Author: Impeach for Peace

Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely eavesdropped on the private telephone calls of American military officers, journalists and aid workers. NSA interceptors purportedly shared some intercepts of highly personal conversations, including “phone sex.” If the allegations…

Pamela Hess, The Associated Press A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and…

Nick Juliano, Raw Story The US military was using the same procedures employed at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison at other facilities inside the United States where US citizens and legal residents were detained, according to documents released Wednesday. At least one Navy officer was concerned that a detainee was being slowly driven insane by…

Editor & Publisher Staff The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will investigate a Department of Defense propaganda program to determine whether news networks or military analysts violated the Communications Act of 1934 and FCC rules. Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that a Department of Defense program had ex-military officers presenting…