Two weeks before Raytheon’s blimp escaped, a British military helicopter coming in for a landing at NATO headquarters hit a similar blimp’s tether. Five people, including two U.S. Air Force personnel, were killed.
Spy agencies still issue 60 or so National Security Letters daily.
Monday's guilty verdict in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on espionage charges -- for talking to a newspaper reporter -- is the latest milepost on the dark and dismal path Barack Obama has traveled since his inaugural promises to usher in a "new era of openness."
If you cut through the spin, the plan from the president will encourage companies to spy on users and give them a pass for terrible security practices.
The outrageous whitewash issued Wednesday by the CIA panel John Brennan hand-picked to lead the investigation into his agency's spying on Senate staffers is being taken seriously by the elite Washington media. But it's just the latest element in a long string of cover-ups and deceptions.
Powerful and unaccountable, the Lords of Secrecy, as Scott Horton calls them, are in charge of our national security state.
The Army is about to launch two massive blimps that can track cars, trucks and boats hundreds of miles away.
