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Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning
Know Your History: Google Has Been a Military-Intel Contractor from the Very Beginning Levine’s investigative reporting on the connection between the Silicon Valley tech giants and the military-intelligence community has been praised by high-level NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, and many others. [See my interviews of Drake here: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … […]
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Washington, D.C.— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term “deep state” accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight. “Absolutely, there is a […]
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants?
Tell Me More About How Google Isn’t Part Of The Government And Can Therefore Censor Whoever It Wants? When you tell an establishment Democrat that Google’s hiding and removal of content is a dangerous form of censorship, they often magically transform into Ayn Rand right before your eyes. “It’s a private company and they can do […]
How ‘Operation Merlin’ Poisoned U.S. Intelligence on Iran
How ‘Operation Merlin’ Poisoned U.S. Intelligence on Iran The CIA’s “Operation Merlin,” which involved providing Iran with a flawed design for a nuclear weapon and resulted in an alleged whistleblower going to prison, was the perfect example of creating intelligence in order to justify operations, reports Gareth Porter. Jeffrey Sterling, the case officer for the CIA’s […]
Agitprop Is Not News
Agitprop Is Not News Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustratedswimsuit shoot. The lede said: […]
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World
U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World Privatized and politicized intelligence is undermining the mission of providing unbiased information to both high-level decision makers and the American public, explains George Eliason in this first of a three-part series. Back in 1991, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the general consensus of the […]
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State? The House Intelligence Committee’s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern. With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by […]
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House Recent revelations of “inadvertent” deletions of electronic data at the FBI and NSA relating to alleged felonies are being described as a “foul-up,” but the intelligence agencies’ track record suggests a possibly more nefarious explanation, explains Ray McGovern in this op-ed. We learned in recent days that the FBI […]
Intelligence Insider Warns Of Imminent War: “Likely In The Next 12 Weeks… The Director Of The CIA Told Me”
Intelligence Insider Warns Of Imminent War: “Likely In The Next 12 Weeks… The Director Of The CIA Told Me” Having worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies over the last two decades, James Rickards was once asked to simulate asymmetric economic attacks on the U.S. financial system. He is an expert at escalation scenarios and end […]
Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote
Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote During an appearance on the Liberty Report last week, Dr. Ron Paul interviewed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the rise of the Deep State and how intelligence agencies are threatening Americans’ freedom. But in the closing moments of that interview, Snowden surprised […]
What Could Go Wrong?
What Could Go Wrong? “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn’t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking. One thing that used to occupy the center […]
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s ‘deep state’ reached a new intensity this week as special interests battled for control of Washington. The newly […]
Someone Has Officially Called the CIA’s Bluff over Russia
Someone Has Officially Called the CIA’s Bluff over Russia The scapegoating of Russia is now so widespread, Dirty Wars author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill took to The Intercept to call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on its bluff. In the article, “Obama Must Declassify Evidence Of Russian Hacking,” Scahill and Jon Schwartz called out U.S. intelligence agencies for their […]
