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Government Monitoring of Journalists, Then and Now
When the Central Intelligence Agency prepared its famous 1973 compilation of dubious and illegal Agency activities known as the “Family Jewels,” it included several instances in which reporters were tracked or monitored in order to identify...Show More Summary
Historian William Z. Slany, RIP
William Z. Slany, the former Historian of the Department of State and a champion of efforts to declassify the secret history of U.S. foreign policy, passed away earlier this month. Dr. Slany served in the State Department’s Office of the Historian for 42 years, and was The Historian for the last 18 of those years, [...]Show More Summary
Sex Crime Spree Clouds Academy Graduations
On the eve of President Obama's commencement address to the Naval Academy's Class of 2013, military lawyers worked out final procedures for the general court-martial of a history instructor charged with raping a female midshipman
Guns And Terror In Great Britain
The Telegraph: In the first terrorist murder on the British mainland since the 7/7 suicide bombings of 2005, the men attempted to behead the soldier, hacking at him like a “piece of meat” in front of dozens of witnesses, before both were shot by police who took around 20 minutes to arrive. After the killing, [...]
Unable To Obtain Fire Superiority?
Via WRSA, Max Velocity has an interesting article up on the inability to obtain fire superiority. The whole article is worth reading, but this part struck me. So back to the bolt action rifles in the original question: there is no reason why such weapons cannot be used to suppress the enemy, particularly if their [...]
SWAT Team Rams Wrong Man’s Car
In a slight twist of the SWAT team raids the wrong home theme, Austin American-Statesman has this report. Driving in the early morning hours to his job at a metal shop in Buda, Miguel Montanez at first thought the approaching lights were a school bus or a tow truck. But Montanez says it was a [...]
The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced
From NPR. None of this is a surprise to any of my readers, but the main thing to recognize is that when they refer to trace, they mean trace it to a gun dealer. So a serial number gets traced to a wholesaler, who then can trace it to an FFL, who then (unfortunately) has [...]
Church And Mr. Tacticool
I was working in South Carolina this week and staying with my son and his family in upstate S.C. I attended worship this Sunday at his church (I won’t mention the name of the church), and there he was. Mr. Tacticool (if I am not mistaken, Mauldin Police Department). He was awesome, with fatigues, Kevlar [...]
Gun Laws: Let The Market Speak
David Codrea: Daniele Perazzi, president of the Italian Perazzi Shotguns firm, was taken into custody yesterday by Adams County Deputies [see update, below] along with several prototype shotguns. The executive was picked up in the parking lot of the Denver Merchandise Mart, hosting the high-end Colorado Gun Collectors show this weekend, after a taxi driver, [...]
Long Range Navy ISR - Smart Choices
I had started a reply to a comment from Hokie_1997 in Galrahn's post below, but it became too long, so I'm using the blogger's prerogative to reply here. The Triton's flight is a very positive development towards filling current and projected gaps in long range Navy scouting. Show More Summary
International Security and Relations Network: The Fighter You Have
The development, entry into service and widespread worldwide use of the United States' controversial new stealth fighter is, by now, a foregone conclusion. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), produced by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, has been in full-scale development for 11 years -- and low-rate production for six. Show More Summary
Reporter Deemed “Co-Conspirator” in Leak Case
In a startling expansion of the Obama Administration’s war on leaks, a federal agent sought and received a warrant in 2010 to search the email account of Fox News correspondent James Rosen on grounds that there was probable cause the reporter had violated the Espionage Act by soliciting classified information from a State Department official. [...]Show More Summary
