(by Graeme Dobel, The Strategist, Australian Strategic Policy Initiative) John Howard didn’t have too much support from Australian intelligence in deciding to go to war against Iraq. The Prime Minister got just enough cover from the Office of National Assessments to meet political needs. Beyond politics, though—as a basis for war—the Oz intelligence supporting war was […]
By Patrick G. Eddington …. Eight years after Mr. Meshal’s rendition, his case ended up before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The questions hanging over the proceeding were: can the United States government allow, or even facilitate, the rendition of an American citizen to another […]
October 31, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – When I was a kid, three presidents told us we had to fight in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, because if we didn’t fight them over there, we’d have to fight them on the beaches of California. We believed. It was a lie. I was a teenager during the […]
FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley and Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern sit down with news analyst, Ron Steele to present specific questions individuals should ask presidential candidates. VFP Iowa Chapters sponsored the Rowley/McGovern speaking tour in September. The tour sought to raise the level of Iowans understanding of current national security issues. The tour also focused […]
Edward Snowden warned an Iowa City audience Monday of the dangers of the public becoming more accountable to the government at a time when the government is becoming less accountable to the public. “The real danger here is that mass surveillance doesn’t actually keep us safe, it puts us at greater risk of harm, ” Snowden told an […]
A notable leak to the press could result in prosecution. National security whistleblowers and their supporters say whoever leaked a batch of classified documents about the U.S. government’s drone warfare efforts to The Intercept should brace for the fury of federal prosecutors. The Intercept says articles it published Thursday are based on classified slides from […]
EN) Short version. Complete video can be watched here: https://youtu.be/W7Lia8caiZM Video shows an event of German peace and civil rights organisations, that took place in Lutherkirche Südstadt Cologne (http://www.lutherkirche-koeln.de) on September 18th, 2015. Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray are members of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (V.I.P.S., http://warisacrime.org/vips), a group of former high-ranking U.S. […]
UNHINGED: American Terror, Torture, & Treason Robert David Steele Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program by Porter Goss et al, Naval Institute Press, 352 pp., £14.99, September, ISBN 978 1 591 14587 5 Broken!: A true story of terror, torture, and treason, in fictional form […]
Torture defenders are back on the offensive publishing a book by ex-CIA leaders rebutting a Senate report that denounced the brutal tactics as illegal, inhumane and ineffective. Now, in a memo to President Obama, other U.S. intelligence veterans are siding with the Senate findings and repudiating the torture apologists. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran […]
Neocon dominance has grown so strong in Official Washington that old lessons about the hazards of ill-considered wars are forgotten and must be painfully relearned, a message from Ron Paul’s new book, Swords into Plowshares, as described by retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce. By Todd E. Pierce Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul lays out […]