With all the news this week over the Nunes Memo and the resignation of Andrew McCabe, it's easy to forget that the Trump Administration isn't America's only enemy. The Russians, who aided and abetted him in stealing our election, have not been duly punished, and show no signs of ...read more
Yesterday, as the press corps visited the White House to hear briefings on immigration from senior officials, Donald Trump unexpectedly showed up to answer a few questions. Just before he left, he made one of the most egregious off-the-cuff remarks of his presidency thus far: ...read more
This week, Donald Trump will oversee the release of the last batch of secret documents related to the Kennedy Assassination. But don't let him and his cronies fool you - this was not a decision Trump made himself. As part of the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of ...read more
In an interview with Megyn Kelly for NBC News, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to pull some shit, as the kids say, by suggesting that Russia is being framed for the hacking of 2016 election by American hackers: "Hackers can be anywhere. They can be in Russia, in ...read more
In an article penned by Dianne Feinstein and Ben Cardin, two Democratic Senators known for their intellectual heft as members of the foreign and intelligence committees, both expressed concern regarding President elect Donald Trump’s conduct and approach to national security ...read more
In his never ending crusade to rid America of moderate liberals and anyone who doesn't believe Ed Snowden is the second coming of Jesus Christ, Glenn Greenwald has been doing the media rounds desperately attempting to prove that Obama and the Democrats have been lying about the ...read more
The escalating crisis over the potential hacking of the US election by the Russian government is being made all the worse by America's fractured media system and its extremely divided political culture. Despite the competing narratives from both sides of the aisle, right now, ...read more
This is big news. Really, really big news. From the New York Times: Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks ...read more
In what can only be described as a horrifying revelation, Joe Scarborough disclosed last night that he had spoken to a foreign policy expert sent to advise Donald Trump and learned that the Republican candidate had repeatedly asked why America isn't using nuclear weapons on its ...read more
One of the major rallying cries of Donald Trump's campaign for President is his pledge to commit war crimes against America's enemies. Not only has Trump promised to murder the families of suspected terrorists, he has stated that he will bring back waterboarding - a torture ...read more
This week, the New York Times published a bombshell of an op-ed demanding that the Obama administration "prosecute torturers and their bosses," specifically Bush officials up to and including former Vice President Dick Cheney. It's probably the first time in recent history that ...read more
Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) are rightfully angry over allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) infiltrated its secret computer network and monkeyed with sensitive documents pertaining to the committee's investigation of the CIA's ...read more
Edward Snowden's infamous leak of NSA surveillance programs is still regarded as one of the biggest government scandals in recent memory, and has further exacerbated the already stressed levels of trust the American people have with their government. In the wake of this ...read more
They're still trying to find something rotten inside Edward Snowden's bottomless cup of NSA documents, and yet they're coming up short every time. The Glenn Greenwald modus of hyping previously-known information or documents that aren't nearly as outrageous as they're made to ...read more
Dick Cheney will rightly go down as one of the most despised figures in American political history. The ruthlessly cold neo con was one of the major architects of the Iraq War and the 'War on Terror', and used his power in office to do an astonishing amount of damage at home ...read more
All eyes are on the horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon today. As far as we know, 2 people are dead and another 22 injured (and the numbers are likely to grow). We cannot be sure whether the blasts were acts of terrorism, but given there were two separate explosions and a ...read more
I've said this sort of thing before many times. Matt Taibbi's said it. David Cross does an entire bit about it. But no matter how often it's repeated, there are still those out there on the left who live in their own little epistemic bubble and don't seem to get something: ...read more
Paula Broadwell, the biographer and alleged mistress of ousted CIA Director David Petraeus. By Ivan Eland: Nothing titillates the nation’s capital like a sex scandal masquerading as a policy controversy. The American news media will use any excuse to get into public officials’ ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — The sex scandal that felled CIA Director David Petraeus widened Tuesday to ensnare the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, in a suddenly public drama involving a Tampa socialite, a jealous rival, a twin ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — Your emails are not nearly as private as you think. The downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus demonstrates how easy it is for federal law enforcement agents to examine emails and computer records if they believe a ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: Gen. David Petraeus has resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, MSNBC reports. MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell broke the news Friday afternoon, reading Petraeus' resignation letter on air. Petraeus wrote in the ...read more
By Melvin A. Goodman: Nearly two months ago, on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, a group of militants attacked the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. The Romney campaign has accused the Obama ...read more
William Boardman: News bubbles are essentially the same as housing bubbles, stock bubbles or tulip bubbles – the longer they last, the more detached they become from recognizable reality. Like any other bubble, the current Benghazi news bubble started growing when a few people ...read more
By Ivan Eland: One of the most important issues in the 2012 election is a non-issue because both parties want to ignore it: punishment for Bush-era human rights violations by torture. Nevertheless, in a country where the rule of law (that is, we are all supposed to be equal ...read more
And this is why President Obama is wrong when he so quickly wants to turn the page on the abuse of this country by George W. Bush and Co. Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that CIA officials misled Congress 'for a number of years' since ...read more
