Surveillance with AI, robotics and drones threatens privacy and democracy. An independent technical group is needed to monitor U.S. government agencies, enforcing compliance with the Constitution and ending hidden, illegal programs.
The U.S. has weaponized intelligence agencies against U.S. citizens for political reasons. Today’s collection and exploitation of information on Americans goes beyond anything VIPS has seen and should stir every U.S. citizen who cares about privacy under the Constitution.
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) invites new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to consider its advice and offers her a selection of its past memoranda.
Seven-year old Consortium News in 2002 was one of the first outlets to reject the politicized intelligence for the disastrous Iraq invasion and has run circles around corporate media on Syria, from 2011 until today. But only with your help.
As the two major candidates for the U.S. vice presidency prepare to debate Tuesday night in Manhattan, veteran U.S. intelligence officials have some firm advice for them on Ukraine.
As war looms with Iran, in 2017, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans urged the U.S. stop false claims about Iran being the leading state sponsor of terrorism and a threat to the West.
No experience of the failure of policy can shake belief in its excellence, even though foreign adventures drained the treasury and led to imperial decline.
On the anniversary of the “assessment” blaming Russia for interfering in the 2016 election there is still no evidence other than showing the media “colluded” with the spooks, Ray McGovern wrote on Jan. 7, 2019.
CN has new editors, new writers, a new layout and a new webcast—but the same principles of its founding editor.
The lack of detail demanded by Pelosi may simply mean the absence of credible evidence of Russian interference as well as the absence of Clapperesque officials to conjure it up.