CIA & Intelligence

  • 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…

  • 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,…