Author Archives: WashingtonsBlog

Spying v. Privacy: An Ancient Battle The NSA, FBI and other government agencies are pushing to outlaw encryption.  And see this.  On the other hand, many Americans want privacy. This is the same battle fought by the Founding Fathers more … Continue reading →

By Shoestring, Shoestring 9/11 Blog. “Readiness is the name of the game and the ability of our people to respond is the second part of it.”– Admiral Robert Natter, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on September 11, 2001 … Continue reading →

By Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream. Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll?  Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things.  Thanks to … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg. U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government  extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS). The … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg. On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg. A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book of combat instructions, titled “Department of Defense Law of War Manual,” apparently covers rules of war for all branches of … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead, constitutional and human rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him … Continue reading →

Round 2 Comes Tuesday Fast track authority for TPP – which would have assured the passage of a horrible treaty – was voted down today. But Obama, Ryan and the powers-that-be are forcing Round 2 on Tuesday. Conservatives and liberals … Continue reading →

The hatred of the Trans Pacific Partnership is widespread and bipartisan. Here’s the front page of conservative Drudge: And the front page of liberal Huff Post: Unfortunately, neither Democratic or Republican Congress people represent the interests of the American people.  … Continue reading →

The House of Representatives is voting tomorrow to pass Fast Track authority for the horrible TPP treaty (it already passed the Senate).  If Fast Track is approved, TPP will quickly pass without amendment. TPP would destroy everything that America stands … Continue reading →

The House of Representatives is voting this Friday to pass Fast Track authority for the horrible TPP treaty.  TPP would destroy everything that Reddit stands for. But the mainstream media is censoring and ignoring the whole issue. At this point, … Continue reading →

Spencer Ackerman reports in the Guardian: The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone … Continue reading →

“Everything Secret Degenerates” Everyone knows Lord Acton’s famous quote: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But few have heard this equally profound quote from Lord Acton: Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is … Continue reading →

Terror Attacks Such As 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing and the Texas Shooting All Happened Because of Pervasive Corruption In Our Intelligence Agencies The highest-ranking NSA whistleblower in history – the former head of global intelligence for the NSA, 32-year … Continue reading →

Preface by Washington’s Blog:  Washington’s Blog is a non-partisan site.   We believe that the war between liberals and conservatives is a false divide-and-conquer dog-and-pony show created by the powers that be to keep the American people divided and distracted. See … Continue reading →

Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson- executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism – has spent years researching and writing about FBI terrorism “stings” on mentally retarded and destitute … Continue reading →

West Busted Supporting ISIS … Tries Instead to Point Finger At Syrian Government America’s closest allies have been busted supporting ISIS in order to topple Syria’s government.  Mainstream U.S. writers are calling for open support of ISIS and Al Qaeda … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead. Constitutional and civil rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “A person under surveillance is no longer free; a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy.”—Writers Against Mass Surveillance THE GOOD NEWS: Americans have a … Continue reading →

The International Business Times reports that the head of special forces chief in Tajikistan was trained by American mercenary company Blackwater, but has now joined ISIS. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill notes that Zacharias Moussaoui – the so-called “20th 9/11 hijacker” – … Continue reading →

The Patriot Act isn’t needed to keep us safe.  But politicians and natsec officials will go to tremendous lengths to terrify their people … to justify programs that are just a naked power grab. The fearmongering from the usual suspects … Continue reading →

Top investigative report Jeremy Scahill notes that Zacharias Moussaoui had the direct phone number for U.S. mercenary Blackwater’s training center in his notebook: Another mystery: Why'd Zacharias Moussaoui (so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker) have #Blackwater's number in his notebook? pic.twitter.com/iDJE9hesSW — … Continue reading →

It has been well-documented that the government conducted mass surveillance on Americans before 9/11. Now Diane Roark – the congressional staffer in charge of overseeing the NSA for the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee – says that NSA’s mass … Continue reading →

Government Will Use “Secret Interpretations” to Get Around Legal Prohibitions Mass surveillance under the Patriot Act is so awful that even its author says that the NSA has gone far beyond what the Act intended (and that the intelligence chiefs … Continue reading →

A Plan Decades In the Making Is Now Starting to Be Implemented We’ve previously noted that the powers-that-be have been planning for MANY DECADES to break up Iraq into several countries. And the same has been true for Syria. One … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead, constitutional and human rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my … Continue reading →

Filmmaker Rob Stewart sent me a review copy of his new award-winning film Revolution. Stewart’s previous film – Sharkwater – made a bit splash.  It won some 40 awards, and resulted in over 100 countries banning shark finning (killing sharks … Continue reading →

Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits. The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could … Continue reading →

Most Americans value privacy and oppose mass surveillance. The minority who don’t – and who think spying is okay because they have “nothing to hide” –  are grossly misinformed (and don’t know that spying is meant to crush dissent and … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead, Constitutional and civil rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of … Continue reading →

Hundreds of tech companies and digital rights groups – including Imgur, DreamHost, Namecheap, AVG, Mediafire, Internet Archive, BoingBoing, Piwik, Private Internet Access, and more than 200 others – signed a letter to Congress today stating: Criminalizing Journalism and Whistleblowing: TPP’s … Continue reading →

As the following excerpt from a new special from Frontline shows, the movie Zero Dark Thirty was CIA propaganda: By way of background, we’ve previously noted: The real winner of the 2013 Academy Awards is the CIA: Zero Dark Thirty, … Continue reading →

