by Chuck Ross Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner’s 63-month prison sentence will be the “longest” ever served by a federal employee in a case involving leaks to the media, prosecutors said Tuesday. Winner, who worked for an NSA contractor based in Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty in June…
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Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Former CIA Director John Brennan
The security clearance of a former Central Intelligence Agency director has been revoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said in a statement that John Brennan has been sowing “division and chaos” about his administration. The clearances of other former officials also are under review, including those of former National…
Read MoreSenate Intelligence Committee Releases Report On Russian Meddling In 2016 Election
by Chuck Ross The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is endorsing a January 2017 report from three intelligence community agencies that found the Russian government, with the approval of Vladimir Putin, attempted to influence the 2016 election. The Senate panel released a summary report on Tuesday, two weeks before…
Read MoreNSA Deletion of Call Records Raising Questions
The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The NSA’s bulk collection of call records was initially curtailed by Congress after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden…
Read MoreNSA Contractor ‘Reality Winner’ Pleads Guilty In Leak Case
by Will Racke Former National Security Agency contractor Reality L. Winner pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending a media outlet a classified document pertaining to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A former Air Force linguist, Winner is the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for…
Read MoreCommentary: The Left Attacks Fred Fleitz, The New Chief Of Staff At President Trump’s NSC
by George Rasley By a quick count of search returns it appears we’ve quoted our old friend Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst, State Department aide, staffer for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, FOX News regular and author of the must-read book Obamabomb: A Dangerous and Growing National Security…
Read MoreThe Crisis of Confidence in the United States’ Intelligence Community Reaches New Heights
by Printus LeBlanc The FBI is in serious trouble, not just the people in the bureau that lied to the Office of Inspector General, fixed the Clinton investigation, and spied on a political campaign. The American people are losing confidence in the bureau. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich stated in…
Read MoreNSA Tripled The Amount Of Surveillance It Conducted In 2017
by Eric Lieberman The National Security Agency (NSA) tripled its collection of Americans’ phone call and text message records in 2017, according to U.S. intelligence agency report published Friday. The federal surveillance agency gathered 534 million records in 2017, a 151 million increase from 2016. The government “has not altered the…
Read MoreCongress Slips CLOUD Act Into Lengthy Omnibus Spending Bill, Granting Authorities Even More Surveillance Power
House Republicans voted 256 to 167 to pass a $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page spending bill Thursday, which includes deep within the abyss of the bureaucratic legalese, a law that eases law enforcement’s ability to collect people’s information that is stored abroad.
Read MoreSpecial Counsel Mueller’s Use of ‘Parallel Construction’ May Run Afoul of Constitutional Protections
by Printus LeBlanc It seems like every day there is a chorus of officials celebrating Special Counsel Robert Mueller. If you dare question his integrity, you are to be banished to the gulags. However, with a little bit of research you will find out his career as a law…
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