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Commentary: The Military-Intelligence Complex

November 5, 2019November 4, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump’s agenda. The choice of the noun “Resistance,” of course, conjures up not mere “opposition,” but is meant to evoke the French “resistance” of World War II – in the melodramatic sense of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump.

Commentary: The Sophisticated Intelligence Operation to Destabilize and Overthrow the American Government

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Americans outside the Beltway have been struggling for almost three years to figure out what’s been going on in Washington, what to call it and how to explain it.

National Security Agency ‘Unmaskings’ Skyrocketed Last Year

May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Chuck Ross The National Security Agency (NSA) disclosed the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. residents and businesses to American intelligence officials last year through a legal — but controversial — practice known as “unmasking,” according to a report released Tuesday. The number of unmaskings — 16,721 to be…

Prosecutors: Reality Winner Faces ‘Longest’ Sentence Ever Imposed For Media Leak

August 17, 2018August 16, 2018 Admin

by Chuck Ross Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner’s 63-month prison sentence will be the “longest” ever served by a federal employee in a case involving leaks to the media, prosecutors said Tuesday. Winner, who worked for an NSA contractor based in Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty in June…

Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Former CIA Director John Brennan

August 15, 2018 Admin

The security clearance of a former Central Intelligence Agency director has been revoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said in a statement that John Brennan has been sowing “division and chaos” about his administration. The clearances of other former officials also are under review, including those of former National…

Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Report On Russian Meddling In 2016 Election

July 4, 2018July 3, 2018 Admin

by Chuck Ross The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is endorsing a January 2017 report from three intelligence community agencies that found the Russian government, with the approval of Vladimir Putin, attempted to influence the 2016 election. The Senate panel released a summary report on Tuesday, two weeks before…

NSA Deletion of Call Records Raising Questions

July 1, 2018June 30, 2018 Admin

The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The NSA’s bulk collection of call records was initially curtailed by Congress after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden…

NSA Contractor ‘Reality Winner’ Pleads Guilty In Leak Case

June 27, 2018June 26, 2018 Admin

by Will Racke Former National Security Agency contractor Reality L. Winner pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending a media outlet a classified document pertaining to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A former Air Force linguist, Winner is the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for…

Commentary: The Left Attacks Fred Fleitz, The New Chief Of Staff At President Trump’s NSC

June 3, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by George Rasley By a quick count of search returns it appears we’ve quoted our old friend Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst, State Department aide, staffer for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, FOX News regular and author of the must-read book Obamabomb: A Dangerous and Growing National Security…

The Crisis of Confidence in the United States’ Intelligence Community Reaches New Heights

May 26, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Printus LeBlanc The FBI is in serious trouble, not just the people in the bureau that lied to the Office of Inspector General, fixed the Clinton investigation, and spied on a political campaign. The American people are losing confidence in the bureau. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich stated in…

NSA Tripled The Amount Of Surveillance It Conducted In 2017

May 7, 2018May 6, 2018 Admin

by Eric Lieberman The National Security Agency (NSA) tripled its collection of Americans’ phone call and text message records in 2017, according to U.S. intelligence agency report published Friday. The federal surveillance agency gathered 534 million records in 2017, a 151 million increase from 2016. The government “has not altered the…