CIA & Intelligence

  • US Wars of Exploitation Cuba

    The American Spark has decided to discuss a few key, well-documented instances in which U.S. officials worked to overthrow foreign governments too left-wing for their personal taste. The next three articles we publish will discuss a very disturbing U.S. plan of action intended to smear socialist Cuba and provide a false pretense for invasion of the island nation. The problem? The plan – called Operation Northwoods – called for a series of terrorist actions to be performed on the American people by their own government. Cuba would be falsely blamed for the attacks, and a U.S. invasion of the island…

  • Pentagon Covert Actions

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2013Pentagon officials may well be engaging in covert actions without a legally required presidential finding andnotification of congressional intelligence committees, according to a recent…

  • Us Torture UNits In Iraq

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 9th, 2013A number of American and Iraqi witnesses have connected top U.S. advisers – including former CIA Director General David Petraeus – to human rights…

  • Us Spies Want Supercomputer

    Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 26th, 2013Kade Crockford is hopping mad.“The government has largely gotten away with blowing up the parts of the Bill of Rights” that in a bygone era…

  • Obama Nuke Secrets

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2013In The Origin of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that “real power begins where secrecy begins.” If we accept this statement as true,…

  • Drones In Us Airspace

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2013The agency charged with flying unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace so far has failed to meet basic privacy, reliability, safety, and performance standards…

  • Obama Murdering Us Citizens

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 8th, 2013On Feb. 4th, eleven senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to release to Congress “the secret legal opinions outlining your authority…

  • Privacy In America

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 18th, 2012In October, the Congressional Research Service – an federal entity that works to provide members of Congress with simple, easy-to-understand reports on matters of…

  • DHS Fusion Centers

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 9th, 2012Lawmakers claim to be interested in cutting acts of useless federal spending. If they were serious, they would close the 77 ‘fusion centers’ currently…

  • Gao Gitmo Detainees

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2012A leading Democratic senator has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) “to review existing U.S. facilities and identify factors to be considered in the…

  • Government Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2012National security experts “estimate that the amount of material that is over-classified by the federal government ranges from 50% – 90%,” a top secrecy…

  • Congressional Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2012If you’ve been concerned with the unwarranted secrecy which surrounds Congressional lawmaking, it perhaps should be mentioned that some Senators and House members have…

  • Federal Privacy Laws Outdated

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2012“Technological Changes Have Made Key Elements of [U.S.] Privacy Laws Outdated,” recently testified a leading member of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) before a…

  • CIA Pentagon Operations

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2012“I will tell you the relationship between CIA and Special Operations Forces is as good as I have ever seen it,”Adm. William McRaven, Commander…

  • Senate CIA Torture Study

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2012The Senate Intelligence Committee has worked for four years on “the only comprehensive in-depth look at the facts and documents pertaining to the creation,…

  • Special Ops

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 29th, 2012U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing an increasing role in military operations even though their activities often are classified and thus outside public…

  • Pentagon Spies

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2012“Some lawmakers reportedly have expressed concern that the Pentagon is creating a parallel intelligencecapability independent from the CIA or other American authorities, and one…

  • Obama Whistleblowers

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 24th, 2012It’s a rare occurrence, but every now and again a member of the corporate media actually does his job.ABC’s Jake Tapper recently held the…

  • Cell Phone Tracking

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 10th, 2012There’s an ongoing debate in legal circles over the federal government’s “right” to track private vehicles and cell phones, according to a recently released…

  • Iran Nukes

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 27th, 2011The United Nation’s atomic energy agency “has ‘broken the rules’ by publicly releasing a report on Iran’snuclear program that should have been kept confidential,”…

  • Review Of FBI Police State Powers

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 18th, 2011A Congressional report published in April offers a steady look into the mind-set of America’s current police state.This police state continually demands more invasive…