Remember the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)? Here’s how I described it back in 2007. CIFA is, along with the National Security Letters Congress is now cracking down on, probably the biggest abuse of civil rights and privacy BushCo has hatched up. It was designed to gather intelligence on threats to defense installments in the United [...]

I’m beginning to agree with Rayne’s comment of the other day that the only explanation for the length of the WaPo series on contractors is to please the Pulitzer committee. The other most (perhaps more) likely explanation for the style of the piece is that editors have tried so hard not to piss off the [...]

The AP story on the Salt Pit death makes it clear that–at a time when Dusty Foggo was Executive Director of CIA–he was involved in an internal review of the death. The current U.S. official insisted that the case was adequately scrutinized. The official also said a CIA accountability review board was held in connection [...]

Okay, it’s been a busy day. But I thought I’d throw out this little tidbit just to lighten your afternoon. On page 86 of this FOIA packet, a CIA MFR from a May 6, 2004 briefing on the Abu Ghriab scandal records Duke Cunningham’s outrage that DOD had not informed the House Intelligence Committee of [...]

Tommy K got a pretty tough sentence yesterday for bribing Duke Cunningham. But will we every learn just why he was allowed such a generous plea deal?

Did Brent Wilkes, facing heavy jail time because he lied about his finances to get a public defender in his second case, flip on Dusty Foggo?

The Probation Office has recommended that Brent Wilkes receive a sentence of sixty years. You think this virtual life sentence will get the attention of all the other Bush cronies getting corrupt contracts through bribes?

Tommy K, Duke Cunningham’s mysterious briber, has been placed “in custody” for apparent ongoing lawbreaking.