CIA & Intelligence

  • US Wars Of Exploitation Iran

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2019Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, believed that one had to go to the earliest possible sources to determine the truths of history. That may not always be correct. But when those sources are some of the very people who performed a particular act of history – and they wrote their memoir just after the act was performed – you are left with something like a confession.Their memoir is sure to be somewhat self-serving – but if one is careful with all their talk, one can always…

  • Us War Training

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 30th, 2011The U.S. trains a host of foreign military personnel but often fails to teach them to respect human rights, states a recent report from…

  • Government Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 23rd, 2011“Real power begins where secrecy begins.”- Hannah Arendt (The Origin of Totalitarianism, 1951)The United States and some other nations now possess security services that…

  • CIA And Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 28nd, 2011In 2009, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up a Center on Climate Change and National Security. Top heads at the Agency apparently understood…

  • National Reconnaissance Office

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2011The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) creates, launches and operates America’s intelligence satellites. It has been especially active in the past 12 months.”We are nearly…

  • Us Aid UNion Attacks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 28th, 2011U.S. government aid to Columbia may have been diverted to undermine and attack union activists in the SouthAmerican country, according to press reports and…

  • Rise In Domestic Spying

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2011By nearly every measure, federal spying increased on American citizens and residents in 2010, stated a recently-released Justice Department (DoJ) report prepared for Congress.The…

  • Special Ops On Rise

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 14th, 2011American Special Operations Forces (SOF) have rapidly grown across the board since Sept. 11th, 2001, with a new host of missions, swelling ranks and…

  • Us Backed Dictators Middle East

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2011A February Congressional Research Service report entitled, Political Transition in Tunisia, openly described the current revolutionary wave sweeping across the Middle East thus:”The Tunisia…

  • Bin Laden Death

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2011Imagine the following events…For the last several years, a certain nation–any nation, in any part of the world–has become known for such activities as…

  • Surveillance Rules Set To Expire

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 7th, 2011Today, The American Spark offers its readers a quick reminder that some of the most sweeping expansionsof federal surveillance power may soon expire.But those…

  • Mubarak Tortured Egyptians For Years

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2011Human Rights Watch (HRW) just released a damning report regarding the police state of Egypt’s current tyrant, President Hosni Mubarak.Among other crimes, the study–entitled,…

  • Let Assange Speak For Himself

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 19th, 2010There’s currently a lot of wild-eyed screaming from the corporate media about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Thus we at the American Spark…

  • Experts Admit Wikileaks Mission

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 10th, 2010″Executive secrecy is one of the monarchial customs…and [is] certainly fatal to republican government… How can national self-government exist without a knowledge of national…

  • International Code Private Security

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 27th, 2010This month in Geneva, Switzerland, over 20 private security contractors (PSCs) are slated to meet with representatives from governmental and non-governmental groups from across…

  • FBI Faulted For Investigations

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 21st, 2010The FBI from 2001 to 2006 conducted probes of non-violent U.S. activists, classifying their actions of civildisobedience as “acts of terrorism,” according to a…

  • Us Secrecy Costs Hit Record High

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2010Federal officials in 2009 charged taxpayers a record $9.93 billion to pay for the classification of activitiesperformed by both government and industry, according to…

  • Government Secrecy Risks Lives

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 26th, 2010White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the documents on Afghanistan released today by WikiLeaks”pose a very real threat” to American forces–even as he…

  • Top Secret America

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 19th, 2010A massive and largely unaccountable spy network created by the U.S. government shortly after 9/11 now is sohuge that it may be impossible to…

  • Us Detainess Medical Experiments

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2010Last month, a white paper released by the medical group Physicians for Human Rights discussed a harrowing matter:”Investigation and analysis of US government documents…

  • Us Intelligence Update Failing

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 7th, 2010The intelligence reform law which created a National Intelligence director and was to integrate and modernize America’s spy community has in many ways been…

  • Memo On Recording Interrogations

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 22nd, 2010An important Pentagon directive was released in May, apparently meant to ensure the public that future interrogations of those in U.S. military custody follow…