Prioritization of funding for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies decimates vital government agencies that are needed for functioning democracy For the fifth time since October 2023, the federal government faced yet another shutdown, thanks to congressional squabbling over the federal budget. The government has been running on a series of...

Current CIA director Gina Haspel described graphic acts of deliberate physical torture including the waterboarding of a suspected Al-Qa’ida terrorist under her supervision when she was chief of base at a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002, according to declassified CIA cables – most of which she wrote...