The New York Times is reporting Former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism operation. Current CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers about Cheney’s role in keeping the program secret on June 24...
On Wednesday, Andreas Mueller, the Swiss federal Magistrate, recommended the prosecution of three Swiss engineers, supposedly linked to the CIA, upon allegations of nuclear weapons technology smuggling. Urs Tinner, his brother, Marco, and his father, Friedrich, appeared before Mueller following...
Andrew Warren, the former CIA chief for Algeria, is under investigation for allegedly drugging two women before sexually assaulting them and photographing them on two separate occasions. The investigation is being conducted by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service. Warren has told...
The CIA World Factbook is one of the richest resources ever produced by the United States Government. It includes data in the form of website that was formerly produced in print. It provides a two to three page summary of demographics, geography,communications, linquistics, government,economy,...
I'd say it's time to review the CIA's process in deciding what contractors they pay to do what. That especially after its been revealed they paid millions of dollars to Blackwater CEO Erik D Prince on a handshake to become part of a plan to assasinate former CIA operative Osama Bin Laden, and other...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
In light of the recent release of 250,000 U.S. cables by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, the CIA has created a Wikileaks Task Force, dubbed W.T.F., to track the impact of the cables. The Washington Post was first to report that "Officially, the panel is called the Wikileaks Task Force. But...
Based on the information printed on the CIA World Factbook, the government spending on the military is extremely huge worldwide. Based on the figures, military spending all over the world is pegged at 741 billion dollars a year. The figure itself is approximately about 1.5% of the world’s Gross...
People around the world have been smoking marijuana for thousands of years while also using the hemp plant for everything from fabric and rope to ethanol fuel. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, a man with a bit of power and enough determination decided pot was wicked, evil and narcotic. He...
Politics is a dirty business and politicians don't come any dirtier than Dick Cheney. He's a man who delights in operating on the 'dark side' and is the Darth Vader of American politics. However, is it going too far to accuse him of "crimes against humanity"? That term has quite a narrow and specific...
