The Gary Null Show – 06.14.17

An insider account about the politicalization of the CIA and a culture of corruption Prof. Melvin Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington DC and an adjunct professor in international relations at Johns Hopkins University.  For 24 years—through the administrations of Johnson to Bush Sr—he had served in the CIA and the Department of State as a …

The Conspiracy Guy – 05.31.17

Conspiracy Guy Show #27: Newly unsealed FISA Court Order reveals that warrantless surveillances were being conducted by the Obama administration during 2016, including on the Trump campaign. What former CIA Director John Brennan and Barack Obama did to the integrity of our electoral process far exceeds anything that the Russians have undertaken. Indeed, the evidence mounts that Seth Rich will …

The Intelligence Hour with Kevin Shipp – 05.29.17

On this edition of The Intelligence Hour Kevin Shipp interviews former CIA Officer John Kiriakkou.  John was the first US official to blow the whistle on the CIA torture program, which the government said didn’t exist.  John considered the program torture and a violation of the US Constitution.  Because of his courage in coming out, John was arrested and sentenced …

Illuminating lies with brain scan outshines polygraph test

It has been demonstrated that when someone is lying, areas of the brain linked to decision-making are activated, which lights up on an fMRI scan for experts to see. While laboratory studies showed fMRI’s ability to detect deception with up to 90 percent accuracy, estimates of polygraphs’ accuracy ranged wildly, between chance and 100 percent, depending on the study. The …

PETER DALE SCOTT – CUBA: OPERATION NORTHWOODS, THE FORGOTTEN INSANITY

Introduction by Russ Baker: As we watch President Obama being warmly welcomed in Cuba, we think back to the secret, shameful things done in the past by the US to undermine Castro, not counting the various assassination attempts. This report lays bare one of the more hair-raising schemes. On March 13, 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed to President …

Amid Torture, Experts Say CIA’s Other Crime Was ‘Human Experimentation’ – Jon Queally

After the Central Intelligence Agency was given authority to begin torturing suspected terrorists in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, newly published documents show that another of that program’s transgressions, according to experts, was a gross violation of medical ethics that allowed the agency to conduct what amounted to “human experimentation” on people who became test subjects …

Ron Paul: CIA is a Secret Government Way Out of Control

While some may be cheering the expiration of the Patriot Act – however temporary it may be – former presidential candidate Ron Paul notes: before Americans applaud a minor step toward transparency, they should recognize the corrosive nature of the CIA, a secret government operating far above the law. “[The CIA] is sort of the President’s own Praetorian Guard,” Daniel McAdams, …