarding that chamber’s Fiscal…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 6th, 2009American intelligence predicts that Afghanistan’s level of violence will climb through 2009, despite PresidentBarack Obama’s new plan for fighting the Taliban and providing additional…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 2nd, 2009The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a tough review exposing the InteriorDepartment’s poor oversight of oil and gas companies which are allowed to…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2009A billion people will live in famine as global food security breaks down in the coming decades, states a top U.S.scientist.State Department chief scientist…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2009Senate Republicans appear set to effectively kill any reasonable attempt to reclaim the bonuses which”bailout” companies like insurance giant American International Group (AIG) are…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2009A March report from the Congressional Research Service precisely states what’s at stake thanks to theunmitigated greed and incompetence of Wall Street: nothing less…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 13th, 2009Iran still does not possess the essential material needed to create a nuclear weapon, two leading U.S.intelligence officers told a Senate panel on Tuesday.…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2009President Obama’s plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is both a vital effort to rebuild the country’s crumbling transportation system and a boost to its…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 7th, 2009The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) destroyed twelve videotapes which may have recorded the torture ofindividuals accused of terrorist activity by the Bush Administration, reveal…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 5th, 2009An industry survey has revealed that a whopping 48 percent of those with a sub-prime, adjustable-ratemortgage either are failing to keep up with their…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2009Republican state governors such as Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Rick Perry (Texas) and Haley Barbour(Mississippi) recently have produced quite a spectacle with their rejection of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2009New inter-agency structures supposedly meant to provide a superior intelligence response to national securitythreats were the subject of a recently-disclosed Intelligence Community (IC)Directive, one…

By Cliff Montgomery Feb. 22nd, 2009Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed to guarantee that such essential medical devices as replacement heart valves, cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2009For too long, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been little more than a second-tier federal agency. But America’s current economic…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2009 Congressional negotiators announced a stimulus deal on Wednesday which forged a somewhat slimmer $787 billion economic plan than what President Barack Obama had…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 9th, 2009The Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of videotapes which may have shown the torture of suspectedterrorists is the topic of “an ongoing criminal investigation” which…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 7th, 2009Every two years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) releases an updated list of federaloperations, programs and policies that either are “high risks” for…