CIA & Intelligence

  • 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…

  • 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…