CIA & Intelligence

  • Trump Must Inform Congress of Military Actions

    In recent articles, we at have worked to bring readers a series of deep, multi-part investigations of questionable historical actions performed by the U.S. intelligence community. Those articles have proven breathtakingly unpopular. We hear you. We’ll drop the intended series, work to ‘stay in our lane’ and keep our focus on current events. Now and again, we will still use past events to show why a modern action performed by government officials should not be trusted, or even allowed. But the important thing is to give our readers what they want nd need. Donald Trump admitted on Sunday a failure…

  • 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,”…