According to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 2010 the Department of Homeland Security considered the possibility of arming their border drones with "expendables or non-lethal weapons.” There are currently ten Border Patrol drones, the...
Usually one needs a hypothetical to make a point this clearly and strongly. Egypt's Freedom and Justice Newspaper, the privately-owned newspaper of the nation's former ruling party, has found itself completely out of luck today when they found out that the printing...
Thomas Drake after his speech The Restore the Fourth organization had a rally at McPherson Square in downtown DC on this July 4th afternoon. They had several excellent speakers - including Libertarian Party's Carla Howell, CEI's Ryan Radia, Cato's Julian Sanchez,...
The appalling hubris of the imperial mindset in Washington was on full display yesterday when the U.S. government apparently pressured the governments of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to deny a plane carrying Bolivia's Evo Morales permission to pass through their...
In the midst of continuing anti-government protests, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected the Egyptian Army's 48-hour ultimatum (by now passed) to either call for early elections or step down. On Monday, I noted the acknowledgement of the Morsi regime that...
Obama's trip to Africa is a propaganda crusade. As the president talks about growing economies and making electricity more available to the continent, he is all hush hush on what is actually happening in Africa with regard to U.S. policy. Namely, Obama has increased...
July 1 marked the first day in office for Clifford Sloan, newly appointed Guantanamo closure envoy. Shortly after his May address on counterterrorism, President Obama appointed Sloan to the Office of Guantanamo Closure in the State Department, a position that had been...
There is a bit of déjà vu happening in Egypt right now: as mass protests against the Morsi regime continue to grow, the Egyptian army gave the regime a 48-hour ultimatum, threatening direct military involvement in the political process "if the demands of the people...
I've noted the work of Webb and Murphy before here. They also claim, according to their sources, that Petraeus was intentionally ousted from the CIA through the deliberate public disclosure of his affair with Paula Broadwell.
