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Why President Obama Refuses To Pardon Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard
As President Barack Obama traveled to Israel, more than 2,000 gathered outside Israeli President Shimon Peres' house to call for the release of dual American-Israeli citizen Jonathan Pollard.Pollard,...
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The US Embassy In Baghdad Cost A Staggering $750 Million (PHOTOS]
Ten years ago this week, Americans woke up to learn that the United States had invaded Iraq. They had been told it would cost $50 billion and that it would end soon.Forty-two days later the President...
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Why Turkey Would Be Furious If Russia Became The Savior Of Cyprus
Moscow and Cyprus are still negotiating terms of a potential bailout. Most will hail the crisis's receding if a deal is reached.But for Turkey, seeing Cyprus and Russia growing even closer together...
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'Human Weakness' Helped Chinese Hackers Steal Secrets From US Companies
Most of the espionage coming from these "sophisticated" Chinese hackers was actually victim activated.A cyber security company released a report last month detailing the exploits of a state-sanctioned...
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BY THE NUMBERS: The Staggering Cost Of The Iraq War
The Iraq War was so messy and costly that the best attempt to assess the sheer damage is through numbers.We drew from sources including various news reports, The Brookings Institute 's Iraq Index, and...
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F-22 Raptor Pilots Are Getting High-Tech Helmets
Although it is integrated in U.S. F-15C/D, F-16 Block 40 and 50 and F-18C/D/E/F, on the Eurofighter Typhoon and on several other modern planes (including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – with some...
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Initial Cost Estimates For The Iraq War Were Almost Too Low To Believe
The U.S. will shell out somewhere as much as $6 trillion dollars for the Iraq War, once all is said and done, according to a recent report out of Brown University.According to Reuters, that figure...
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America's 33 Years Of Failure In Iraq [PHOTOS]
America's rocky relationship with Iraq didn't start 10 years ago with the beginning of the war that would eventually oust Saddam Hussein.It didn't even start in 1990, following Saddam's invasion of...
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Pentagon Taking Over Drones Magnifies The CIA's Free Rein
Recently divulged plans to shift the drone program away from the CIA and solely into the hands of the Defense Department (DoD) highlights a huge issue about targeted killings by CIA drone pilots.Daniel...
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North Korea Threatens To Strike US Bases In Japan
The North Korean army on Thursday threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of nuclear-armed US B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea.The...
View ArticleBBC Weather's Twitter Hijacked By Pro-Assad Hackers
The BBC's official weather account — @BBCWeather — has been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a cyber clan that spreads propaganda in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.At about 9:00...
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TSA Denies Report That Officers Made A Marine Remove His Prosthetic Legs
According to a complaint filed with the Transportation Security Administration, airport security officers required a wounded Marine to remove his prosthetic legs and attempt to stand as part of a...
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CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It
On Wednesday, the CIA's chief technology officer detailed the Agency's vision for collecting and analyzing all of the information people put on the Internet.The wide-ranging presentation at GigaOM's...
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I Remember Calling My Father To Tell Him That He Was Going To War
A decade ago I would have never have imagined what today would look like.I was seventeen-years-old and riding up the southern California coast to Camp Roberts, a base that time forgot built of white...
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Newly Released Al-Qaeda Memo Talks Of Mini-Submarines And Sleeping Pills
Gay Pride Parades and tactics involving sleeper cells using sleeping pills recently emerged as subjects in previously secret Bin Laden compound memos.Requested from the Department of Justice by German...
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The Most Influential Voice Yet Warned Obama About 'Blowback' From Drones
This is a whopping "I told you so" moment for a decent handful of pundits and analysts: Army Gen. James E. Cartwright has expressed worry to Obama that drone strikes may cause "blowback."Mark Mazzetti...
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3 Dead, Including Suspect, In Shooting At Quantico Marine Base
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — Three people, including the suspect, were killed in a shooting at Marine Base Quantico, a base spokesman said.It began with a shooting around 11 p.m. Thursday that left one dead,...
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UN To Investigate Crimes Against Humanity In North Korea
The United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously approved a resolution to investigate possible crimes against humanity happening inside North Korea, reports the Washington Post.The measure, signed...
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Israel And Turkey End Three-Year Rift After Obama Sets Up Call
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a 2010 incident that badly damaged relations between the two countries, Reuters reports.In 2010...
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The Pentagon Wants To Build A New Prison At Guantanamo Bay
If the shutdown of the office tasked with closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility didn't convince everyone the infamous prison will remain for years to come, then plans for constructing a new...
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