Quietly, almost invisibly today, National Security Agency Director Navy Admiral Mike S Rogers turned over his command to Army General Paul Nakasone. Together with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, a small but formal ceremony was held at Fort Meade, Maryland, on the same day the U.S. Cyber […]
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Bipartisan Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever…
ONE OF THE most outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failure to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. The fiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisions that appeared to both codify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess — namely, the power to hold individuals, […]
FBI Undercover Agent Was in Car Behind Terrorists and Failed to Stop Attack…
An FBI undercover agent encouraged a terrorist to “tear up Texas” before the 2015 Garland, Texas shooting, and was at the crime scene and failed to stop or engage the perpetrators. This was revealed in an investigation by CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday. The Garland shooting left two terrorists, Elliot Simpson and Nadir Soofi, […]
Union Pays for I-95 Billboard Expressing ‘No Confidence’ in Sheriff Scott Israel…
A union is ramping up its pressure on embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, paying for a billboard on Interstate 95 telling Gov. Rick Scott that “there is no confidence in Sheriff Israel.” The billboard is just north of Sunrise Boulevard and is visible to southbound drivers. About 85 percent of Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies […]
Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Trump for War…
It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all […]
What Does Iran Have to Do with the 9/11 Attack? Why Would a Judge Award Victims $6B in Damages?…
A judge in the US has issued a default judgement requiring Iran to pay more than $6bn to victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, court filings show. Monday’s ruling in the case – Thomas Burnett, Sr et al v. The Islamic Republic of Iran et al – finds “the […]
Mattis Offers New Criteria for Sending Inmates to Guantánamo…
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. […]
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 […]
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