Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.
The only way to change those in government, at least in our present construct, is at the ballot box. But hyper-partisanship has the country at each other’s throats with assassination in the air.
Here’s a look at the blighted prison system that Donald Trump took over from Biden, along with some new scandals that have already occurred since Trump’s inauguration.
Trying to stop the war in Ukraine, spreading fear among conservative politicians and carrying out diplomacy with North Korea, as the U.S. president did in his first term, all earn points.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections.
It’s an insurmountable conflict of interest to have the U.S. pardon attorney reporting directly to the Justice Department’s person in charge of prosecutions.
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border.