“No one left behind” sounds nice, but in America’s wars it usually only refers to Americans. Foreigners who risked their own and their family’s lives to help the United States are optional.But a small victory. After extraordinary outside...
FBI Threatens To Demand Apple’s iPhone Source Code, Digital Key
The FBI on Thursday threatened to raise the stakes in its legal battle with Apple, suggesting it could demand access to the iPhone’s source code and the electronic signature used to verify its software updates.Battle Over EncryptionAs part of the ongoing battle...
FBI Has New Plan To Spy on High School Students
The FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies as potential future terrorists, warning that such “extremists” are in the same category as ISIS.The FBI’s Preventing Violent Extremism in...
FBI and Access to NSA Data on Americans
Hear that hissing sound? That is the last gasps for air from the Bill of Rights. The Bill is one breath away from hell.The FBI has quietly revised its rules for searching data involving Americans’ communications collected by the National Security Agency.The classified...
You Should Care About Apple, Your iPhone, and the FBI
Yep, you should care. Very much. Hang up the phone and listen.What This is All AboutThe FBI wants Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in the December San Bernardino shooting. Specifically, the Bureau wants Apple to create...
Canada’s Changing Mission in Iraq
Think what it must be like to be one of America’s allies.You enjoy some trade, groove on uber-Americanos like Beyonce and Brad Pitt, and visit Disneyland. But then there’s America again at your cubicle, asking again that you join some coalition, get some...
State Dept Staffs Syria Ceasefire Violations Hotline – With Non-Arabic Speakers
Is there a better way to ensure no troublesome violations of John Kerry’s signature ceasefire in Syria get reported than by staffing the hotline where violations are to be reported by Syrians with non-Arabic speakers?Gotta love those clever gals and guys over at...
Justice Dept Grants Immunity to Staffer Who Set Up Clinton’s Email Server
You remember Bryan Pagliano, pictured above, the guy who ran Hillary’s IT during her 2008 presidential campaign. After Obama tossed Hillary the job of secretary of state, Hillary had Pagliano hired by the State Department. She also had him continue to administer her...
Brave Afghan Forces Kill Inside Hospital, for Freedom
Apparently a new feature of the modern war of terror is the shameless, blameless, overt targeting of hospitals, doctors and bedridden patients, all without the means of even modest self-defense.Following the American destruction of a Doctors Without Borders facility...
US Military Contractors Return In Droves to Iraq
America’s mercenaries smell the blood (and the money) and are returning to Iraq.Mercs are a great thing for the U.S. government, in that they aren’t counted as “troops,” or as “boots on the ground,” even while they are both. The...


