National security

The GOP memo has been released – and it is as damning as promised

It must be all the cannabis that they are legally allowed to smoke in Washington, D.C. There has to simply be some sort of logical explanation for how a group of people involved in illegal activity launches an investigation into an opponent, when they must surely know this is going to blow up in their own faces.
Or, do they even know this, anymore.  Has the pot afflicted their brains so badly?

5G mobile data networks subject to nationalization by the US government

Axios News reports that the Trump administration is considering the prospect of nationalizing the forthcoming 5G network when it begins to be built in the United States.  Naturally, this idea is controversial, as private enterprise has been in charge of much of commercially used spread spectrum technology in the the USA for decades.
The proposal would limit itself to 5G networks only, and not to previous technologies or different ones.

Trump planning “private spy network” to counter “deep state enemies”

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Everything the Government and Media Told Us About Chelsea Manning Was a Lie

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  — The punishment should fit the crime. That’s what we’re taught to believe in this society. We’re told it’s a fundamental element of justice.
Chelsea Manning’s crime, if you believe what she did was a crime at all, was to bring attention to an ugly situation. To shed light on behavior that ran counter to her moral compass.

Despite Climate Of Fear, America Is Not Beset By Grave Threats

A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
WithDonald Trump in the White House, political divisiveness has reached new heights. Yet virtually everyone in Washington still agrees about at least one thing: The United States is beset by grave threats.

Bizarre Sexual Abuse Scandal Alleged At D.C. Spy School

Former US Congressman and Fox News regular Allen West speaks at from Florida speaks at the Daniel Morgan Academy in downtown Washington. (Photo: Vimeo)
A graduate school for would-be spies faces a civil complaint from three young men who say they endured rectal exams and other sexual abuse from a school official with a largely fabricated spy resume.