CIA & Intelligence

  • Newspapers Call For US to Drop Charges Against Assange

    It perhaps has not been much noticed much over the holidays, but in November, the editors and publishers of five of the world’s best-known news organizations released an open letter calling for U.S. government officials to drop all charges against Julian Assange — founder of the government watchdog site WikiLeaks — “for publishing secrets.”“The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange,” declared the editors of the New York Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El Pais in their joint statement.The letter strongly implies that Assange is being persecuted for releasing the very facts the people need…

  • Possible Changes To FOIA

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2015Boththe Senate and the House of Representatives are planning a number ofchanges to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), an immensely importantlaw which allows…

  • Mass Surveillance And Civil Rights

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 26th, 2015Even though “targeted lawful interception [of information about suspected individuals] constitutes a necessary and legitimate instrument of intelligence and law enforcement agencies, mass surveillance…

  • No Fly List Lacks Due Process

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 22nd, 2014The U.S. government still has not provided individuals wrongly placed on America’s ‘No Fly’ list a clear legal means by which they may remove…

  • Presidential Electronic Records

    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…

  • Nuclear Weapon Docs Missing

    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…

  • Guantanamo FBI Spying Claims

    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…

  • Crs Report On FISA Court

    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…

  • Is Us Spying On Senate

    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…

  • Intelligence Contractor Info UNreliable

    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…

  • Obama Drone Strike On Us Citizen

    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…

  • Groups Revolt Against NSA Spying

    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…