By Jenna McLaughlin, Feb 10, 2017, at The Intercept IN 2010, THOMAS DRAKE, a former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun about a bloated, dysfunctional intelligence program he believed would violate Americans’ privacy. The case against him eventually fell apart, and […]
February 7, 2017 on Ray McGovern website Former NSA Technical Director William Binney gave an excellent interview to WBAI radio’s Randy Credico on January 31. What Bill has to say should be REQUIRED LISTENING for those who feel a need for a cogent explanation, in understandable, non-technical language, of how NSA has been playing fast […]
Inspired by fringe theories about Islamic civilization, Michael Flynn is leading Trump down a dangerous path. By PHILIP GIRALDI • February 9, 2017 on The American Conservative The United States is adding new sanctions on Iran over that country’s alleged misdeeds, and nearly all of those allegations are either out-and-out lies or half-truths. It has […]
CIA employees are not staging a coup against Donald Trump. By PHILIP GIRALDI • January 25, 2017, originally published at The American Conservative. It would never occur to ordinary CIA officers that derailing a presidency might be a desirable thing to do. The rumor of some kind of coup in the making is the creation […]
Exclusive: President-elect Trump is in a nasty slugfest with U.S. intelligence agencies as they portray him as a Russian tool and he blasts their attempt to delegitimize his election, says ex-British intelligence officer Annie Machon. (originally published January 16, 2017 at Consortiumnews.com) By Annie Machon The clash between plutocratic President-elect Trump and the CIA is […]
[Republished with permission from Whistleblowing Today] The Project on Government Oversight reports that a three-person panel authorized by Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive 19 concluded last May that the National Security Agency’s inspector general retaliated against a whistleblower. Based on that information, Director Michael Rogers sent IG George Ellard a termination notice. The IG, who is […]
The allegations that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction are lies. By Elizabeth Murray / AlterNet December 1, 2016 I retired in 2010 after a 27-year career with the CIA and for the first 20 years of my career, I was a senior political and media analyst with the CIA’s open source arm. That department […]
By John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News 21 November 16 resident-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Rep. Michael Pompeo (R-Kan.) sends a crystal clear message that Trump was telling the American people the truth when he said that he would bring back the torture program and do “a hell of a lot worse.” Pompeo himself said that […]
Demonstrators protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline have resorted to social media and outside news sources to get out their message as N.Dakota police reportedly use tear gas, water cannon and concussion grenades, says political analyst Elizabeth Murray . Police have reportedly deployed water cannon on the protesters, many of whom were trapped on a bridge […]
Published on RT Op-Edge, and Consortium News. During the seemingly endless US election, a few months ago Donald Trump said at a convention that NATO is not a gift that America can keep giving. In his stated view – at the time – the other member states should be expected to make a greater financial […]