Update: Here's the full interview with William Binney and Russell Tice...
CIA Desperately Trying to Keep Secret Pre-Benghazi Operations
This CNN report details secret efforts by the CIA to aggressively interrogate and polygraph a number of CIA agents who were on the ground in Libya just prior to the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 that got four Americans killed at the consulate building. It even...
Jeremy Scahill on the Manning Verdict and Obama’s War on Journalism
See my latest piece at The Huffington Post: Bradley Manning Revealed Crimes Far Worse Than the Ones He Supposedly Committed.
Senate Committee Classifies Votes on Approved Syrian Rebel Arms Plan
Here's a riddle: How do you make it easier to push through legislation in Congress that is overwhelmingly opposed in the public without any political consequences? Answer: Keep the votes secret. That's exactly what's happened to an Obama administration plan to provide...
Chris Christie, John McCain Have Rand Paul in Their Crosshairs
The GOP leadership is engaged in rank ideological policing. Increasing numbers of Republicans are deviating from the neo-conservative platform and Rand Paul is at the top of the naughty list. The headlines were ablaze last week when the conspicuously rotund New Jersey...
Civilian Casualties Increase 23% in Afghanistan, the Purposeless and Never-Ending War
A UN report documents 1,319 civilian deaths and 2,533 injuries in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2013, a 23 percent increase over the same period in 2012. The study finds "a 14 percent increase in deaths, 28 percent increase in injuries and 23 percent increase...
Government: We’re At War With [Redacted]
Robert Golan-Vilella at The National Interest notes that the government has a long list of dangerous enemies threatening America, all of whom fit under the language of the 2001 AUMF. But...that list is classified. A number of senators have pledged in recent months to...
Obama’s Asia-Pivot Makes Conflict More Likely: Philippines Edition
One of the predictable consequences of Obama's Asia-Pivot is that, by boosting support to all of China's U.S.-allied neighbors, those countries are emboldened to stand up to China as an enemy and China is likewise emboldened to counter the onslaught. Needless to say,...
Why Today’s Vote on NSA Surveillance is So Important
Earlier this week I noted with approval Rep. Justin Amash's effort in the House to add an amendment to an upcoming defense appropriations bill that would block NSA's "indiscriminate collection" of Americans’ telephone records by "limit[ing] the government’s collection...
Obama’s Other Secret War…in Somalia
The Obama administration is violating international law and United Nations resolutions in conducting its largely secret war in Somalia. At Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch writes that, "the Obama administration earlier this year expanded its secret war in Somalia, stepping...


