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…

  • 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…

  • 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…