Whistleblowers are often celebrated in retrospect, but rarely protected when they actually expose the crimes and abuses of powerful institutions. That contradiction sits at the heart of this remarkable discussion…
ScheerPost Staff In a recent episode of The Chris Hedges Report, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Chris Hedges to critically examine the Trump administration’s effort to brand Iran as the…
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
Posted by Joshua Scheer Welcome to Deep Focus, where former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou cuts through the fog of official narratives and answers your questions with the kind…
Guards are leaving federal inmates in restraints for hours and even, in dozens of cases, as long as a week. That’s just the latest finding on abuses pervading the system.
The time to transfer funding away from hardware and to counseling training is now.
The author’s break with the Democrats began when Obama’s administration sought revenge on him for blowing the whistle on C.I.A. torture. Now he has many more reasons.
Biden spurned the author’s strong case for a pardon while extending it over his entire immediate family, a crooked judge and a slew of others.
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy.
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.
After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs.
They were tortured by CACI employees over a period of several weeks using techniques including electric shock, stress positions, starvation, attack dogs, and humiliation through forced nudity.
This time around, Trump has elected to ignore the F.B.I. security clearance vetting process for the sworn member of Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group that served under the Nazis.
The Greeks don’t know anything about American domestic policy; nor do they care. But they do care about war and immigration.
By John Kiriakou / Consortium News President-elect Donald Trump this week stirred up the intelligence community with his picks of former Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national…
