SchwartzReport: Is Justice Scalia Insane? Or Merely Possessed by the Devil?

When I read this interview I was stunned. I have never thought much of Scalia. Like Clarence Thomas I have always thought of him as first and foremost an ideologue, and as with Thomas there are also growing ethical issues involving him. But I really had no idea how very inappropriate it is for this …

Mini-Me: $75 Billion a Year, and US IC Still Cuts and Pastes Without Updating Years’ Old Information

Huh? US Intelligence Report a Cut-Paste on Chinese Missiles College students can be flunked for cut-and-paste reports, think tankers can be embarrassed, Defense News staff writers can be fired, but not, apparently, members of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). Most of its so-called “updated” report, 2013 Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, which …

Michael Hastings: In Memory — His Last Article — Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans While Betraying the Public Trust in Every Possible Sense of the Term

Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans Besides Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide.For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the …

Berto Jongman: Mike Haydon on TV “Security and Transparency a Zero-Sum Game” — Robert Steele Comments

Former CIA Head Warns David Gregory: We’ll Have To Be ‘Less Effective To Be A Little More Transparent’ Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told Meet the Press’ David Gregory on Sunday morning that security and transparency were a zero-sum game. “For part of my life, when I was running the NSA program, I thought lawful, …

SchwartzReport: US Supreme Court Unethical & Corrupt — As with the Congress, the Time to Flush the Court is Now

This is why the appointment of Supreme Court Justices matters so much. We now have a court which routinely favors corporations over individuals. Here is their latest decision, part of the Legalization Trend. Increasingly monopolistic practices that would previously have been illegal, are now the law of the land. We are becoming a country wh! …

Marcus Aurelius: Reuel Marc-Gerecht on NSA High Cost – Low Return — Robert Steele Comments

The Costs And Benefits Of The NSA The data-collection debate we need to have is not about civil liberties. By Reuel Marc Gerecht Weekly Standard, June 24, 2013 Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal …