Tag: National security

“When it comes to security, when it comes to ISIS, when it comes to the military, every single category... I'm leading, like, by a lot." —Donald J. Trump

Or how I learned not to love Big Brother.

The summer of surprisingly political love.

Let’s also see this as a warning that the national security state has crossed a major line and needs to be unravelled.

The big question now is whether or not the Trump administration will appeal to the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals or ask the Supreme Court to intervene.

Six National Security questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., don’t want to answer and won’t even be asked.

Fourteen years later and we are still living in an improbable world. Tom Engelhardt discusses the wars, interventions, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings, the growth of the American national security state and the spread of Islamic extremism.

Although acting Director Joseph Clancy demoted four assistant directors, they are now free to resign or report for new assignments within the Secret Service or its parent agency, DHS. Has the Secret Service suffered from a lack of leadership?