Subject: Espionage and Intelligence

• Protecting California from Grannies

  State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this does answer the question of how long it takes news from Orange County to reach the world of San Francisco television– seven months– because Nick Schou wrote about this investigation in the

  March 1, 2006

• Dianne Feinstein's Profile in Courage

  There was nothing surprising in the careful analysis on Glenn Greenwald's blog, Unclaimed Territory, of the gutless way Senate Democrats are scuttling away from Senator Russ Feingold's (D-Wisconsin) resolution to censure President Bush for his administration's illegal wiretapping program. Democrats have been surrendering to Republicans, whenever Republicans wave their National Security Fetish Doll, since the days when Edward R. Murrow wished viewers Good Night and Good Luck. So there was nothing

  March 15, 2006

• Wanted (sort of)

  Remember President Bush's steely determination to get Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive? Turns out he meant we'll get him, if we happen to bump into him. The New York Times reports this morning that "The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants". The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decisio

  July 4, 2006

• Memories (wiretapping edition)

  There was something very familiar about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judicary Committee yesterday. As Think Progress summarizes yesterday morning's highlight: Earlier this year, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is charged with investigating attorney misconduct, announced that it could not pursue an investigation into the role of Justice lawyers in crafting the NSA warrantless wiretapping program because it was denied s

  July 19, 2006

• Can You Hear Me Now?

  In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained. --from Federal District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's ruling issued today declaring the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional and ordering an immediate halt to it. In a similar recent case, a federal court

  August 17, 2006

• Numbers (Five Years Later)

  From a list compiled by the UK newspaper, The Independent: 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001 0 Hours of intelligence training

  September 11, 2006

• MLK Day and the Bush administration

  One of the things that fuels the belief of some people in some sort of government conspiracy in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the fact that Army Intelligence (along with the usual suspects, the FBI, etc.) was monitoring Dr. King. And now, just in time this year's MLK day comes news that the Bush administration is taking legally dubious steps to make it easier for the Army to spy on American citizens. The New York Times reports: Deep into an updated Army manual, the deleti

  January 15, 2007

• Goat Boy: Not So Dead Edition

  With the global economy teetering on the brink of self-destruction, America still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Pakistan, the LA Times about to fire the 75 people who somehow haven't been fired yet, and the Angels out of the race for the pennant, it's about time for a feel-good human interest story to raise our spirits, isn't it? Good news, folks: according to CNN, Adam Gadahn, the goat farm-bred, Orange County-raised American face of Al Qaeda is still alive and well, despite rumors

  October 7, 2008

• The Few, the Proud, the Spies

  July 15, 1999

• Letters

  July 29, 1999

• Letters

  October 26, 2000

• Daily Brief with Ray McGovern

  February 19, 2004

• Ridley Scott's 'Body of Lies' Is the Post-9/11 Tech-Savvy Terror Thriller We Deserve

  October 9, 2008

• Our Man in San Salvador

  August 29, 2002

• Pearl Harbor

  Michael Winterbottom gives Mariane and Daniels story A Mighty Heart

  June 21, 2007

• Svengalis

  May 10, 2007

• Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

  January 15, 2004

• The presidents conservative critics

  May 13, 2004

• The Spy Who Loved Me

  July 21, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Dr. Death Revisited

  April 28, 2005

• Dead End

  February 17, 2005

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Can Chris Cox rescue the CIA?

  July 22, 2004

• Our Man In Baghdad

  April 24, 2003

• It's the Economy, Stupid

  August 8, 2002

• Ashcroft to Mueller to Anybody Else

  June 13, 2002

• Long Arms of the Law

  May 30, 2002

• Patriot Games

  November 1, 2001

• Dr. Frankenbacher

  October 4, 2001

• Crack Cop

  July 19, 2001

• Objection!

  April 26, 2001

• Letters

  June 15, 2000

• Coxs Flaccid Report

  January 13, 2000

• The Phantom Menace

  July 15, 1999

• The Crack-UP

  November 12, 1998

• The Tatum Chronicles

  April 2, 1998

• What the Bellhop Saw

  June 18, 2009

• How Did Chung Get Away With Spying for China for So Long?

  In light of today's first-ever economic espionage conviction of Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 73, of Orange, it must be asked: How did the former Rockwell International and Boeing engineer get away with being a spy for China for so long? Born in China, Chung was employed by Rockwell in Downey from 1973 until its space unit was acquired by Boeing in 1996. He worked at Boeing's Huntington Beach offices until retiring in 2002. But then he returned as a Boeing contractor the next year and remained until Sep

  July 16, 2009