To screams and protests from the American people, Congress overwhelmingly supported passage of the National Defense Authorization Act which, among other things, allowed for the indefinite detention of Americans without charge or trial should they be arrested or held under suspicion of loosely-based definitions for domestic terrorism. A super-majority 86% of Senators supported the measure, which was signed b ...

The family of a US government scientist who fell to his death from a New York hotel window six decades ago have launched a lawsuit for damages against the CIA, alleging the agency was involved in his murder and a subsequent cover-up. In one of the most notorious cases in the organisation's history, bioweapons expert Frank Olson died in 1953, nine days after he was given LSD by agency officials without his k ...

Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak is expected to receive a medal from the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta only days after announcing his resignation. Barak will receive the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service from his American counterpart on Thursday, when he will visit the Pentagon. 
 The Israeli media consider the medal as “the highest award he could be given b ...

Throughout its history, America always governed extrajudicially. Post-9/11, it became more repressive than ever. Modern technology makes it easy. Big Brother has lots of ways to spy. It can be done from space, eyes in the sky on drones, secret agents, neighborhood snoops, or electronic monitoring of phones, emails, and other personal communications. There's no way to hide. Privacy no longer exists. Constitu ...

Jim Thavisay is secretly stalking one of his classmates. And one of them is spying on him. "I have an idea who it is, but I'm not 100% sure yet," said Thavisay, a 25-year-old former casino blackjack dealer. Stalking is part of the curriculum in the Cyber Corps, an unusual two-year program at the University of Tulsa that teaches students how to spy in cyberspace, the latest frontier in espionage. Students le ...

During appearances to promote her David Petraeus biography, the author angled unsuccessfully for a regular TV presence -- but, according to a network source: "Something seemed off. She was creepy." The race is on to land an interview withPaula Broadwell, the author and Army reservist whose relationship with former CIA chief David Petraeus caused his downfall, and Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite whose com ...

Congo rebels appeared to be looting the central bank in Goma after refusing to withdraw from the city they captured last week. M23 fighters surrounded the bank early this afternoon and were seen loading white bags into cars. The armed rebels looked nervous and ordered the Guardian to leave the area. "They're looting the bank," a UN source said. Later another UN source denied that there had been money in the ...

Intelligence agencies routinely gather medical intelligence on the world’s political leaders. Officially, this information is used to ascertain the viability for continuation in office for leaders. However, there is a dark side to such intelligence collection. Medical intelligence also contains data on the status of a leader’s immune system and his or her susceptibility to a number of diseases or other exte ...

Cannabis Science, Inc. (NASD OTC: CBIS) has appointed Michael J. Goldblatt, Ph.D., the former Director of Defense Sciences at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Goldblatt holds extensive experience in successfully pioneering next-generation technologies, including host-oriented therapeutics for infectious disease.  He received his B.A ...

Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America's crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in unconstitutional invasions of privacy? Experts say neither question has been answered satisfactorily. Yet the federal government is rushing to open America's skies to tens of thousands of the drones - pushed to do so by a law championed by ...