The White House finally agreed to allow lawmakers (not the public) to see the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel memo authorizing the use of drone strikes on civilians, the New York Times reports, but as a Sunlight analysis has shown, the administration is still withholding 37% of these crucially important legal opinions from public view (that were issued from inauguration in 2009 until March 2012).

The administration is even holding on to much older opinions. 39% of OLC opinions issued…

2012: When the Government Comes

Knocking, Who Has Your Back?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Second Annual Report

on Online Service Providers’ Privacy and Transparency

Practices Regarding Government Access to User Data

This is I think the last report, not sure if a new report is out yet.. But thought

some might find it interesting..

The link is to a pdf file on www.eff.org…

A rather long article by a retired Colonel of the US Army but, worth a reading. The write up appeared in the Small Wars Journal. The link to the article source is given below, at the end of the post.            

The U.S. Army’s…

     This extract: “50,000 people trying to flee Manchester for Wales, with 20,000 heading out of Liverpool”, is from a highly secret government document that has remained classified for over 30 years.  Dominic Sandbrook of the Daily Mail has written in today’s newspaper 25th February 2012; The…

The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

The…

16,000 guns ‘lost’ from manufacturing plants in last 2.5 years: report

We can't say we hadn't been warned !!!!

Catherine Austin Fitts told us all about it back in 2004 ...

Catherine Austin Fitts

Founder & President of Solari, Inc.

May 22nd, 2004

Transcription

Laura Ingraham

'In the interest of full disclosure sir, could we please have those records?'