We’ve previously documented that – in many respects – American cops are more heavily armed than actual combat soldiers on the front line in war zones. U.S. police are often less disciplined than soldiers … and so therefore often more … Continue reading →

By Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream. During the Iraq war more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers died, countless others were severely injured, and the total cost to U.S. taxpayers was more than 2 trillion dollars.  But now whatever the … Continue reading →

Americans Don’t Trust the Government A poll released today shows that Americans across the political spectrum hate the Patriot Act and NSA spying. The bipartisan polling team – made up of Global Strategy Group and G Public Strategies – found … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, It’s not just those domestic extremists and crazy “conspiracy theory” kooks who took serious issue with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent overtly fascist language when it comes to freedom of expression in … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead, constitutional and civil rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who … Continue reading →

U.S. Has Already Started WWIII Top economic and political experts say we’re drifting towards World War 3. And see this. We noted in March that we’re already at war with Russia.  Many experts agree … Former White House official Dr. … Continue reading →

Cover-up? False flag? Wacky conspiracy theory? Watch and decide for yourself: Transcript and links here.

By Daniel Taylor, Old Thinker News. Special Ops Command seeks to “Operationalize” the homeland; “…informationally aware, smartphone‐enabled urban populations and their satisfaction—or lack of satisfaction—with local, regional, and even global conditions…” presents challenge to military. Is Jade Helm part of … Continue reading →

Making a Difference Mark Twain said: If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. In other words, if the government is not trying to stop something, it must not be very important. And then there’s vote manipulation.    … Continue reading →

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh’s new report shreds the CIA’s claim that torture led the U.S. getting bin Laden. Specifically, Hersh reports – and NBC news confirms – that it was not information gained through torture which pinpointed Bin Laden’s … Continue reading →

Pope Francis said today: Many powerful people don’t want peace because they live off war. *** Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms. *** It’s the industry of death. He’s right … Top economists say that … Continue reading →

Why Are Domestic Law Enforcement More Heavily Armed than Our Soldiers? Rafael Rivera – who served in the U.S. Army for seven years – writes: The police in Ferguson have better armor and weaponry than my men and I did … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, When the Jets paused to honor soldiers of the New Jersey Army National Guard at home games during the past four years, it was more than a heartfelt salute to the military — it … Continue reading →

By John Whitehead, constitutional and civil rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) “In a democratic … Continue reading →

And Obama Is Arguably More Hostile Towards The Press Than Any President In History The Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined. This administration has also obtained much longer jail sentences against whistleblowers than previous presidents. … Continue reading →

Is America Still a Nation of Laws? The Department of Justice claimed that it: reviewed the [Senate intelligence] committee’s full report [on torture] and did not find any new information that they had not previously considered in reaching their determination … Continue reading →

Americans’ pride in our country is legendary … or at least it used to be. The World Values Survey – a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an … Continue reading →

Saudi-Yemeni War More Complicated Than We Assume Trend forecaster Gerald Celente just made an interesting point in an interview with King World News: Most people don’t realize this but most of the existing workers in the Saudi oil fields are … Continue reading →

Obama HATES the Press A brand new Politico poll of White House correspondents finds: (1) 65% of reporters say that Obama is the least press-friendly president they’ve ever seen (2) 78% of White House reporters believe “President Obama dislikes the … Continue reading →

The Problem Isn’t Too Little Spying … It’s Too Much Top security experts agree that mass surveillance is ineffective … and actually makes us MORE vulnerable to terrorism. For example, the former head of the NSA’s global intelligence gathering operations … Continue reading →

Preface: Sadly, in the month since we last posted on this topic, many new examples of corruption have arisen. The Cop Is On the Take Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day … Continue reading →

By Michael Snyder. Barack Obama is secretly negotiating a global economic treaty which would destroy thousands of American businesses and millions of good paying American jobs.  In other words, it would be the final nail in the coffin for America’s … Continue reading →

The Intelligence Apparatus No Longer Protects Our Country From Terrorism … We Need Fresh Legs William Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information. A 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a … Continue reading →

Lindsay Graham and John McCain Have Never Used Email Lindsay Graham – a member of the powerful Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law – admitted 2 months ago that he has never sent an email in his entire … Continue reading →

Like Nazi and Soviet Psychologists, American Psychologists Aided Abuse While most psychologists are good people, tyrannies have always deployed corrupt psychologists to punish dissenters, and label them “crazy”. The Nazi government substantially supported psychologists … many of whom, in turn, … Continue reading →

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, In these drug-saturated neighborhoods, they weren’t policing their post anymore, they weren’t policing real estate that they were protecting from crime. They weren’t nurturing informants, or learning how to properly investigate anything. … Continue reading →

Crowdfund a Videocam So We Can See What’s REALLY Going On Intrepid American reporter George Eliason is living in – and reporting from – Ukraine. He’s risking his life to bring us unbiased, on-the-ground reporting in English … which we … Continue reading →

What’s Really Going On In Baltimore? Orazz points out: 10,000 Strong Peacefully Protest In Downtown Baltimore, Media Only Reports The Violence & Arrest of Dozens In any event, while the looting was unforgivable … it pales in comparison to the … Continue reading →

By Michael Snyder. Why did the Baltimore riots seem like they were perfectly staged to be a television event?  Images of police vehicles burning made for great television all over the planet, but why were there abandoned police vehicles sitting … Continue reading →