The Washington scholar who was cited by US leaders calling for a military strike on Syria, only to lose her job for fabricating her academic credentials, has been hired by the office of US Senator John McCain, Foreign Policy magazine reports. Elizabeth O’Bagy was formerly employed by the Institute for the Study of War, where she quickly became a respected voice on the ongoing conflict between Syrian... 

A new report written by Ambassador Andrei Krutskikh from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Oleg Ostapenko that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that use of the new Apple iPhone 5 constitutes a “grave threat” to all Russian citizens in that merely by its use, “all users have given up their rights to the United States Government.” Ambassador... 

A US National Security Agency employee has abused the US government’s spying tools in order to intercept phone calls of nine foreign women. According to internal files of the US spying agency, the NSA agent intercepted the calls from 1998 to 2003 and twice collected communications of an American without ever being noticed by his managers. The illegal abuse of the NSA’s spying tools was disclosed... 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh says that the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 is “one big lie” and that “not one word” of the Obama administration’s narrative on what happened is true. In a wide-ranging interview published today by the Guardian, Hersh savages the US media for failing to challenge the White House on a whole host of issues, from NSA spying, to drone... 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a short surveillance video of Aaron Alexis entering and sneaking through the Washington DC Navy Yard last week armed with a shotgun just prior to killing 12 people. The 31-second video, spliced together from CCTV images captured on the morning of September 16, show Alexis’ blue rental car driving into a parking garage across from Building #197 at... 

Hockey fans in Washington state will have more to worry about this weekend than avoiding a puck to the face: the Department of Homeland Security will be testing out a new facial recognition system at an arena this Saturday. The 6,000 seat Toyota Center in Kennewick, Washington will be the site on Saturday for more than just the Tri-City American’s season opener. In addition to hosting a junior ice... 

In a report that has gone virtually unnoticed in the mainstream press, D.C. police and firefighters who first arrived to assist at the Washington Navy Yard earlier this week say they were frustrated when their radios failed during inspection of the building, adding yet another strange development to the already questionable set of circumstances that took place that day. A union representative for... 

Rethink911.org billboard in Dallas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly considering those Americans who harbor “conspiracy theories” about the September 11, 2001 attacks as a potential terrorist. The FBI has instructed local police departments about the case in a circular, Digital Journal reported. “The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets... 

The Canadian government has come under fire over a controversial series of regulations that allow spying on cell phone users, Press TV reports. Cell phone companies in Canada, bidding on new contracts, face rules that force them to allow Canadian authorities to spy on mobile phone users under an unpublicized accord. For almost 20 years, Canadian telecommunications companies have been told that one... 

We recently came across a highly revealing report published on the 29th of January by the Daily Mail online. In it Louise Boyle, writes of a U.S. “backed plan to launch a chemical weapon attack in Syria and blame it on Bashar al-Assad’s regime”, months before the actual attack happened. Such a plan was also confirmed by Press TV on January the 30th and RT in June 2012, over a year... 

Elite tactical team responsible for defending DC Capitol complex were reportedly ordered to leave the scene. According to a BBC report, one of the most heavily armed police teams, assigned with the task of protecting the Capitol complex and responsible for responding to threats of terrorism, was ordered to stand down in response to Monday’s shooting at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters... 

The intelligence material gathered to prove the guilt of the Syrian government for the alleged use of chemical weapons was made ​​by members of the U.S. intelligence community to deceive President Barack Obama and convince him to take measure of punishment, according to Ray McGovern, a veteran of the CIA itself (Central Intelligence Agency), in an interview with the Russian news agency RT. McGovern... 

Poll: Less Americans trust government than ever before. Amid confusion caused when gunmen opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard in D.C. this morning, the White House attempted to take control of the situation by issuing an anonymous statement telling citizens to unquestionably obey orders from so-called “authorities.” “We urge citizens to listen to the authorities and follow directions from... 

Concerns are growing in Austria that the US National Security Agency has established a listening post in the capital Vienna to spy on people. Austrian opposition parties say a stately villa in a posh district of Vienna serves as a sophisticated US intelligence center, but the US Embassy in the capital claims the building is an “Open Source Center” evaluating information, The Associated... 

FBI maintains files to “memorialize controversial reporting”. Despite the FBI’s denial they were investigating Michael Hastings, newly released “heavily redacted” documents on the journalist prove otherwise. Al-Jazeera and FOIA research specialist, Ryan Shapiro, acquired the documents after he and journalist Jason Leopold filed a lawsuit against the FBI for neglecting to respond to their...