I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that there is gambling going on in this casino: "A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities...
NSA is ‘Collecting Everything’
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...
Where Does the MilitaryIndustrial Complex come from? Egypt?
"A military-industrial complex (MIC) is composed of a nation's armed forces, its suppliers of weapons systems, supplies and services, and its civil government." -- Wikipedia The U.S. MIC has evolved - - - SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Egypt -- the [Egyptian] military does...
Please Don’t Feed the Trolls
Noting Rosie Gray's ridiculously smug piece in that learned journal of policy wonkdom known as Buzzfeed, our own Lucy Steigerwald reflects on the burning question of why Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Justin Amash, "should-be friends to the whistleblower remained oddly...
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...
Congress Responds to Bradley Manning Conviction With Satisfaction or Silence
On Tuesday, Pfc. Bradley Manning was found guilty of a long list of crimes, and in a few hours comes the sentencing hearing, leading to what may be a very long prison term for the leaker and whistleblower. The one bright spot for Manning supporters -- and First...


