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…

  • Us Spending On Spy Network

    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…

  • Federal Judge Rules Against NSA Spying

    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…

  • NSA Infected Computer Networks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2013The National Security Agency (NSA) has infected over 50,000 computer networks around the world with malicious software for the purpose of conducting spying activities,…

  • Gao Study On TSA Profiling

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 13th, 2013Since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed a program which profiles airlinepassengers “without validating its scientific basis” or performance, a federal watchdog…

  • Pentagon And Authorized Leaks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2013Thanks to a new Pentagon directive, Congress will be informed whenever a Defense official is authorized to release classified data to a journalist. Despite…

  • FBI Drone Use

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 28th, 2013The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has deployed unmanned ‘drone’ aircraft for domestic spying activities since 2006, it was recently revealed.The Bureau has spent…

  • NSA Admits To Willful Violations

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 9th, 2013“The National Security Agency [NSA] now says that some of its analysts knowingly and deliberately exceededits surveillance authority on occasion over the past decade,”…

  • Us Minimum Wage Since 1968

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 27th, 2013A very short, four-page study outlining the real value of the U.S. minimum wage – or, to be precise, its breathtaking loss of value…

  • Al Gore On NSA Spying

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2013“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,…

  • China Hacks Into Us Weapon Systems

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 28th, 2013Computer hackers in China have accessed the designs for a large number of America’s most sensitive weapons systems, The Washington Post declared yesterday.“Among more…

  • Obama And Control Of Information

    The Obama Administration appears more concerned with controlling what people think than just about anything else these days.By Cliff Montgomery – May 21st, 2013The U.S. Defense Department has released to…

  • Appointment To Fisc

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 10th, 2013U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has named Michael Mosman, Judge for the District ofOregon, as the most recent appointee to the United…