The Pentagon announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary James Mattis has sent the White House his guidance on transferring new individuals to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Pentagon spokeswoman Cmdr. Sarah Higgins said Mattis “has provided the White House with an updated policy governing the criteria for transfer of individuals to the detention facility at U.S. […]
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The Spy Who Came Home…
Shortly after an evening nap, Patrick Skinner drove to the police station in the Third Precinct in Savannah, Georgia, wearing ill-fitting body armor. It was late December, and bitterly cold, and he figured that the weather would bring fewer shootings than usual but more cases of domestic abuse. “Summertime is the murder time,” he said. […]
The U.S. Quietly Released Afghanistan’s ‘Biggest Drug Kingpin” from Prison. Did He Cut a Deal?…
IN OCTOBER 2008, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration heralded the arrest of Haji Juma Khan on narcotics and terror charges. His capture, they said, dealt a punishing blow to the Taliban and the symbiotic relationship between the insurgent group and Afghan drug traffickers. Yet, unbeknownst to all but the closest observers of […]
Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2017…
World military expenditure is estimated to have reached $1739 billion in 2017, the highest level since the end of the cold war. After 13 consecutive years of increases from 1999 to 2011 and relatively unchanged spending from 2012 to 2016, total global expenditure rose marginally in 2017, by 1.1 per cent in real terms. This […]
The Iran Deal Is Still a Good Bargain…
The case against the nuclear deal with Iran is reminiscent of what Woody Allen once said: “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.” The agreement, critics insist, is terrible and doesn’t last long enough. Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, said on NPR Tuesday, “The problem […]
Police Release Body Cam Footage from Las Vegas Massacre…
Las Vegas police have finally released partial footage from police body cameras that showed officers nearing the hotel room where gunman Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of gunfire on concert-goers last October. The video released on Wednesday comes from officers Sgt. Joshua Bitsko and David Newton, the Las Vegas Journal-Review reported. The first officer to […]
Iran’s Secret Nukes? Scaremongering Netanyahu Strikes Again by Scott Ritter…
On Monday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an alarming presentation, allegedly based upon hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and files, detailing an undeclared Iranian nuclear weapons program that Netanyahu claimed to have been recently acquired by Israeli intelligence. If true, the Israeli intelligence coup appears to have exposed a significant element of […]
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Acting ICE Director to Retire…
Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), plans to retire in June, despite President Trump tapping him to lead the agency permanently. Homan will announce his retirement on Monday at a ceremony hosted by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, where he will receive the foundation’s Law Enforcement Leader of the […]
Admitted MS-13 Illegals Placed Around the Country…
Loopholes in immigration laws being squeezed by the Trump administration but embraced by the Obama administration have allowed youthful illegal immigrants who self-identified as MS-13 gangbangers to be placed around the country instead of sent home, according to newly released documents. Unlike illegal criminals who avoided border security, those cited by Senate Homeland Security and […]
Took an Ancestry DNA Test? You Might Be a ‘Genetic Informant’ Unleashing Secrets About Your Relatives…
You just wanted to find out if you were Portuguese or Spanish, but instead you found out you were related to a mass murderer. This is a reality in a world where the alledged Golden State Killer, now known as Joseph James DeAngelo, was arrested after DNA found at one of the killer’s crime scenes […]
Deputy Union Resoundingly Votes ‘No Confidence’ in Broward Sheriff Scott Israel…
A deputies’ union on Thursday decided it has “no confidence” in Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, citing crushed morale amid national criticism of how the agency handled its response to the Parkland school massacre. The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association revealed 85 percent of the union members who voted — 534 out of 628 — […]
FISA Court Denied Record Number of Spy Warrants in 2017…
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2017 rejected a record number of spy warrants, according to statistics released Wednesday to Congress. The court approved 71 percent of surveillance applications submitted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2017, according to a report from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. That’s down significantly […]
Ex-Cop Suspected in 12 Murders, 45 Rapes Caught by DNA…
More than 30 years since the East Area Rapist committed one of the most heinous unsolved crime sprees in U.S. history, including at least 12 murders and 45 rapes, a cold-case DNA match led to the arrest of the man who terrorized communities across California from 1976 to 1986, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph James DeAngelo, […]
Stunning Police Reports Highlight Broward County Sheriff Officers Hiding Behind Cars, Trees During Parkland School Shooting…
Despite multiple court maneuvers by officials within Broward County Florida, details of the severity of Broward County Sheriff’s Office cowardice are beginning to surface. There were ‘several’ Broward County sheriff officers immediately on the scene during the Parkland school shooting, and none of them attempted to enter the school and engage the shooter. Reports written […]
Sex Cult Leader Allison Mack ‘tried to recruit Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson’ to Women Branding NXIVM Sect…
Smallville actress Allison Mack reportedly tried to lure high-profile feminists Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson into her disturbing sex cult in a series of ominous tweets. The 35-year-old is accused of recruiting slaves into the secretive Nxivm cult before its founder Keith Raniere allegedly subjected them to humiliating acts. Raniere’s and Mack’s initials were branded […]
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Comey Confirms: ‘There is a deep state in this sense…’
Speaking to the crowd, Comey said: ‘There is a deep state in this sense. There is a collection of people, CIA, NSA, FBI in the United State military services who care passionately about getting it right, who care passionately about the values we try to talk about. ‘No matter how they vote or how they […]
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Mexico: 100 ‘Viacrucis Migrante’ Travelers Reach Border Town…
About 100 members of the “Viacrucis Migrante 2018 (Migrant’s Way of the Cross)” caravan arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border town of Mexicali on Tuesday. The group of travelers, who piled into multiple buses, is expected to seek asylum from the United States, to the dismay of U.S. President Donald Trump, the organizer of the journey […]
CIA Declassifies Memo on Nominee’s Handling of Black Site Interrogation Tapes…
President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, “acted appropriately” in carrying out orders to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations at a black site prison in Thailand, former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell says in a newly declassified memo. The CIA released the memo on Friday as part of its unusually public campaign to help […]
Allison Mack Released on $5M Bond…
Allison Mack is to be released on $5 million bail today and will be on home arrest – cyber monitoring – and will reside in California with her parents pending trial. Her parents put up their home and Mack herself put up her retirement account as bail. She was arrested Friday and spent the weekend […]
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Broward County Deputies Schedule No-Confidence Vote for Sheriff Scott Israel…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association has scheduled a no-confidence vote for Sheriff Scott Israel over his behavior during the lead-up to and aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, union president Deputy Jeff Bell announced Friday. The union is accusing Israel of “many instances of suspected malfeasance, misfeasance, failure to maintain fiduciary responsibility by the […]
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