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The former British ambassador to Poland has an insider's response to Julian Assange's leaks: Nothing much smaller and faster than a...

I don't understand why the major media companies that printed excerpts from Wikileaks have not set up mirror sites for all the raw docum...

Richards J. Heuer The Wikileaks story broke while I was away for Thanksgiving. My own views seem to differ from most of what I've rea...

From JFK's address to the American Newspaper Publisher's Association at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on April 27, 1961: The...

To the BBC. 30 November 2010   Last updated at  11:22 ET Help The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war in 1971, Daniel El...

Going on a Thanksgiving vacation, offline for a few days... Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers!

From the Yale Daily News (ht FOIABlog): lmost 40 years after renowned journalist and author Bob Woodward ’65 reported on the Watergate scan...

Thanks to a tweet from PetulantSage , here's a link to the November 15th US State Department Telephone Directory, on Box.Net. IMHO, th...

No surprise here. Not only is the UN possibly responsible for spreading cholera to Haiti, but NGOs are sitting on piles of unspent cash dona...

Cutting NPR was the top vote-getter on Republican House Whip Eric Cantor's "YouCut" website , I'm pleased to learn. Some p...

If true, it means that UN troops brought the cholera epidemic to Haiti--which has killed over 1,000 people so far... From Haitinews.net: A...

Here's a link to the ACLU online TSA complaint form: https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageNavigator/TSA_Travel_Complaint?JServSessionIdr004...

Israeli airline security expert Rafi Sela testified in Canada against full-body scanners (ht Ann Coulter): "I don't know why everyb...

From Eliot Cutler's op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: Finally, I am convinced that we lose something intangible but important wh...

I leafed through Jack Matlock's latest book, Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--And How to Return ...

Melanie Sloan Yesterday, I attended an interesting panel discussion about National Security and Open Government at the Carnegie Instituti...

Found this interesting PPT analysis presented at the Darden Business School on my LinkedIn account, sent by a friend: Understanding and Prof...

Happy Eid ul-Adha to our Muslim readers!

Link from the New York Times, to full report as PDF file, here: http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-no...

Official TSA video of airport security screening (ht Drudge)...