"I really don't know who WikiLeaks are, other than this Assange person." - NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander If you read through the transcript of NSA Director Keith Alexander's appearance on ABC this morning, you're mostly reading deliberately ambiguous nonsense and...
Iran War Weekly | June 23, 2013
This week's edition of Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly: Iran’s presidential election offers “the West” an opportunity to extricate itself from the dangerous political and military logjam it has created with its opposition to Iran’s nuclear program. The question,...
Edward Snowden, Booz Allen Hamilton, “NATO 3”: Connecting the Dots
Today's breaking news is that Edward Snowden - a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who released internal NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post - has fled to Latin America. He's been joined by Wikileaks employee Sarah...
REPORT: SNOWDEN HEADED FOR MOSCOW
The South China Morning Post is reporting: "Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and is due to arrive in Moscow by this evening, the South China Morning Post can confirm. "The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, who was last known to be hiding in Hong Kong,...
White House Petition to Pardon Snowden Reaches Goal of 100,000 Signatures
The White House petition calling for President Obama to immediately and unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for informing the American public about the NSA's surveillance schemes has reached its goal of 100,000 signatures today, and in less than two weeks. The...
Complaining About the Water? That’s Terrorism!
Tiny Maury County, Tennessee seems like a strange place to go looking for terrorism, but that's where we find ourselves focusing today. There's just something in the water in Maury County - or not depending on who you ask. Residents have been complaining about it for...
Pardon Snowden Now!
Earlier today, Antiwar.com Editorial Director Justin Raimondo published this letter: Dear Friend of Antiwar.com, When darkness begins to fall, some curse the shadows – and others turn on the lights. One man, a 29-year-old former spook and apparent libertarian, has...
Gitmo Hearing on Hold After Prosecutors Threatened Defense Lawyer
Death penalty hearings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees were quickly shelved today, and the courtroom ordered "cleared" during the defense lawyer's questioning of a former Gitmo prison commander Rear Admiral David Woods sparked an angry exchange with the...
John Stossel and The Wire Creator David Simon Think NSA Spying Isn’t a Big Deal Since the Drug War is Worse
Libertarian television show host John Stossel, and liberal creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire David Simon have reacted to the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal in a similar fashion - -namely, they suggest we stop worrying about it so much since...
The X-Ray Death Ray
Physics lesson time guys. So we've heard in the past 24 hours that: a) Some guys totally built an X-ray death beam to kill Obama and/or "enemies of Israel" b) Those guys were KKK but somehow pro-Israel too c) The whole thing was a "portable Hiroshima" that ran...
