The National Security Agency Office of the Inspector General (NSA OIG) announced today its release of an unclassified study with disturbing conclusion: the secretive agency is not in compliance with legal requirements it to dispose of signals intelligence data. As exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA collects massive amounts of information (“metadata”) about the...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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The U.S. Government’s System for Declassifying Historical Documents Is in Crisis
After investigating the state of the JFK Records Collection at the National Archives in College Park Maryland, I have first-hand knowledge that Bill Burr is right. The American people are systematically denied access to their history, thanks to official secrecy. Burr, analyst for the non-profit National Security Archive at the George Washington University, writes: the...
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Why Trump’s Investigation of the Investigators Is Failing
For months, the names of Michael Horowitz and John Durham have figured in the pounding rhythms of right-wing media in which a heroically afflicted president faces down his perfidious enemies. A steady drumbeat of reports from Fox News, echoed by President Trump, Republican loyalists in Congress and media mouthpieces, proclaimed these two obscure Justice Department...
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Top Bolivian Plotters Trained by U.S. Military’s School of the Americas
Some relevant history and data points (ie,. nuance) on Bolivia from The Grayzone The late Philip Agee, a one-time CIA case officer who became the agency’s first whistleblower, explained in his 1975 tell-all book how US intelligence traditionally relied on the recruitment of foreign military and police officers, including embassy attachés, as critical assets in regime change...
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‘The Report:’ Torture Meets Truth in Obama’s Washington
For better and worse, “The Report” is a Washington movie, right down to its sanitized title. The credits hint it was originally called “The Torture Report.” A bureaucratic thriller starring Adam Driver as Dan Jones, an obsessed Senate investigator, the movie deploys the iconography of the capital—the looming Capitol dome, the expansive Mall, a cushy...