Mel Goodman: CIA Directors’ High Crimes

The CIA’s Operation Deception A Spurious Challenge to the Senate Torture Report CounterPunch, 10 December 2014 CIA director John Brennan, having failed to block the release of the Senate intelligence committee’s report on torture and abuse, is now abetting the efforts of former CIA directors and deputy directors to rebut the report’s conclusions that the …

Mini-Me: US Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment — IMPLOSION — Comment by Robert Steele

Huh? The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment The game is changing rapidly. Can Washington’s intelligence community keep up? Josh Kerbel National Interest, 15 May 2014 Josh Kerbel is the Chief Analytic Methodologist at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He writes often and openly on the intersection of government (especially intelligence) and globalization. The views expressed in …

David Swanson: Three Images – Drone Bugsplat, Jesus on a Bench, Man vs. Machine

Three Images the World Needed Employees of the U.S. government refer to people they murder as “bugsplat.” They pretend that the men, women, and children they are killing with drones are just bugs, because they just look like little fuzzy creatures on a computer screen. Thank goodness for the artists who have put a giant …

Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Break Up NSA — Outline of Necessary Intelligence Reforms by Robert Steele

It’s Time to Break Up NSA Bruce Schneier CNN, 20 February 2014 Editor’s note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive. (CNN) — The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual …

Mini-Me: BENGHAZI – Hillary Lied, CIA Complied?

Huh? Did CIA official suppress Benghazi narrative? Accounts raise new questions By Catherine Herridge FoxNews.com, 14 February 2014 New information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own people in Libya that it …

David Swanson: Citizen Activists Against Drones as Crime Against Humanity in Court from Coast to Coast

Citizen Activists Across the U.S. in Courts This Week for Protesting U.S. Weaponized Drones WHO: Citizen activists from the east coast to the west coast will be in court this week defending their actions protesting the United States Military and Central Intelligence Agency weaponized drone program. WHAT: The first trial will begin Monday February 3 …