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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…

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…