Apparently, the former Chief Justice of the secret star chamber Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has decided to do an interview with James Bamford who writes in The Atlantic (subscription required). In this article, Lamberth recounts a day in April 2002 when FBI agents come to is house to request an emergency hearing. This is […]

** update at end ** There has been a lot of talk about a story in Aviation Week & Space Technology about a mothballed DoD program for a single or two stage to orbit system called “Blackstar”. While it is clear the DoD and NASA have been investigating new ways to get to orbit, they […]

There is a lot of action in Pakistan these days. The press is focused on the rumor mongering and supposed tensions between Afghanistand and Pakistan, and no doubt this is one element in what is going on. I wrote recently about the military activities in the Taliban friendly norther provinces and the possible emergence of […]

John Hawkins (via Lorie Byrd at Polipundit) linked to this liberal cry-fest at DU. Just because America grew up beyond liberal-think these people are glad they have no kids or grandkids? You know, Darwin was right, those who cannot adapt die off. But this is pathetic. We conservatives see the world differently. We recognize the […]

My problem with Able Danger is it appears a high level, poitical appointee was able to use his power to destroy information that was personally uncomfortable, but critical to national security and which could have detected and avoided 9-11.  3,000 people died on 9-11, and it is plausible to assume if the partisan purge of […]

Follow the link at Decision 08 – an interesting read and only one hop away.

When the media called for a special counsel in the non outing of a non covert agent, Valerie Plame, they unleashed a precedent that they will forever regret. They set the bar so low on the subject of Valerie Plame’s CIA position (which was still too high for Fitzgerald to find any criminal act regarding […]

Stop The ACLU has been knocked off the net, possibly due to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.  John is blogging temporarily from a back up site (here) if you are looking for the site.